In Tahoe, if you print a doc, you’ll be left with a black underlay menu bar icon. This is not just an icon that sits there telling you a print job is underway. No, it’s persistent. It will stay there until you perform two clicks to get rid of it. Two clicks that have to be very well aimed because the target is rather tiny. And this has to be repeated every single time you print.
Head over to Settings > Menu Bar and you’ll be surprised to see there’s not even a mention of Printers or Print Center. Still shocked from this MS-esque paradox, you fire up Print Center to find the option to turn this pervasive menu bar indication off. Ha! Joke’s on you because no such option there either.
Interesting. I’d never it noticed before. Probably because on my machine (MBP M5 Pro, macOS 26.4.1), the icon disappears on its own roughly 10-15 seconds after the print job finishes (i.e., when the green checkmark in a circle appears in that menu bar icon). No click needed.
Mine won’t go away, that’s how I noticed. I have to actively dismiss it. Even if it’s been minutes since the job completed successfully.
Wonder if that could be related to our networked printing and how they set up our print servers — the word shaky comes to mind.
I can confirm - that icon disappears from my menu bar when the print job completes (as does the printer icon that shows up in the menu bar as the print job is in process.)
Mine doesn’t go away until I click on it. If I print three jobs, there are three of them. I am using a printer server on my desktop computer, so all printing goes through there.
