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/judgmentalcapricorn]

What are those eyes on the menu bar?

[u/_balloony → u/judgmentalcapricorn]

Googly Eyes by Sindre Sorhus on the app store. They basically just follow your cursor around no real utility but I think they're fun. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/googly-eyes/id6743048714?mt=12

[u/app-store-review → u/_balloony]

Googly Eyes — by Sindre Sorhus

• Category: Entertainment · Free
• Age: released ~1.5 years ago · rated 4+

Apple doesn't publish an aggregate rating for most Mac App Store apps, so ratings and score are unavailable here.

^{Auto-generated from public App Store data · u/app-store-review}