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Istat Menus Big Sur



IStat Menus is an advanced system monitor for your menu bar, letting you check the vital stats of your Mac at a glance. It covers a huge range of stats, iStat Menu including a CPU monitor, GPU, memory, network usage, disk usage, disk activity, temperature monitoring, fan sensors, power sensors, date & time, battery, and. The Features of iStat Menus 6 Full Version For macOS: Weather with current temperature, hourly forecast, weekly overview, and so much more. Refined menu bar items, dropdowns, and other aspects match the new design of macOS 11 Big Sur. Notifications based on CPU, network, disk, battery, weather, and other events. IStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and more. This lets you be notified when your public IP has changed, if your internet connection is down, if CPU usage is above 60% for more than 10 seconds, or a near-infinite range of other options. IStat Menus is a great app for looking at the current utilization of your resources, past utilization (days, weeks, and in some cases – months of historical data). I am particularly fond of the inbound and outbound internet bandwidth utilization, and iStat provides a beautiful, simple, and at the same time – detail oriented way to view this.

Istat Menus Big Sur

Fan control and sensors on Apple Silicon Macs #

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iStat Menus can not control the fans on Apple Silicon Macs, and it also currently can not show sensors. We’re investigating what’s possible.

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Battery condition on Apple Silicon Macs #

The battery health and condition information on Apple Silicon Macs is currently incorrect (showing “Service Battery”). This will be fixed in the next update.

macOS 11 Big Sur and widgets #

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Widgets are entirely different in macOS 11 Big Sur, and are based on new technologies.

The older style Notification Center Today Widgets do not run on Big Sur at all. For widgets to run on Big Sur, they need to be re-built from scratch. We’re investigating what can be done with the new widgets, but at this point we believe it will not be possible to display realtime stats with a frequent refresh rate.

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Missing menubar items #

The sensors shown in the menubar are determined by the “Sensors to show in menubar” area in the Sensors tab. If this is blank, nothing will show. To add a sensor to the Menubar Sensors area, drag a token from the section below.

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Disks and batteries work the same way — what’s shown in the menubar is determined by the “Disks to show in menubar” and “Batteries to show in menubar” areas. Drag a token into those areas to choose which disks and batteries are shown in the menubar.