How to Disable Menu Icons in macOS Tahoe Using Terminal Command
By
soheilpro
2mo ago· 1 min readen
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Summary
The article discusses a Terminal command that disables menu icons in macOS Tahoe, which the author finds cluttered and inconsistent. The command 'defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO' removes most icons while preserving useful ones like window controls, requiring app relaunch to take effect.
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Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them:
Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe: defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO
It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize.
I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding
