Fix stuck Menu Bar, Wifi, Clock, Battery status on Mac OSX

On: April 22, 2014   By: Travis Millward   In: Apple

I found my menu bar was "stuck". When I hovered over it I would get the spinning color wheel. I couldn't access the wifi, the battery, the bluetooth, the airplay, the clock, or spotlight.

This had been like this for a few hours and "force quitting" Finder didn't help.

This is how I fixed it.

Open Activity Monitor. It is in Applications / Utilities / Activity Monitor.

Anything in red is having an issue so you'll want to Force Quit it.

My problem was the SystemUIServer. Select it, then click the stop sign x looking button at the top left of the screen.

It will automatically restart and hopefully your Menu Bar will be responsive again.

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