Comment by garyrob
10 months ago
In the current MacOS release, if I type Time Machine in the System Settings search box, it shows what I was looking for: "Show Time Machine status in the menu bar".
But if I click that, it shows the switch for the Keyboard Brightness menu bar control, and doesn't show anything about the Time Machine menu bar item!
Apple cannot figure out how to do a search in settings for the life of them. It's been broken on iOS basically since it was added. Do any googling about iOS settings search and you'll only find people talk about it to rant about how bad it is.
The absurd thing is that Apple pioneered searching settings in early MacOS. You type your query and a spotlight effect shined on the corresponding Preferences Panel for the selected candidate of your search results. Hence why Spotlight was called that originally.
somewhat similar problem, but I always go for time machine settings, it always wants me to open the time machine drive. Searching for time machine worked better on my imac dv. Not to mention you can only use google as your search engine in spotlight when major browsers have let you change it for the last decade or two