Many designs...need pictures for specific advice.

Before I offer suggestions, let me ask three questions:

1) Does the setup in your photo permit you to have both shower heads running at the same time, or do you have to choose and switch between them?

2) Where is the handle that turns the water flow on and off?

3) If you remove the slide bar, and have only the one shower head up above, what do you intend to do about the hole in the tile below, which may have a protruding piece of pipe sticking out?

1. Only one can run at a time

2. the handle is below, standard position of where a traditional handle would be.

3. good question! It would need to be removed as well and patched.

This seem more complicated then I was anticipating...I just purchased a house and this was installed. Do you think a handyman can manage this or would I need a plumber?

A decent handyman could probably do it, but there's no guarantee. I think the removal of the bar would be the easy part, but there is no telling what you would run into at the bottom end. That part would have to be capped off, and whether the end of the cap is inside the wall or not will depend on what is found when the fixture is taken off. In either case, you'll have an ugly hole to deal with and I'm not clear on how you can easily patch and waterproof it. This may be one of those things you don't want to touch until you decide to redo the whole shower. Sometimes "fixing" something that isn't broken can lead to regrets.

If you’ve never had this setup before, perhaps live with it a bit. I love having a separate handheld for cleaning and rinsing.

Thanks, i am planning on remodeling the bath at aome point, so probably easier keep it for now. thank you for the help!