Hide icon spotlight in El Capitan

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Ruslan picture Ruslan · Jul 26, 2015 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

Mac os x El Capitan

I want to hide the spotlight icon.
Enter the command: 

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

In response to receiving this: 

chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search: Operation not permitted

How to fix it?

Answer

Alec picture Alec · Oct 3, 2015

Not sure about the other answers, because /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle doesn't seem to exist here.

However, if you're using Bartender, you can still remove the Spotlight icon (while keeping Spotlight search in tact) by temporarily disabling System Integrity Protection.

  1. Reboot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘+R during boot)
  2. Utilities > Terminal
  3. csrutil disable
  4. Reboot
  5. Start Bartender. It'll ask to install some stuff, now that SIP is off
  6. Hide Spotlight, which can now be found in Bartender's menu items list
  7. Reboot into Recovery Mode and re-enable SIP: csrutil enable
  8. Reboot

After you've re-enabled SIP, Bartender will keep hiding the icon.

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