Hello all-
i have noticed the past few days that when pressing VO Mm to enter the status menus on mac that voiceover is reading 2 clocks. one is at the left end and one at the right end. the one on the right is a regular clock while the one on the left visually looks like an empty box.
How do I get rid of the clock on the left? or is this a monterey bug?
thanks for any help.
By Mara, 20 May, 2022
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Not seeing this here
I'm not seeing this here on the latest Monterey release.
Is it possible that this is a menu item for an application? Anything installed or updated recently which might have added this? What happens when you activate the context menu on this item?
Have you restarted your Mac since this appeared? If not, give it a try... just in case ☺️
Restarted Mac and it is still there
the only thing I have done is update to the latest version of Monterey, 12.4. so I restarted as you suggested and the two clocks are still there. strange.
Clock
This is strange. What does VoiceOver identify the other icon as?
reads the same thing at both ends of the bar
hey, yeah, passing strange. I never saw it before - on any other device.
VoiceOver reads the date and time at both ends of the status menus. does that make sense? so today is Friday may 20 10:30pm. That's what it wil say at both ends the status menus.
You can change this
With macOS 12.4, apple has added dynamic date and time. This also is the default setting after updating to macOs 12.4. To change this and only show the date and time once, do the following:
1. Open system preferences
2. Head over to Dock & Menu Bar and select the clock in the table (unfortunately, VO is only saying empty object in this table). Therefore, you have to select the item in the table, stop interaction, and then check whether clock is selected.
3. Select the popup menu and select the option "always" in there
The issue should now be fixed.
Thanks
Thanks so much to @hexagon!
The issue is now fixed. hopefully it will help somebody else.