309 bugs reported against Ice (jordanbaird/Ice) are fixed or addressed in Icey, the maintained replacement for Ice. If you hit one of them in Ice, install Icey: it replaces Ice and keeps your settings.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#334: “Ice has noticeable energy impact during mouse movement”
Problem: Moving the mouse raised Ice's energy use in Activity Monitor, even with "Show on hover" turned off.
Fix: Icey only listens to mouse, scroll and drag events while a setting that needs them is on. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#479: “Energy impact”
Problem: Ice showed a high energy impact in Activity Monitor during normal use.
Fix: Icey stops listening to system-wide mouse events it doesn't need, so it stays near zero energy impact while idle. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#578: “High CPU usage”
Problem: With menu bar appearance settings on, Ice's CPU use spiked after every app switch, because it polled the app menu every millisecond.
Fix: Icey polls with a back-off, and only for the split shape, which needs the app menu's width. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#819: “memory leak in WindowServer caused by Ice?”
Problem: After the Ice Bar was shown once, Ice captured the menu bar every 5 seconds forever, which kept WindowServer busy and growing.
Fix: Icey only captures the menu bar while the Ice Bar is visible, and only captures the wallpaper for shapes that draw it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Icey takes far fewer captures. A WindowServer leak inside macOS itself can't be ruled out.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#530: “high memory usage”
Problem: Ice's memory grew over long runtimes.
Fix: A screen capture leak is fixed, and the menu bar item image cache is pruned instead of growing without limit. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#973: “Menu bar layout shown nothing on the sections”
Problem: On macOS 26 Tahoe, the Menu Bar Layout pane showed empty sections or "Unable to display menu bar items".
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#951: “Can't view the icons on Menu Bar Layout”
Problem: The Menu Bar Layout pane showed no icons, so items couldn't be rearranged.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#999: “Can't see layout”
Problem: The Menu Bar Layout pane stayed blank.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#921: “Icons in re-arrange menu in settings aren't visible”
Problem: The icons in the Menu Bar Layout settings didn't show, so nothing could be rearranged.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#916: “I can't edit my layout, because it's all blank”
Problem: The Menu Bar Layout pane was blank, so the layout couldn't be edited.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#913: “Settings Menu: Menu Bar Layout Icons Do Not Appear”
Problem: No icons appeared in the Menu Bar Layout pane.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably, so the layout shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#957: “Starts but nothing much more”
Problem: Ice launched, but its menu bar layout, Ice Bar and search showed no items.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite, and its helper for identifying menu bar items now connects reliably. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#947: “app crash after click in menubar”
Problem: On macOS 26, Ice could crash when you clicked the menu bar.
Fix: The code that crashed is gone, and similar conversions elsewhere no longer crash on unexpected values. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#977: “crashes whenever I use the trigger button in the menu bar”
Problem: On macOS 26, clicking Ice's own menu bar icon to show hidden items crashed the app.
Fix: The code that crashed is gone, and similar conversions elsewhere no longer crash on unexpected values. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#925: “Crash when enabling "Use Ice Bar" with Dynamic location”
Problem: Turning on "Use Ice Bar" with the Dynamic location crashed Ice.
Fix: The code that crashed is gone, and similar conversions elsewhere no longer crash on unexpected values. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#905: “(untitled report)”
Problem: With the Ice Bar enabled, Ice 0.11.12 crashed at launch or while running on macOS 26.4, on a main-thread check while reading the menu bar's window.
Fix: Icey doesn't have the Ice 0.11.12 code that crashed. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#969: “update dialog keeps open and cannot be closed after launch”
Problem: The "Check for updates automatically?" dialog opened on launch and couldn't be closed.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#937: “Check for automatic updates keeps appearing when clicking”
Problem: The "Check for updates automatically?" prompt came back again and again.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#931: “Check for updates automatically dialog box doesnt accept input”
Problem: The "Check for updates automatically?" dialog ignored clicks.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#912: “Update window won't shut down after clicking on update option”
Problem: After choosing an update option, the update window stayed open.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#932: “(untitled report)”
Problem: On macOS 26.4.1, none of the options in the update dialog could be clicked.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#926: “(untitled report)”
Problem: Right after opening Ice on macOS 26.3.1, the "Check for updates automatically" pop-up stayed open after either option was chosen.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, accepts input, and stays answered. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#986: “Ice Bar leaves a ghost/visual artifact on the primary display when a video enters fullscreen on a secondary display”
Problem: If a space or display changed while the Ice Bar was opening, for example a video entering fullscreen on another display, an empty bar stayed on screen.
Fix: The Ice Bar now stays closed when the space or display changes while it opens. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#959: “Split menu bar does not function like expected in full screen”
Problem: The menu bar appearance used the fullscreen state of whichever display had focus, so the split shape broke in fullscreen.
Fix: Each display now uses its own fullscreen state. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#988: “Ice Bar fullscreen expansion behaves differently depending on which display contains the active window”
Problem: In fullscreen, the Ice Bar expanded differently depending on which display had the active window.
Fix: Each display now uses its own fullscreen state. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#968: “Ice stuck / menu bar stays hidden after form dropdown hang”
Problem: When an app stopped responding, Ice could get stuck waiting for it, and the menu bar stayed hidden.
