Height of the apple menubar

Question

I was just wondering how to get the height of the apple menubar, in pixels (the one always on top)

(My screen size is 1200 x 800) i was wondering what it would be excluding the menubar.

Try taking a screenshot and measuring the height in Photoshop or some other graphic manip. software, no? — jeanreis, May 19 '10 at 16:39
I'm curious - can the height ever be != 22 pixels? E.g due to DPI/accessibility/font settings? — dbr, Jan 08 '11 at 07:13
@Ross: To date, all retina stuff has been double-resolution but the pixel metrics have been the same, so even that might still be 22 pixels, but 44 physical dots. — Hakanai, Jul 08 '14 at 01:40

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '11 at 00:12

Programmatically (as this is SO, I was looking for a programmatical answer and google sent me here) you can get this by using:

 CGFloat menuBarHeight = [[[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainMenu] menuBarHeight];

or as a graphic designer I know would say: 0.8cm ;)

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '10 at 18:45

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And if you need to know at runtime, use -[NSMenu menuBarHeight].

answered Jun 04 '10 at 18:45

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This will return 0 if the menu bar is not currently visible. – George Nov 24 '21 at 23:05

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 19 '17 at 14:32

As per @Ross's answer:

NSApplication.sharedApplication().mainMenu?.menuBarHeight

Unfortunately, this will return nil before the app finishes launching (because the mainMenu will be nil). If you need this value earlier than that (and you don't want to guess it for the future OS releases), you can calculate it like so:

if let screen = NSScreen.mainScreen() {
    let menuBarHeight = screen.frame.height - screen.visibleFrame.height - screen.visibleFrame.origin.y - 1
}

This number will not be correct only if there is some extra screen furniture (like the Dock for example) pinned from the top, which seems extremely unlikely.

Update: To support multiple displays (primary and secondary):

let appleMenuBarHeight = screen.frame.height - screen.visibleFrame.height - (screen.visibleFrame.origin.y - screen.frame.origin.y) - 1

tmslnz · Answer 4 · 2022-06-12T10:44:30.073

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The non-programmatic-6-nanoseconds way I would find out:

Step 1: ⌘ + ⇧ + 4
Step 2: press ␣ (space) and your cursor will turn from a crosshair to a something that selects whole windows.
Step 3: CLICK
Step 4: ~/Desktop/Screen shot 2001-##-##.png/jpg
Step 5:  + i

The info panel will tell you the height (and width).

(sןǝxıd oʍʇ-ʎʇuǝʍʇ :ɹǝʍsuɐ)

(ɹns ƃᴉq soɔɐɯ ǝɔuᴉs slǝxᴉd ǝʌᴉɟ-ʎʇuǝʍʇ :ǝʇɐpdn)

edited Jun 12 '22 at 10:44

answered Feb 12 '11 at 00:23

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¿xdᄅᄅ- ʇǝƃ ı ɹǝʍsuɐ ɹnoʎ ʞɔǝɥɔ ı uǝɥʍ – Ross Feb 12 '11 at 00:31
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The snapshot -> space -> select windows thing is awesome! :p – Samuel May 23 '12 at 15:13
Seems to be 25 pixels in macOS 12.4. – Barry Jones Jun 07 '22 at 21:52

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 16 '20 at 16:57

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Quick and simple Swift 5 solution:

NSStatusBar.system.thickness

answered Nov 16 '20 at 16:57

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This is still 22 on notch macs. – George Nov 24 '21 at 23:05

Height of the apple menubar

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