Apple menu - wikipedia Apple menu This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2010 ) The Apple Menu in OS X 10.10 ( Yosemite ) The Apple menu is a drop - down menu that is on left side of the menu bar in the classic Mac OS, macOS and A / UX operating systems. The Apple menu 's role has changed throughout the history of Apple Inc. 's operating systems, but the menu has always featured a version of the Apple logo. Contents 1 System 6 and earlier 2 System 7.0 -- 9.2. 2 3 macOS 4 References 5 See also System 6 and earlier The Apple Menu in System 6.0. 8 with MultiFinder enabled, showing the installed Desk Accessories In System 6.0. 8 and earlier, the Apple menu featured a Control Panel manager, as well as Desk Accessories such as a Calculator, the Scrapbook and Alarm Clock. If MultiFinder ( an early implementation of computer multitasking ) was active, the Apple menu also allowed the user to switch between multiple running applications. The Macintosh user could add third - party Desk Accessories via the System Utility `` Font / DA Mover ''. However, there was a limitation on the number of Desk Accessories that could be displayed in the Apple menu. Third - party shareware packages such as OtherMenu added a second customizable menu ( without the trademarked Apple logo ) that allowed users to install Desk Accessories beyond Apple 's limitations. System 7.0 -- 9.2. 2 Mac OS 8.6 's Apple Menu System 7.0 introduced the Apple Menu Items folder in the System Folder. This allowed users to place Alias ( es ) to their favorite software and documents in the menu. The Menu Manager forced these additions into alphabetical order, which prompted users to rename their aliases with leading spaces, numbers and other characters in order to get them into the order that suited them the best. Several third - party utilities provided a level of customization of the order of the items added to the Apple menu without having to rename each item. The Apple menu also featured a Shut Down command, implemented by a Desk Accessory. An alias to the Control Panels folder was also present. System 7.0 was also the first version to feature the rainbow striped logo, as opposed to the black logo found in previous versions. In System 7.0, the black logo was retained in grayscale modes, and was used when the Monitors control panel was set to display `` Thousands '' or `` Millions '' of grays, though the rest of the display was in color. System 7.0 featured built - in multitasking, so MultiFinder was removed as an option. The feature allowing users to switch between multiple running applications as in System 6 was given its own menu ( appearing as the icon of the active application ) on the opposite side of the menubar. Beginning in Mac OS 8.5, this new menu was given a unique `` tear - off '' capability, which detached the menu from the menu bar to become a free - floating window when the user dragged the cursor downwards off the bottom of the menu. In this case, it ran the application called `` Application Switcher ''. System 7.5 added an Apple Menu Options control panel, which added submenus to folders and disks in the Apple Menu, showing the contents of the folder or disk. Prior versions of System 7 showed only a standard menu entry that opened the folder in Finder. Apple Menu Options also added Recent Applications, Recent Documents, and Recent Servers to the Apple Menu ; the number of Recent Items was editable by the user. MacOS macOS ( previously Mac OS X and OS X ) features a completely redesigned Apple menu. System management functions from the Special menu have been merged into it. The Apple menu was missing entirely from the Mac OS X Public Beta, replaced by a nonfunctional Apple logo in the center of the menu bar, but the menu was restored in Mac OS X 10.0. The quick file access feature implemented in System 7 was removed, although a third - party utility, Unsanity 's FruitMenu, restored the Apple menu to its classic functionality until it stopped working with the advent of OS 10.6 ( Snow Leopard ). The Apple menu is now dedicated to managing features of the Macintosh computer, with commands to get info on the system, update software, launch the Mac App Store, open System Preferences, set Dock preferences, set the location ( network configuration ), view recent items ( applications, documents and servers ), Force Quit applications, power management ( sleep, restart, shut down ), log out, etc. References Jump up ^ OtherMenu, Last modified : 22 November 2008, James Walker 's Mac Stuff See also Start menu Classic Mac OS Versions System 1 System 2, 3, and 4 System 5 System 6 System 7 Mac OS 8 Mac OS 9 Applications Calculator Chooser Drive Setup DVD Player Finder Graphing Calculator Keychain Access PictureViewer PowerTalk QuickTime Player Network Browser Scrapbook Sherlock Software Update Stickies System Information SimpleText Developer HyperCard MacsBug Macintosh Programmer 's Workshop ResEdit Technology Alias Appearance Manager Apple menu At Ease Balloon help Bomb Error Command key ( ⌘ ) Control Panel Control Strip Creator code Extensions Hierarchical File System HFS Plus Keychain Labels Macintosh File System Menu blinking MultiFinder Option key ( ⌥ ) OSType PICT QuickDraw QuickTime Resource fork Sosumi sound Startup Screen System folder System suitcase Type code WorldScript Related articles Manager Toolbox Memory management Old World ROM New World ROM EFI Software macOS History Architecture Components Technologies Server Software Versions Server 1.0 Hera Public Beta Kodiak 10.0 Cheetah 10.1 Puma 10.2 Jaguar 10.3 Panther 10.4 Tiger 10.5 Leopard 10.6 Snow Leopard 10.7 Lion 10.8 Mountain Lion 10.9 Mavericks 10.10 Yosemite 10.11 El Capitan 10.12 Sierra 10.13 High Sierra Applications Automator Calculator Calendar Chess Contacts Dashboard Dictionary DVD Player FaceTime Finder Game Center Grapher iTunes ( version history ) Launchpad Mac App Store Mail Messages Notes Notification Center Photo Booth Photos Preview QuickTime Reminders Safari ( version history ) Stickies TextEdit Time Machine Discontinued Front Row iChat iPhoto iSync Sherlock Utilities Activity Monitor AirPort Utility AppleScript Editor Archive Utility Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange Boot Camp ColorSync Configurator Console Crash Reporter DigitalColor Meter Directory Utility DiskImageMounter Disk Utility Font Book Grab Help Viewer Image Capture Installer Keychain Access Migration Assistant Network Utility ODBC Administrator Screen Sharing System Preferences System Information Terminal Universal Access VoiceOver Discontinued Software Update Remote Install Mac OS X Technology and user interface AirDrop Apple File System Apple menu Apple Push Notification Service AppleScript Aqua Audio Units Bonjour CloudKit Cocoa ColorSync Command key Core Animation Core Audio Core Data Core Foundation Core Image Core OpenGL Core Text Core Video CUPS Cover Flow Darwin Dock FileVault Fonts Gatekeeper Grand Central Dispatch icns iCloud Inkwell I / O Kit Kernel panic Keychain launchd Mach - O Menu extra Metal Mission Control OpenCL Option key Preference Pane Property list Quartz QuickTime Quick Look Smart Folders Speakable items Spotlight Stacks System Integrity Protection Uniform Type Identifier Universal binary WebKit XNU XQuartz Deprecated Carbon HFS+ Discontinued BootX Brushed metal Classic Environment Rosetta Spaces Xgrid Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apple_menu&oldid=827368225 '' Categories : Classic Mac OS Mac OS user interface MacOS user interface Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from October 2013 Articles needing additional references from January 2010 All articles needing additional references Talk Contents About Wikipedia Türkçe 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 24 February 2018, at 08 : 57. 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Question: where do you find the apple menu on a mac
Answer: left side of the menu bar