Fix: Accessibility calls now give up after 1 second, and stuck item moves and clicks time out and retry. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1014: “With an app item among the system items, clicking the battery opens that app and Wi-Fi does not open”
Problem: On macOS 27, with an app's item placed among the system items, clicking the battery opened that app, and Wi-Fi didn't open.
Fix: Each click now reaches the item you clicked. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#954: “Ice in menu bar not working anymore (MacOS Golden Gate 27)”
Problem: On macOS 27, Ice could no longer hide items, and Screen Mirroring disappeared from the menu bar.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support: hiding, the Ice Bar and the layout editor work again, and Screen Mirroring stays. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support, built from community work for Ice. Please report anything that doesn't work.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1007: “An app launched while concealed gets a squashed (3 pt) menu bar item that never recovers”
Problem: On macOS 27, an app that launched while items were hidden got a 3-point-wide menu bar item that never recovered.
Fix: Icey's macOS 27 support sorts items into the right section when an app launches or quits. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1006: “What got Ice working with PR #995, plus two things to look into”
Problem: Ice didn't work on macOS 27 without the unmerged community pull request jordanbaird/Ice#995 and further fixes.
Fix: Icey includes jordanbaird/Ice#995 and the follow-up fixes this issue describes. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1010: “always loading meum bar items”
Problem: On macOS 27, the menu bar items list kept loading and never showed anything.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support, so the layout editor loads your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1009: “(untitled report)”
Problem: On macOS 27.2 beta 3, the Menu Bar Layout pane showed "Loading menu bar items..." with a spinner forever.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support, so the layout editor loads your items on macOS 27. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support. macOS 27.2 betas are untested.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1008: “Not functioning since MacOS 27 update on my Macbook pro M3 pro”
Problem: After updating to macOS 27, Ice stopped working.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support: hiding, the Ice Bar and the layout editor work again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1003: “Updated to MacOS 27.0.1 and cannot customize Menu Bar Layout on Ice”
Problem: On macOS 27.0.1, the Menu Bar Layout couldn't be customized.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support, so the layout editor works again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#996: “Ice not working properly on macOS 27 Golden Gate”
Problem: On macOS 27, hiding items, the Ice Bar and the layout editor didn't work.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support: hiding, the Ice Bar and the layout editor work again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#992: “unavailable under MacOS27”
Problem: Ice was unusable on macOS 27.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support: hiding, the Ice Bar and the layout editor work again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#991: “MacOS 27 Update”
Problem: Ice broke after the macOS 27 update.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support: hiding, the Ice Bar and the layout editor work again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#970: “Not automatically hiding in MacOS 27”
Problem: On macOS 27, items didn't hide again automatically.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support for hiding and showing items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support. Auto-rehide is untested on macOS 27.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#965: “Menubar layout broken/spinning in MacOS 27 Public Beta”
Problem: On the macOS 27 public beta, the Menu Bar Layout pane showed a spinner forever.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support, so the layout editor loads your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Early macOS 27 support.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#914: “Ice Bar auto-hides before cursor reaches it (latest beta)”
Problem: With timed or hover auto-rehide, the Ice Bar could close while you moved the pointer down to it.
Fix: The Ice Bar's area now counts as inside the menu bar, including during the moment before it appears. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#943: “Ligthing error when enabeling split shape in menu bar appearance”
Problem: With the split shape, the area around the shape looked brighter than the rest of the menu bar.
Fix: Icey now captures the wallpaper with the system's dimming layer, so the colors match. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#919: “Ice icon dissappeared”
Problem: When Ice's divider was missing from the menu bar, for example after turning Ice off in System Settings > Menu Bar, the icon was gone and the Menu Bar Layout pane loaded forever.
Fix: The layout pane now says what's wrong and how to get the icon back. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#946: “MacOS Tahoe 26.5 update broke hidden elements in ice layout”
Problem: After updating to macOS 26.5, every hidden item showed up in the always-hidden section, and items dragged back to Hidden fell back into Always-Hidden.
Fix: When the always-hidden divider ends up on the wrong side, Icey now moves it left of the items that were hidden, and it saves where its dividers are when it quits. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same cause as #702. Not reproduced on 26.5.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#961: “No dock icon”
Problem: A request to never show a Dock icon.
Fix: Turn off Settings > Advanced > Show Icey in the Dock while Settings is open. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#892: “[Feature Request]: Option to Fully Disable Right-Click Menu Bar Overlay”
Problem: Right-clicking an empty part of the menu bar always opened Ice's menu.
Fix: Turn off the right-click menu in Settings > Advanced. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Comes from upstream Ice 0.11.13.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#891: “[Bug]: ICons List Blank In Settings”
Problem: After installing a new app, the Menu Bar Layout list in Ice 0.11.12 was empty, so nothing could be added or changed.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#890: “[Bug]: Ice Bar”
Problem: With "Use Ice Bar" on, the bar only showed "Unable to display menu bar items" or kept loading; with it off, Ice worked.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Ice Bar shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#882: “[Bug]: Unclickable Permission”
Problem: While setting up Ice, the dialog about automatic updates couldn't be clicked or closed.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#880: “[Bug]: not be able to use it on imac today”
Problem: Ice kept showing a crash report and asking to be reopened.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#879: “[Bug]: "hide app menus when showing menu bar items" feature not working”
Problem: Ice appeared in the Dock but the application menus stayed.
