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Wifi icon missing in menu bar IOS Catalina

I have repeatedly turned on and off the "Show WIFI Status in Menu Bar" box selection in preferences (it DOES show while preferences box is open, disappears once closed) but cannot get it to remain in the menu bar.


Any fix?


MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 19, 2019 6:35 AM

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Posted on Dec 19, 2019 6:49 AM

Here are the instructions for resetting NVRAM and SMC:


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


To start in Safe Mode, immediately press and hold the Shift key after pressing the power button.

Safe Mode is slow. That is normal. It clears a number of system caches and loads only essential services.


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Dec 19, 2019 6:49 AM in response to TheLegalGuy

Here are the instructions for resetting NVRAM and SMC:


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


To start in Safe Mode, immediately press and hold the Shift key after pressing the power button.

Safe Mode is slow. That is normal. It clears a number of system caches and loads only essential services.


Dec 19, 2019 7:27 AM in response to TheLegalGuy

TheLegalGuy wrote:

I have no idea how to Reset NVRAM, reset SMC.



Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app


You can try Relaunching the Menu Bar from the Terminal.app using this command line, simply copy and paste:

killall -KILL SystemUIServer




use the enter/return key to complete

quit terminal.


You can do this on the fly, no restarting required,

Wifi icon missing in menu bar IOS Catalina

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