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StrayTaco
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December 23, 2022
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Is there an option to change the menu bar icon back?

  • December 23, 2022
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I see that the menu bar icon has changed from a narrow, video camera icon to a double-width icon of the word "zoom".  On MacBooks, this is a big problem because of the "notch". Having that double-width icon pushes other icons out of view.

 

I love having Zoom in my menu bar, but with the size I have to remove it. Is there any way to set the icon back to the smaller one, so I can keep it?

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    YaBoiB
    Community Champion | Employee
    YaBoiB
    Community Champion | Employee
    December 23, 2022

    Hello @StrayTaco, 

     

     To my knowledge the icon is the same size that it has always been we just changed the logo inside of the icon. I have a mac and I cannot tell the difference. Is there an accessibility setting that you have selected that maybe I do not have selected on my machine? 

     

    Thanks, 

    Brandon 

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    morgan_z
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    January 3, 2023

    I would also like to be able to switch back. The new menu bar icon is unnecessarily large and takes up way too much space. Here's some screenshots showing the icon next to some normal sized icons, not sure how you can't see the difference @YaBoiB, it's nearly twice as wide. The old icon (the camera) was roughly the same size as the wifi or bluetooth icons here, and it fit in much better.

     

     

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      Styan
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      January 11, 2023

      I'd like to +1 the camera icon making a come back. The full word ZOOM takes too much room!

        YaBoiB
        Community Champion | Employee
        YaBoiB
        Community Champion | Employee
        January 11, 2023

        @Styan  and @morgan_z, 

         

         This is our new platform icon and I do not see this changing anytime soon, but you can send your feedback to the zoom.us/feed page and if enough customers are not happy with the new design the Product team will definitely take that into consideration. 

         

        Thanks, 

        Brandon

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        shrimp
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        January 19, 2023

        Please pass this along to the appropriate Product Manager.

         

        Not only do I loathe this change, but I will no longer keep zoom running on my machine. This is, first and foremost, a space violation at best, and incredibly rude at worst. This is like going into a crowded subway and lying prone on the accessibility sections and making the other apps push into the menubar.

         

        If I were Sr. Product Mgr for Zoom, I'd think twice before doing this, because it's one step away from violating the trust of your users.

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          FelikZ
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          January 26, 2023

          This new icon is eating all the space from navigation bar. Luckily you can disable it in settings or switch to Meet / Teams.

            YaBoiB
            Community Champion | Employee
            YaBoiB
            Community Champion | Employee
            January 27, 2023

            Hello All, 

             

             As I stated above, please express your concerns to our team through the correct process on our Feedback page. This page is monitored by the Product team, which makes these decisions. 

             

            Thank you, 

            Brandon

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            BobaMilo
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            March 6, 2023

            Can you do that and share back the link?

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            BobaMilo
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            March 6, 2023

            I have been booking my meetings on Teams just because of this. That tray icon looks like an advertisement banner. I cannot go to my clients with that on my screen.

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              jbrsd
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              March 10, 2023

              Please change this back to a single-wide icon.

               

              Personally I've disabled the menu bar item completely now.

               

               

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                delphinia
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                February 8, 2024

                This resolves my problem entirely. Thank you!

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                mrw6
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                April 18, 2023

                In command-line shell:

                 

                cd /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Frameworks/zMacResRetina.bundle/Contents/Resources
                sudo chmod 777 .
                sudo chmod 666 menu_tray*

                 

                Use Preview to crop menu_tray.png and *********** to just the letter Z.

                 

                In same shell as above:

                sudo chmod 755 .
                sudo chmod 644 menu_tray*

                 

                Restart Zoom

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                  mitchell-l-avp
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                  May 24, 2023

                  This is excellent, I had some finickyness with resizing, note that the 2x.png has to be exactly twice the size of the menu_tray.png file, so in my case, it was 9px by 8px, and therefore 18px by 16px in the 2x file. It got grumpy when they weren't perfectly matched, but I love this hack! I recommend keeping a copy of your cropped images, so that if Zoom updates, and puts the big one back, you can quickly copy them back in again, like:

                   

                   

                   

                  # Assuming the cropped images are in ~/Desktop/zoomicons/ sudo cp ~/Desktop/zoomicons/menu_tray* /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Frameworks/zMacResRetina.bundle/Contents/Resources/

                   

                   

                  Here is what it looks like now!

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                    mrw6
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                    April 18, 2023

                    The second filename was incorrectly interpreted as an email address.  Here's a second attempt:

                     

                    Use Preview to crop menu_tray.png and menu_tray @2x.png to just the letter Z

                     

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                    pai-si
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                    January 12, 2024

                    This hack doesn't seem to be working for me. Has anyone else had any luck?

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                    mrw6
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                    January 12, 2024

                    It is still working for me in 5.17.2.  As mitchell-l-avp said, there may be sensitivity to file sizes.  Here are some details around my replacement images.  The "*" is really an "at" symbol that seems to be misinterpreted by the site software.

                     

                    $ file menu_tray* menu_tray.png: PNG image data, 8 x 9, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced menu_tray*2x.png: PNG image data, 16 x 18, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

                     

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