Fix: If macOS refuses Icey's request to become the active app, Icey now activates anyway, so the menus hide instead of only a Dock icon appearing. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested on macOS 15 or 26.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#877: “[Bug]: PROJECT DEAD, no updates in 1.5 years, crashes all the time.”
Problem: Ice crashed when the Ice Bar was used, showed a blank layout pane and a stuck update dialog on macOS 26.
Fix: All three are fixed in Icey, which is built on the macOS 26 code. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#872: “[Bug]: Unstable, Layout menu area broken”
Problem: Ice 0.11.12 crashed often, and the Layout section showed no icons.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#871: “[Bug]: Unable to click on secondary menu bar icons, the bar disappears”
Problem: Clicking an icon in the secondary bar did nothing, because the bar disappeared first.
Fix: The Ice Bar's area now counts as inside the menu bar, so it stays open while you move to it and use it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Depends on your rehide setting. Please retest.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#867: “[Bug]: Ice crash on macOS 26.2 (25C56)”
Problem: Ice 0.11.12 crashed on macOS 26.2; the report includes the crash log.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#857: “[Bug]: Multiple identical app icons disappear when one is restored from hidden state (e.g. OneDrive)”
Problem: With three OneDrive accounts, clicking one hidden OneDrive item showed it, but the other two disappeared from the hidden items and couldn't be reached.
Fix: Icey now tells identical items from one app apart by their window, so only the item you click is shown and the others stay in their section. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested with several OneDrive accounts.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#855: “[Bug]: Ice keeps crashing after updating to OS26.2”
Problem: Ice loaded, then crashed as soon as its icon was clicked.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#854: “[Bug]: Icons are duplicated in the menu bar”
Problem: Items from different apps showed the same icon, because Ice couldn't tell which app owned them.
Fix: Icey's helper identifies the app behind each item again, so each item gets its own icon. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#846: “[Bug]: MenuBar in Settings Is Empty White Space”
Problem: After updating macOS, white blocks showed where the Menu Bar Layout should be, and clicking the Ice icon made it disappear.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#840: “Crash when enabling Ice Bar: EXC_BREAKPOINT in window handling”
Problem: After turning on "Use Ice Bar", Ice froze, update dialogs stopped responding, and clicking the Ice icon crashed it.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#838: “[Bug]: it seems to be frozen. I have to quit it and re-launch it to get it to function properly.”
Problem: After a long uptime Ice stopped responding and had to be relaunched.
Fix: Icey prunes its item caches, which grew without bound in Ice. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Not confirmed by the reporter.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#837: “[Bug]: Ice "Check for updates" alert pop-up appears during the application startup”
Problem: The automatic updates alert appeared at every startup and when clicking the menu bar.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#835: “[Bug]: Ice stopped doing anything other than changing the Bar's appearance”
Problem: All icons were shown, and the Menu Bar Layout pane showed two empty bars.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#833: “[Bug]: Cant see anything on”
Problem: The report shows an empty Menu Bar Layout pane in Ice 0.11.12.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#832: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout with Tahoe OS”
Problem: No icons showed in Menu Bar Layout, so items couldn't be rearranged, although opening the bar still showed them.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#830: “[Bug]: So many bugs”
Problem: On macOS 15.7.3 the Mac ran warmer with Ice running.
Fix: Icey listens to mouse events only when a setting needs them, polls less and takes fewer screen captures, so it stays near zero energy impact while idle. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
The report names no other specific bug.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#824: “[Bug]: Right-clicking in external monitor opens "Edit menu bar appearance" menu”
Problem: Right-clicking near the top of an external display opened Ice's appearance menu instead of the app's menu.
Fix: Icey checks the display under the pointer, including its width, before treating a click as a menu bar click. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#821: “[Bug]: ICE crashes every time on clicking the ICE icon in menubar. iMac, macOS 26.2 (issue identical on 26.1).”
Problem: On an iMac with macOS 26.2 (and 26.1), clicking the Ice icon always crashed Ice.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#818: “[Bug]: Menu bar layout editor is just empty/white”
Problem: The layout editor in Ice 0.11.12 was just an empty white area.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#816: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout does not give option to customize anything”
Problem: On a new laptop with macOS 26.1, Ice still hid items, but the layout pane showed nothing to customize, even after reinstalling.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#814: “[Bug]: "Use Ice Bar" feature does not work”
Problem: On macOS 26.1, the separate bar below the menu bar didn't work with the mouse pointer, dynamic or Ice icon location.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Ice Bar shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#813: “[Bug]: Ice bar closes soon after opening”
Problem: The Ice Bar closed a moment after it opened, before an item could be clicked.
Fix: The Ice Bar's area now counts as inside the menu bar, so it stays open while you move to it and use it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#810: “[Bug]: Crash on M1 Pro”
Problem: Using the separate Ice Bar crashed Ice.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#808: “[Bug]: macOS "Tahoe" - after system restart icon remains in dock”
Problem: Ice showed a Dock icon for minutes after login.
