Mac Wi-Fi Iconography
The Wi-Fi menu—located on the system menu bar—reveals what kind
of connection is in progress on your computer. Knowing what the icons
mean can help you troubleshoot problems. This icon is always at the
top of the Wi-Fi menu.
Note: If you don’t see a Wi-Fi menu on the system menu bar, read
Finding the Wi-Fi Menu, earlier.
A gray fan indicates an active Wi-Fi network adapter that isn’t
currently connected to a network. Read
Connect Your Devices.
A full fan with one or more black bars—the bars represent current
strength—indicates a current Wi-Fi connection to either a base station
or a network created through the Sharing system preference pane’s
Internet Sharing service. (An animation of each wave turning black in
turn occurs while the connection is underway.) For more information,
consult
Connect Your Devices and Appendix B: Setting up a Software
Base Station.
iOS devices may share a cellular connection via Wi-Fi using
the Personal Hotspot feature. When a Mac connects to such a network,
the fan icon is overlaid with interlinked loops. Apple also uses this
symbol in iOS to indicate a tethered connection of this kind.
A fan showing an up arrow indicates that the Internet Sharing
service is active on this computer. See
Software Base Station.
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