Option to toggle handle bar (toolbar) with a keybind

Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Wishlist
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Hello Microsoft / Asobo team,

Please add an option to toggle the toolbar “handle bar” visibility with a keybind in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Currently, the handle bar always appears at the top of the screen whenever the mouse gets close to that area.
While that’s convenient for accessing in-flight tools, it often causes frustration, especially when a cockpit control or switch is directly under the bar, and the handle takes priority over aircraft interaction.

All we really need is a simple keybind to enable or disable the handle bar on demand.

Many users have relied on community mods like “Ither-NoHandleBar” or “Handlebar Mod MSFS2024” to fix this, but these can break after updates or stop working when UI files change.
We shouldn’t need external mods to control such a basic UI element, especially one that can interfere with normal aircraft operation or immersion.

Please consider making this a built-in feature in the simulator.
It would be a small change but a huge quality-of-life improvement for everyone.

Thanks for listening.

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Hi, check this out, I think it does what you need:

https://flightsim.to/file/99176/toolbar-mod

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Awesome mod, that just come out on the 22nd!
This did not exists prior to that, thanks a lot for reaching out with this info!

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@Cold8385, it seems your wish same as this one: Remove toolbar white arrow. Could you confirm ?

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Negative, my wish is to have the toolbar menu be a toggle with a keybind instead of always being on.

Currently if you hover the top of the screen the toolbar shows up and therefor takes priority over plane controls.

My suggestions suggest a keybind to basically disable/enable the toolbar so that when your mouse is on the top part of your screen it doesn’t activate when you’re trying to control the overhead panel of planes.

As W0rmie2k20 has linked me a mod that was made after i made this suggestion im currently using that until we get a native way of disabling/enabling the toolbar on demand instead of it always being active.

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