Fix: Icey now gives the app menus back as soon as no section is shown, and doesn't take them when the section closed while it was still reading the items, so the Dock icon goes away. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with a restart on macOS 26.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#807: “[Bug]: [Macbook Pro, M4 Pro] Not responding”
Problem: Ice 0.11.13-dev.2 hung, logging "Missing sourcePID" for menu bar items.
Fix: Icey's helper identifies item owners again, and Accessibility calls time out after a second. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#802: “[Bug]: After updating the Mac version, the layout settings disappeared.”
Problem: After updating to macOS 26.1, the layout settings in Ice 0.11.12 were empty.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#801: “[Feature Request]: 求中文”
Problem: A request for a Chinese translation.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#797: “[Feature Request]: only on screens with a notch”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar on screens with a notch and expand items inline elsewhere.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#796: “[Bug]: App crashes when opening the sub menu”
Problem: On a MacBook Pro with macOS 26.1, clicking the icon to show hidden items crashed Ice.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#793: “[Bug]: White icons on white background”
Problem: The Menu Bar Layout pane turned white, so white icons couldn't be seen.
Fix: The pane stays readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#787: “[Feature Request]: need language option，Chinese for example....”
Problem: A request for a language setting, with Chinese as an example.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#786: “[Bug]:Selecting 'Ice Bar' in settings and then tapping on the Ice icon causes Ice to crash”
Problem: On two Macs with macOS 26.1, turning on the Ice Bar and then clicking the Ice icon crashed Ice.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#785: “[Bug]: Sparkle outdated version 2.6.4”
Problem: Ice bundled an old version of Sparkle, its update framework.
Fix: Icey uses Sparkle 2.8.0. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#781: “[Bug]: ICE menu icon non showing anymore”
Problem: The Ice icon no longer appeared in the menu bar, because Ice crashed.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#779: “[Bug]: 点击图标自动就退出了.系统崩溃”
Problem: Clicking the Ice icon made Ice quit; the report includes the crash log.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#777: “[Bug]: Ice App Freezes During Screen Capture Operations”
Problem: Ice froze while it captured menu bar item images.
Fix: Icey runs captures off the main thread and takes fewer of them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not confirmed by the reporter.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#773: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout empty - All icons in hidden section”
Problem: After updating, every icon was moved to the hidden section, and both sections of the layout pane were empty.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#770: “[Bug]: App gets stuck when installed”
Problem: After installing and granting permissions, Ice got stuck on a screen where nothing could be clicked.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#769: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout gets reordered when i close the Ice app”
Problem: Item order reset when Ice quit or the Mac restarted.
Fix: Icey now saves where its icon and dividers are when it quits. macOS only saves an item's position when that item is dragged, so the dividers came back at stale positions and items changed sections. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested across many restarts.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#767: “[Feature Request]: Have new menubar items appear in always shown, or customizable”
Problem: A request for new items to appear in the visible section.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not available on macOS 27, where Icey can't move items yet.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#763: “[Bug]: Color Picker is broken for Menu Bar”
Problem: The color picker in Menu Bar Appearance didn't open or apply colors.
Fix: Works in the 0.11.13 code Icey is built on. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#762: “[Bug]: Cannot use Ice Bar nor Menu Bar layout icons”
Problem: On macOS 26.0.1 with 0.11.13-dev.2, neither the Ice Bar nor the Menu Bar Layout pane showed items.
Fix: Icey's helper for identifying items now connects in builds without an Apple developer team, so both show your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#759: “[Bug]: Ice Icon Disappearing after Hidden Items are shown”
Problem: Showing hidden items made the Ice icon disappear, as if Ice quit, and Ice had to be reopened.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#758: “[Bug]: Unable to re-arrange menu bar via Ice app”
Problem: Nothing showed up in Ice's layout pane, so items couldn't be rearranged.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#753: “[Bug]: Always Hidden items are empty under new Tahoe Beta 4”
Problem: With 0.11.13-dev.2 on a 26.1 beta, no hidden items were shown, with or without the Ice Bar, even after resetting permissions.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Ice Bar shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#744: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout settings is empty”
Problem: The layout pane's bars were empty, so the layout couldn't be changed.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#743: “[Bug]: I cannot see any icons”
Problem: Both sections of Menu Bar Layout were entirely blank.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#742: “[Bug]: I just installed Tahoe in my Mac and ICE is not working as it used to. I am attaching the log report sent back form IOS. Since the principal functionality that stopped work is to have the menu in a separate bar below the menu bar.”
Problem: After installing macOS 26, the Ice Bar below the menu bar stopped working and Ice crashed.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#741: “[Bug]: Apps gone from Ice Layout”
Problem: All apps disappeared from the layout pane, so hidden apps stayed in the visible section and couldn't be moved.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#740: “[Bug]: Crashes every time I use it”
Problem: After expanding hidden items with the arrow icon, Ice crashed and the items couldn't be collapsed.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#739: “[Bug]: No proper behaviour when multiple bar item of same app”
Problem: With three OneDrive accounts, clicking one of their items in the hidden section made the other two disappear.
Fix: Icey now tracks the item you click by its window, so items that look the same no longer affect each other. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested with several OneDrive accounts.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#730: “[Bug]: Menu bar layout in settings bug”
Problem: Menu Bar Layout didn't show any apps in the visible or hidden section for arranging.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#724: “[Feature Request]: Hide Ice icon from dock”
Problem: A request to keep the app out of the Dock.
