The public beta version of Mac OS X didn’t have an Apple menu

Updated June 10th, 2019.

Yes, it’s true: the public beta version of OS X did not have an Apple menu. It had an Apple logo in the center of the menu bar, but it just sat there. It was not a menu– it was just a badge, and it was “Aqua.” Click it and nothing happened.

There was more than a bit of an uproar about this and the Apple menu’s position and some functionality was restored in Mac OS X 10.0.

Thank you to Wikipedia for the image.

Did this article help you?

Maybe you'd like to contribute to the
Christian Boyce coffee fund.

---

Want some some quick iPhone how-tos?
Visit me at iPhoneinaminute.com.

Looking for in-depth tutorials?
See my christianboyce.com website!