If you like, you can make the Mac’s menu bar disappear until you move your mouse to the top of the screen. (On these trackpads, the actual click you “feel” is an audio fakeout anyway.)Īuto-hide menu bar. If you have a MacBook with one of the new “force touch” trackpads, there’s a new option in System Preferences that lets you click completely silently. In a Finder window’s sidebar, you now see a progress wheel, so you’ll know when your local copies of what’s on your iCloud Drive have been backed up to the Web. ICloud Drive transfer progress indicator. In El Capitan, you can, if you prefer, have those keystrokes switch among your various open tabs instead. In Yosemite, the keystrokes Command-1 through Command-9 opened the first nine Favorites (bookmarks). The status bar (the strip that shows you the Web address of the link you’re about to click) is now translucent, and it vanishes entirely when you’re not actually pointing to a link. But the developer release of El Capitan actually has a ton of tiny tweaks Apple didn’t mention: The features you’ve just read about aren’t any surprise, because Apple showed them off onstage last week.