Fix: Settings > Advanced > "Show Icey in the Dock while Settings is open" can be turned off to keep Icey out of the Dock and the app switcher. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#721: “[Bug]: Latest Tahoe Beta update gives Ice error, Ice freezes”
Problem: Ice showed an error instead of the hidden items, then stopped responding to clicks on its icon.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#717: “[Bug]: Show on swipe works but not scroll”
Problem: With the Ice Bar and "Show on scroll" on, a two-finger swipe on the trackpad opened the bar, but scrolling a mouse wheel did nothing.
Fix: Mouse wheel scrolling in the menu bar now shows and hides items too. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#716: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Layout BLANK (can't see any icons)”
Problem: After updating to macOS 26.0, Menu Bar Layout showed no icons in light, dark or auto appearance.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#714: “[Bug]: Show Ice bar on hover should not trigger in Mission Control view”
Problem: Moving the pointer to the top of the screen in Mission Control opened the Ice Bar or showed the hidden items.
Fix: Icey recognizes when Mission Control is open and doesn't show hidden items on hover or click while it is. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
There is no public way to detect Mission Control. Icey looks for the extra full-display window the Dock shows, measured on macOS 26.5.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#712: “[Feature Request]: Localize Ice”
Problem: A request to translate the app's interface.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#711: “[Bug]: "Unable to display menu bar items" | macOS Tahoe Version 26.0 (25A354) | Ice 0.11.13-dev.2”
Problem: With the Ice Bar on, hovering or clicking the menu bar showed "Unable to display menu bar items" instead of the hidden items.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Ice Bar shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#710: “[Bug]: Ice shows "Unable to display menu bar item" under macOS 26 Tahoe”
Problem: In both Ice's settings and the menu bar, items were replaced by "Unable to display menu bar item".
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#708: “[Bug]: Ice Bar and Show on Hover hovering area detection bug when system menu bar is on auto-hide mode”
Problem: With the menu bar set to hide automatically, only the very top edge of the screen showed hidden items, and the Ice Bar or the shown items closed as soon as the pointer moved.
Fix: Icey now treats the whole revealed menu bar as the menu bar, so hover, click and timed rehide work as they do with a menu bar that is always shown. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
On a display other than the one with the Icey icon, only the top edge still counts. Not yet tested with an auto-hiding menu bar.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#703: “[Feature Request]: Ice Bar only on Macs with a Notch”
Problem: A request to turn on the Ice Bar only for Macs whose display has a notch.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#702: “[Bug]: Hidden items randomly moved to always hidden items”
Problem: All hidden items sometimes moved into the always-hidden section at once.
Fix: When the always-hidden divider ends up on the wrong side, Icey now moves it left of the items that were hidden, instead of right next to the hidden divider, which pushed every hidden item into always-hidden. Icey also saves where its dividers are when it quits, so they come back in the same places. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
What puts the dividers in the wrong order in the first place isn't confirmed.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#699: “[Bug]: Check for updates stuck in Tahoe”
Problem: After updating to macOS 26, the automatic updates popup appeared at launch, and neither its buttons nor its checkbox worked.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#696: “[Bug]: nothing showing up in the menu editing”
Problem: The menu editing pane was empty.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#695: “[Bug]: ICE window opens on ICE menubar click + at login”
Problem: On macOS 26, Ice 0.11.12 opened its settings window at login and whenever you clicked its icon.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, which fixes this. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#694: “[Bug]: Once opened does not go back again”
Problem: After clicking the Ice icon, the hidden items stayed in the menu bar and didn't collapse again.
Fix: Icey no longer has the crash that stopped Ice from hiding the items again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
The 0.11.13-dev.2 part (item stays shown) is likely fixed by the item helper and move timeouts. Please retest.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#688: “[Bug]: stuck on automative update page on macOS 26”
Problem: On first launch, nothing on the update availability page responded, and Ice had to be force quit.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#687: “[Bug]: Doesn't display menu bar layout”
Problem: The layout pane said "Loading menu bar items" and never showed them.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, and says what's wrong when its divider is missing. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#686: “[Bug]: <bug title>Ice bar won't let me choose app”
Problem: The Ice Bar went away before an app in it could be chosen.
Fix: The Ice Bar's area now counts as inside the menu bar, so it stays open while you move to it and use it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#685: “Whitened sections in Menu Bar Layout”
Problem: The Visible and Hidden sections under Menu Bar Layout were white.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#682: “[Bug]: <Menebar Layout Pane>”
Problem: The Menu Bar Layout pane's three sections showed no icons, so nothing could be arranged.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#681: “[Bug]: "Check for updates automatically?" dialog buttons unresponsive”
Problem: Neither "Don't Check" nor "Check Automatically" responded to clicks, and the checkbox had no effect.
Fix: The dialog now comes to the front, takes clicks and remembers your answer. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#679: “[Bug]: "Unable to display menu bar items" on macOS Tahoe/Ice 0.11.13-dev.2”
Problem: With 0.11.13-dev.2 on macOS 26.0, the layout pane and the Ice icon's bar showed "Unable to display menu bar items", with all permissions granted.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#677: “[Bug]: Ice bar do not work:endless loading menu bar items”
Problem: With 0.11.13-dev.2 on macOS 26.0, the Ice Bar never finished loading items, although the first beta worked.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Ice Bar shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#676: “[Bug]: Empty space on the left side of the right menu bar when split, MacOS Tahoe”
Problem: The split shape's right half reaches further left than the items.
