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Big Sur brings a revamp for those funny little icons that sit at the top– right of your screen challenging you to remember what they do without the aid of text. Obviously, text would take up too much room. Cleverly, Big Sur spaces out the icons, taking up too much room. It’s no good complaining to us, we don’t make the rules. Fortunately, it’s now easier to turn these little helpers on and off, and with many of them duplicated in the new Control Center, off can be a very practical option. Meanwhile, notifications and widgets have a whole new relationship. Aww.
DRAG RACE
Here’s a cool feature of Big Sur’s Control Center that you may not have noticed. Click the icon with the little sliders to drop down Control Center, then click any panel within it and drag it up to the menu bar. It turns into a little icon that you can drop in any position you want, pushing the others aside, and you can now access this feature directly from the menu bar. The same feature is still in Control Center too, though, which seems a bit pointless. So just drag it off Control Center and drop it. See what happens? Nothing. You can’t remove the default Control Center items.