The quick file access feature implemented in System 7 was removed, although a third-party utility, Unsanity's FruitMenu, restored the Apple menu to its classic functionality until it stopped working with the advent of OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The Apple menu was missing entirely from the Mac OS X Public Beta, replaced by a nonfunctional Apple logo in the center of the menu bar, but the menu was restored in Mac OS X 10.0.
System management functions from the Special menu have been merged into it. MacOS (previously known as Mac OS X and OS X) features a completely redesigned Apple menu. Apple Menu Options also added Recent Applications, Recent Documents, and Recent Servers to the Apple Menu the user could specify the desired number of Recent Items. Prior versions of System 7 showed only a standard menu entry that opened the folder in Finder.
System 7.5 added an Apple Menu Options control panel, which added submenus to folders and disks in the Apple Menu, showing the contents of the folder or disk. In this case, it ran the application called "Application Switcher". Beginning in Mac OS 8.5, this new menu was given a unique "tear-off" capability, which detached the menu from the menu bar to become a free-floating window when the user dragged the cursor downwards off the bottom of the menu. The feature allowing users to switch between multiple running applications as in System 6 was given its own menu (appearing as the icon of the active application) on the opposite side of the menubar. System 7.0 featured built-in multitasking, so MultiFinder was removed as an option. In System 7.0, the black logo was retained in grayscale modes, and was used when the Monitors control panel was set to display "Thousands" or "Millions" of grays, though the rest of the display was in color. System 7.0 was also the first version to feature the rainbow striped logo, as opposed to the black logo found in previous versions. An alias to the Control Panels folder was also present. The Apple menu also featured a Shut Down command, implemented by a Desk Accessory. Several third-party utilities provided a level of customization of the order of the items added to the Apple menu without having to rename each item. The Menu Manager forced these additions into alphabetical order, which prompted users to rename their aliases with leading spaces, numbers and other characters in order to get them into the order that suited them the best. This allowed users to place alias(es) to their favorite software and documents in the menu. System 7.0 introduced the Apple Menu Items folder in the System Folder.
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