Fix: The right half of the split shape was as wide as every item window on the display added together, counting overlapping windows and items from other displays. It now runs from the right edge to the last item in the row. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested on macOS 26 with this setup.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#673: “[Bug]: Search Not Working, Mac OS Tahoe”
Problem: The search panel showed no items, either when opened or when searching.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so search lists them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#671: “[Bug]: unexpected closure”
Problem: After updating to macOS 26, clicking the Ice icon made it disappear with an "unexpected closure" message.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#669: “[Bug]: <crashes on MACOS 26 tahoe 26>”
Problem: Clicking Ice to show hidden icons showed them, then Ice quit unexpectedly.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#668: “[Bug]: Search Items issues”
Problem: Search listed items with placeholder names, and icons could be hard to see.
Fix: Icey identifies item owners on macOS 26 again, and search draws icons on the menu bar's color. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#665: “[Bug]: MacOS Tahoe Makes Ice Bar Invisible”
Problem: With the Ice Bar on, it was invisible on hover, and with the Ice icon location, Ice crashed.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#664: “[Bug]: MacOS Tahoe Breaks Menu Bar Layout Editor”
Problem: The layout editor appeared entirely white, so items couldn't be arranged between sections.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#657: “[Bug]: the Menu Bar's height with "Shape kind = full" is a few pixels too short on second monitor”
Problem: The full shape is slightly shorter than the menu bar on displays without a notch.
Fix: Shapes with square ends now fill the menu bar's full height on displays without a notch, as they already did on notched displays. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet checked on an external display.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#647: “[Bug]: <MacOS Tahoe app craches>”
Problem: Ice 0.11.12 didn't work at all on macOS 26.0.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#646: “[Bug]: Clickable area to activate Ice extends beyond menu bar to blank area of 2nd monitor.”
Problem: With the menu bar shown on one display only, moving the pointer or clicking near the top of the second display activated Ice, and right-clicking there opened Ice's menu.
Fix: With "Displays have separate Spaces" off, Icey now ignores the top of displays that have no menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested on a multi-display setup.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#644: “[Bug]: <Option-Click works randomly>”
Problem: Option-clicking sometimes didn't show the always-hidden section.
Fix: Option-click and Control-click now look only at Shift, Control, Option and Command, read from the click itself, so Caps Lock or the Fn key no longer turn them into a plain click. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
The Caps Lock and Fn cause comes from the code, not a reproduction.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#639: “[Bug]: Menu bar on multiple displays”
Problem: On a Mac Studio with three displays and the menu bar on one, right-clicking a Chrome tab at the top of another display opened Ice's menu instead of Chrome's.
Fix: Icey now ignores clicks at the top of displays that have no menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested on a multi-display setup.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#635: “Weird behavior under Tahoe MacOS 26 Public Beta 2”
Problem: Clicking empty space showed only a small, semi-transparent box instead of the hidden items.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#633: “[Bug]:macOS Tahoe 26中ice无法正常使用”
Problem: After upgrading to a macOS 26 beta, Ice no longer worked properly.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#621: “[Bug]: Can't fully interact with hidden menu items”
Problem: A hidden item's submenu (Citrix) closed while in use.
Fix: A click inside an app's menu or popover no longer counts as a click outside, so smart rehide doesn't close it mid-use. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with Citrix.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#620: “[Bug]:Hide application menus when showing menu bar items”
Problem: Application menus weren't hidden on macOS 15.
Fix: Same fix as #879: Icey now activates even when macOS refuses its request, so the app menus hide. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested on an M1 MacBook Air.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#608: “[Bug]: Split menu bar holds onto a large amount of blank space to the”
Problem: With the split shape, the right half kept a large blank space to the left of the items, on an external display.
Fix: The right half of the split shape was as wide as every item window on the display added together, counting overlapping windows and items from other displays. It now runs from the right edge to the last item in the row. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested on an external display.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#603: “[Bug]: App launches, then immediately crashes, on macOS Tahoe Beta 3”
Problem: On a 2022 MacBook Pro with a macOS 26 beta, Ice appeared for a split second and then crashed.
Fix: Icey is built on the later macOS 26 code, which no longer has the conversions that crashed. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Crash log is unsymbolicated; matches the same family of crashes.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#595: “[Bug]: Option-click should expand even when enable always-hidden section is turned off”
Problem: Option-clicking did nothing when the always-hidden section was turned off.
Fix: Option-click now shows the hidden section when there is no always-hidden section. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#590: “App duplicates itself in dock on Tahoe”
Problem: After clicking the menu bar a few times, Ice showed up twice in the Dock and couldn't be force quit.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, which no longer crashes or hangs when the menu bar is clicked. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#563: “[Bug]: Ice occasionally crashes.”
Problem: An unsymbolicated crash in Ice 0.11.12.
Fix: The crash was an empty list in the code that shows a hidden item when Ice couldn't find its divider. Icey checks for that case and doesn't crash. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Traced from the attached crash log against Ice 0.11.12.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#545: “[Bug]: ice bar sometimes doesn't show anything”
Problem: The Ice Bar opened empty, for example after a space change.
