How can I remove the toolbar from the axes, but keep it at the top of the window?

How would I go about removing the toolbar that pops up when you hover over a figure, but still keep the toolbar at the top of the window (i.e. the one that always stayed at the top in previous versions of Matlab)?

I have already tried to use 'Toolbar','None' but that just removes the toolbar completely from both the figure axes and from the top of the window. I want it just removed from the figure axes.

[Rik]

Do you want to only remove the popup menu, or do you also want to add back the controls in the toolbar?

[Ajanae Williams]

I would like to do both.

[Rik]

Then my answer should do what you need. Have you tried it?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See the official toolbar answer here in this Mathworks Support Answer

In short:

addToolbarExplorationButtons(gcf) % Adds buttons to current figure's toolbar

Answer 2

[Rik]

In the same thread image analyst refers to, you can also find my suggestion for both a portable solution (see below), and a suggested edit for startup.m to make the change permanent, but only on your copy of Matlab.

function fig=figure_legacy(varargin)
%Open a figure with the old style (pre-R2018b) of plot interactions
fig=figure(varargin{:});
try %#ok if verLessThan is missing verLessThan would have returned true
  if ~verLessThan('matlab','9.5')
      addToolbarExplorationButtons(fig)
      % Use eval to trick the syntax checking in ML6.5 (both the ~ and
      % the @ trip up the syntax checker).
      %
      % Using evalc ensures that you can group functions in a single
      % anonymous function that otherwise have no output (as neither
      % disableDefaultInteractivity() nor set() have output arguments).
      defaultAxesCreateFcn=eval(['@(ax,~){',...
          'evalc(''set(ax.Toolbar,''''Visible'''',''''off'''')''),',...
          'evalc(''disableDefaultInteractivity(ax)'')}']);
      set(fig,'defaultAxesCreateFcn',  ...
          defaultAxesCreateFcn);
  end
end
end

Answer 3

[Tyson]

This should do it.

ax=axes;

axtoolbar(ax,{});