Get rid of the MobileMe sync icon in Leopard’s menu bar

2 Oct
2008

Phew, the title took more to write than what the post really should contain, that is:
SystemUIServer
Keep Command key pressed while dragging the Sync icon out of the menu bar.

Now, why would you do this? Maybe, like me, you have a fresh Leopard install and you NEVER use MobileMe, and you want to declutter the menu bar. Easy, ain’t it?

41 Responses to Get rid of the MobileMe sync icon in Leopard’s menu bar

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Giovanni

October 10th, 2008 at 1:21 am

So easy, so cool :)
Thank you

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Matt

October 13th, 2008 at 6:47 am

Thanks!

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jonas

October 15th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

Awesome! easy peasy

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huski

October 22nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Big big thanks

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plagasse

October 25th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Thanks for this tip! A simple solution to an annoying problem!

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Liam

November 1st, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Nothing better than a clean menu bar. Much thanks.

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DanGTD

November 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

What a great come back to blogging. :)

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matt

November 4th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Marco Gomes

November 11th, 2008 at 5:20 am

tnx

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Peter

November 24th, 2008 at 7:32 am

I’ve been trying for days! Thanks so much :-)

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Marty Russell

November 26th, 2008 at 5:59 am

great, looks much more cleaner

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Olle

December 1st, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Thanks, I like my mac to be clean and tidy.

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Eddie

December 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am

Thanks! Phew!
You do have to wonder about all these non-wanted programs starting up…

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Ken

December 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Awesome. Thank you so much.

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Harrison

December 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am

Fantastic, thanks!

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Derek

January 19th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Thank you so much!

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Lisa

February 1st, 2009 at 12:20 am

I find when I reboot it comes back :(

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Mark

February 3rd, 2009 at 3:38 am

Start up iSync (in your Applications folder), go to Preferences, and you can permanently make it go away, even after you reboot.

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Ed Rocker

February 25th, 2009 at 5:34 am

That was awesome dude! I love how it disappeared in a puff of smoke. LOL!!!

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parkmyungchul

March 12th, 2009 at 2:36 am

It suddenly appeared this morning but you’ve blown my worry away. Thanks a lot.

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sap

March 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm

I’ve been trying for weeks. amazingly simple solution . thanks a bunch

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keala

April 15th, 2009 at 9:33 am

thank god…this was driving me nuts!

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vengeful Poet

April 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Many thanks.

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NOne

April 28th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

thanks a lot, very helpfull!

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Joe

May 10th, 2009 at 12:52 am

Ditto #20

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Aaron

May 13th, 2009 at 2:13 am

Hurray!
Ditto #20,25

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Lee

June 6th, 2009 at 7:27 am

Yeah, being the cleanfreak I am, I thought I’d never be able to rid my menu bar of that unused, annoying little icon – http://blog.gingergeek.com/2009/06/how-to-remove-the-isync-mobileme-icon-from-menu-bar/

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Tina

January 31st, 2010 at 8:33 pm

Thanks a lot! Soooo easy but sooo good!
Thanks a million!

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Poohbarr

February 12th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! like really i was super aggravated about that and knew on windows you just right click and unlock ur menu bar, this is something that should be spread around. I feel really dumb as to how easy it was and how much trouble i have had with it.

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Mayssam

March 28th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

LOL THAT SIT ?!? AWESOME !!!!

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Luke

April 6th, 2010 at 4:08 am

Thanks!!!! That’s Awesome!

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matt grove

April 13th, 2010 at 9:01 am

That easy!! Thanks for the info! :D

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mannie ll

May 5th, 2010 at 1:41 am

Simple. Just like the way things should be for an Apple product. You don’t have any idea how annoying it was to have that on there. (or maybe you do…) Anyhow, thanks again!

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BigCheez

May 9th, 2010 at 10:22 am

Simple Pimple.

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Michael Johnston

May 28th, 2010 at 2:13 am

This made my day. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why Apple did this. Other menu bar items can usually be removed in System Preferences. This was the menu bar item from hell – but now it’s gone!

Thanks!

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Thierry Montaudon

June 20th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

Thanks my God (the Flying Spaghetti Monster).

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eimboZ

June 22nd, 2010 at 1:46 am

It was that simple huh?

Thank you so much.
I hate that icon since I don’t use MobileMe….

but anyways…. thanks…

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Jakub

July 2nd, 2010 at 4:04 pm

Thanks

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Erwin

July 4th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Thanks so much!

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Frank

July 10th, 2010 at 4:31 am

Curious! I have Snow Leopard 10.6.3, and I can turn it on and off from my \SystemPreferences\MobileMe\Sync.

Wonder why people have a lot of problems with this?

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