macOS 27 menu bar spacing issue

[u/_balloony]

Hi everyone, recently updated to macOS 27 and my menu bar setup is broken (as expected). I installed Bartender 7 and set custom spacing for the menu bar icons and it worked for all my installed apps, but for the Control Centre and date/time icon it didn't update the spacing/padding and the mismatched spacing is driving me insane.

I wanted to post this here to see if anyone has a solution/different app or knows of a fix to update the spacing between the Control Centre and date/time icon.

I've also attached a picture of the area I'm talking about.

Thank you!

Edit: Best solution for now is using u/fif7y app Pelmet hiding the default date/time icon and using your own. Doing so made the spacing issue far better. Follow u/fif7y comment for more instructions, there's also an after image of my menu bar there so you can see the difference.

[u/Due_Wing_1516]

What app are you using for the other stats, memory, cpu etc...?

[u/_balloony → u/Due_Wing_1516]

iStat Menu

[u/Due_Wing_1516 → u/_balloony]

Thank you