Menu bar icon mystery

[michanne99]

Hello,
There is a menu bar icon i do not recognize. It looks sort of like a >< in a circle off center. (Could this be apple support?) I can't do anything with it (tried command drag). It doesn't do anything. How do find out what it is and/or get rid of it?



Thanks!

#everparanoid

 

[harryb2448]

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Think it may be, iPhone location icon or Google Sync icon or 'iSync' icon. If you don't want it, hold down Command and drag it to the desktop and 'poof; it will be gone. It may have got there if you migrated from an older Mac or operating system. Hopefully you will be able to recognise what it is from.

 

[pm-r]

If it doesn't move with a command+drag, it's not anything from Apple.

Is there any indication shown if you right-click or left-click or just hover with your pointer on the icon or provide any info?

 

[viply1]

Can you list the applications installed on your comp?

 

[IWT]

It's a tiresome way of doing it, but if you open Finder > Applications, all your apps are listed with a small icon adjacent. Scroll through slowly and see if you can identify it.

If you have the Applications alias in your Dock (to the right of the marker), you can click on that to see larger versions of the icon. Ditto of you open Launchpad.

I can't think of another way, sorry.

Ian

 

[ferrarr]

Also, check your Login Items in System Preferences > Users & Groups.

 

[pm-r]

It's a tiresome way of doing it, but if you open Finder > Applications, all your apps are listed with a small icon adjacent. Scroll through slowly and see if you can identify it.

If you have the Applications alias in your Dock (to the right of the marker), you can click on that to see larger versions of the icon. Ditto of you open Launchpad.

I can't think of another way, sorry.

Ian

Or alternately use Find Any File, an essential app IMHO, and do a search for all items that "ends in .app" and scroll through the list. They'll show up regardless where they might be installed on the selected volume.
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

I don't know if the icon size can be changed for viewing, and unfortunately not all apps that can display a menu icon use the same icon as the app.

 

[IWT]

Good point, Patrick. Find Any File and EasyFind are indispensable to me.

Ian

 

[donhalt]

I often have the same problem remembering icons on the menu bar.
Is there a simple way to add a PopUp label to each icon? I am using Sierra.
Is there possibly something in the App Store?

 

[Ember1205]

That looks like the Microsoft Remote Desktop "Remote Resources" icon.

 

[pm-r]

I often have the same problem remembering icons on the menu bar.
Is there a simple way to add a PopUp label to each icon? I am using Sierra.
Is there possibly something in the App Store?

I don't know if Sierra is any different, and I don't know how many menu bar icons you actually have, but if the developer has followed the OS X GUI Guidelines, then mousing and pausing over the menu bar icon should reveal its name or provide some indication as to what it does…

An odd thing about this is the fact that many of Apple's own menu bar icons don't even follow their own GUI Guideline rules and need a click at least to get them to wake up.

PS: How many do you have active that you can't remember them all, or do you seldom use some of them??? ;D





- Patrick
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[ferrarr]

I only have four non Apple icons, and only two of those show their names with mouse over, the other two have to be clicked on.

 

[Rod]

What happens when you click on it? Not much feedback from the OP here.

 

[TheWineLover]

Can you identify this one?

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what this icon is to in my MacBook Air status bar. Running macOS Sierra. Must be third party because it won't drag out of the bar.



So whatcha think it might be?

 

[KevinJS]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what this icon is to in my MacBook Air status bar. Running macOS Sierra. Must be third party because it won't drag out of the bar.

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So whatcha think it might be?

That's CAPS LOCK

 

[Rod]

Personally I don't know what that is but usually if you hover your cursor over any menu bar icon, and it might take a minute, it will say what it is. I assume you have tried left and right clicking on the icon itself?

Aha Kevin, you beat me. Of course.

 

[Slydude]

Check your System Preferences and look at the setting in the Accessibility features. I'm having trouble reproducing things but I think that is the setting for sticky keys.

 

[KevinJS]

Personally I don't know what that is but usually if you hover your cursor over any menu bar icon, and it might take a minute, it will say what it is. I assume you have tried left and right clicking on the icon itself?

Aha Kevin, you beat me. Of course.

I can't take the credit for that one. We had a thread in the last couple of weeks where the symbol was identified.

 

[ferrarr]

I thought it was identified as the eject button when an external optical drive was connected?

In the other thread, I thought it was an upload button.

 

[TheWineLover]

Oh that's hilarious @KevinJS! But why on earth do the Apple folks think we need an icon for that? I wonder if it can be turned off somewhere?