Fix: Item images are cached even when macOS doesn't report which display has the active menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#544: “[Feature Request]: Disable in full screen mode”
Problem: A request to turn off the menu bar appearance while an app is fullscreen.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#526: “[Bug]: Ice Causing issues with the behaviour of the Motioncontrol Light app. The brights slider keeps disappearing when trying to adjust screen brightness”
Problem: MotionControl Light's brightness slider closed while it was being adjusted, because Ice hid the items again.
Fix: Same fix as #403: dragging a slider in another app's popover no longer hides the items and closes it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with MotionControl Light.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#521: “[Bug]: Background visible when entering fullscreen on video. or other application”
Problem: Entering fullscreen video or another fullscreen app left the split shape's background visible.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#468: “[Feature Request]: Disable / Customize Menu Bar Appearance in Full Screen Mode”
Problem: A request to turn off or change the menu bar appearance in fullscreen mode, where it looked out of place.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#456: “[Bug]: Ice interferes with right-click on title bar on display where menu bar is not displayed”
Problem: With "Displays have separate Spaces" off, right-clicking a document title or tab near the top of a secondary display also opened Ice's menu, and Ice's "Show on" settings swallowed clicks there.
Fix: Icey now ignores the top of displays that have no menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested on a multi-display setup.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#452: “[Bug]: Automatically rehide takes affect even when inside a hidden items menu options”
Problem: Automatic rehide hid items while one of their menus was open.
Fix: Timed rehide and show on hover now wait while an item's menu or popover is open below the menu bar, instead of hiding the items and closing it. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
A menu bar app that keeps a window open under the menu bar all the time would also hold rehide off.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#451: “[Bug]: Unexpected behavior after swiping between desktop and full screen apps”
Problem: After swiping between the desktop and fullscreen apps, the split shape drew the wallpaper over the app.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#435: “[Bug]: Glitch when toggle dock”
Problem: Showing or hiding the Dock with Option-Command-D made the menu bar appearance flicker.
Fix: Icey no longer rebuilds the menu bar appearance when only the Dock changes, only when displays change. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#434: “[Bug]: Hide Application Menus doesn't unless Enable always-hidden section is toggled on”
Problem: With the always-hidden section turned off, showing hidden items never hid the application menus, even when the items ran into them.
Fix: Icey now checks the items you just showed against the application menus, so the menus hide when they need to. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Some reports where it also fails with the always-hidden section on have a different cause, tracked in #620 and #879.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#409: “[Bug]: macOS Sequoia requires a restart of Ice to render the menubar border”
Problem: The menu bar border didn't show until Ice was relaunched.
Fix: Icey now tries again for about two minutes when the menu bar isn't there yet at login, instead of giving up until the next space change. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with a login on macOS 15.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#404: “[Bug]: OneDrive changes from "Hidden" to "Visible" on click”
Problem: With a personal and a business OneDrive account, clicking one hidden OneDrive item left both items in the visible section for good.
Fix: Icey now moves back the item you clicked, by its window, rather than the first item with the same name. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested with several OneDrive accounts.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#403: “[Bug]: Make smart mode smarter: Don't collapse the menu bar icons when toggling switches of switch app”
Problem: Using a switch or slider in another app's menu bar popover closed it, because Ice hid the items.
Fix: Smart rehide now ignores clicks inside menus and menu bar app popovers, so switches and sliders in them stay open. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with OnlySwitch.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#401: “[Bug]: Ice Bar appears and will not disappear when using "Show on hover" with a delay set to 0”
Problem: With show on hover and a delay of 0, the Ice Bar appeared and never went away.
Fix: Hover can always hide the bar again; a click in the menu bar no longer turns that off. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#392: “[Bug]: Modified menu bar item spacing value is not shown when settings appears after launch”
Problem: The spacing slider showed 0 after relaunching.
Fix: The slider now follows the saved value once settings load, so it no longer shows the default after launch. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#383: “[Bug]: Disabling displays have separate spaces not working”
Problem: With "Displays have separate Spaces" off, hovering or right-clicking the top of a display without a menu bar showed hidden items or Ice's menu.
Fix: Icey now checks whether the display has a menu bar before reacting to the pointer there. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested on a multi-display setup.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#337: “[Bug]: Menu bar appearance uses wallpaper from previous space when swiping through spaces in Mission Control”
Problem: After swiping to another space in Mission Control, the split or rounded shape showed the previous space's wallpaper.
Fix: Icey uses the wallpaper of the space the display is showing now, captures it again a second after the switch, and waits for Mission Control to close before capturing. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#336: “[Bug]: Split Type Ice Bar keeps the wallpaper from the previous space when switching spaces/screens”
Problem: With the split shape, switching spaces or screens kept the previous space's wallpaper behind the menu bar.
Fix: Icey uses the wallpaper of the space the display is showing now and captures it again a second after the switch. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Same fix as #337.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#331: “[Bug]: Hidden icons cannot be displayed when menu bar automatically hidden while in full screen”
Problem: With the menu bar hidden automatically in fullscreen, hidden items couldn't be shown from the revealed menu bar.
Fix: Icey now counts the whole revealed menu bar as the menu bar. The shape drawn over fullscreen apps, also mentioned, was fixed in 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested with an auto-hiding menu bar.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#326: “[Feature Request]: Custom configuration path / export settings”
Problem: A request for settings export.
Fix: Settings > Advanced > Export Settings… saves Icey's settings to a JSON file, and Import Settings… loads one and relaunches Icey. Item order and spacing aren't included. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#312: “[Bug]: No items in Menu Bar”
Problem: The Ice Bar and the layout pane were empty until you switched spaces or apps.
Fix: Item images are cached even when macOS doesn't report which display has the active menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#303: “[Feature Request]: Use Ice Bar only when screen size is smaller than <enter resolution>”
Problem: A request for a resolution-based Ice Bar.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose Displays narrower than… and set the width. Wider displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#299: “[Feature Request]: Always show hidden items if monitor screen is larger than <enter resolution>”
Problem: A request for a resolution-based setting.
Fix: Settings > Displays: turn on Show hidden items automatically for the large monitor. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#286: “[Bug]: Show on click/scroll not working on non-fullscreen, auto-hidden menu bar”
Problem: With the menu bar set to hide automatically and an app not in fullscreen, clicking or scrolling in the menu bar didn't show hidden items.
Fix: Icey now counts the whole revealed menu bar, not only the screen's top row, so click and scroll work there. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Not yet tested with an auto-hiding menu bar.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#260: “[Bug]: Both inset menu bar shape and Ice Bar are too short on notched display when set to a lower resolution”
Problem: At scaled resolutions, the inset shape and Ice Bar clipped the icons.
Fix: The inset shape and the Ice Bar now shrink their inset on a shorter menu bar, so they're never shorter than the items. Default resolutions look the same as before. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested at a lower resolution on a notched display.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#254: “[Bug]: Transparent items in Ice Bar while in fullscreen mode”
Problem: Items in the Ice Bar were blank or transparent in fullscreen mode.
Fix: Icey rejects transparent captures and keeps the previous image. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#234: “[Bug]: Rapidly switching spaces breaks Ice Bar item display”
Problem: Rapidly switching spaces left the Ice Bar with missing or wrong item images.
Fix: Icey rejects transparent captures and refreshes images on every space change. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#223: “[Feature Request]: Ability to enable Ice Bar only when on built-in display”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar on the laptop screen only.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#216: “[Bug]: Menu bar appearance shows above Mission Control after deleting a space”
Problem: After a space was deleted in Mission Control, the menu bar appearance was drawn on top of the space switcher.
Fix: Icey waits for Mission Control to close before it puts the menu bar appearance back on screen. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Uses the same Mission Control detection as #714.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#212: “[Bug]: Ice Bar doesn't reliably change color when activated on a new desktop”
Problem: The Ice Bar kept the color of the previous desktop.
Fix: The Ice Bar reads the menu bar color again every time it opens. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#144: “[Bug]: Doing opt click after click does not hide app menus”
Problem: Showing the always-hidden section with Option-click after a click left the app menus in place.
Fix: Icey now waits for the items to move before checking whether they reach the app menus, and checks once more, so Option-click after a click hides the menus. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Adds about 100 ms before the menus hide.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#53: “[Bug]: Any change in monitors while Mac is asleep removes styling”
Problem: After sleep with a display change, the menu bar appearance disappeared until a space or display change.
Fix: Icey now shows the styling again when the displays wake, and keeps trying if the menu bar comes back late. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with a display change during sleep.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1016: “[Bug]: meu bar layout is not loading only”
Problem: On macOS 27.0.1 with Ice 0.11.13-dev.2, the Menu Bar Layout pane kept loading and never showed any items.
Fix: Icey includes early macOS 27 support, so the layout editor loads your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #1003 and #1010.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#761: “[Bug]: Unable to see icons in Menu Bar Layout Settings”
Problem: On macOS 26.0.1 the Menu Bar Layout sections were plain white rows, and 0.11.13-dev.2 showed "Unable to display menu bar items" instead.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743 and #679. A commenter said it only happened with "Displays have separate Spaces" turned off. That setup is untested in Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#684: “[Bug]: Mac OS 26 - Ice quits / Not working suttendly”
Problem: On macOS 26, Ice quit every so often, usually right after its menu bar icon was clicked.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #669. The crash log traps while reading a status bar window number.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#654: “[Tahoe] 'Menu Bar Layout' in Settings blank”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, the Visible, Hidden and Always-Hidden previews in Menu Bar Layout were blank.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#632: “[Bug]: Visible and unvisible sections are totally white!”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, the visible and hidden sections in Menu Bar Layout were completely white.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#629: “[Bug]: Empty bars in menu bar layout (macOS 26)”
Problem: On macOS 26, the Visible and Hidden sections in Menu Bar Layout were blank, so nothing could be changed.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#628: “[Bug]: Empty bars in menu bar layout and crash when clicking Ice icon (macOS 26)”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, Menu Bar Layout was empty and clicking the Ice icon made it disappear instead of showing hidden items.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code: the conversion that crashed is gone, and the layout pane shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #877.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#615: “[Bug]: When using ice bar it crashes”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, turning on the Ice Bar and clicking the Ice icon crashed Ice.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #786.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#614: “[Bug]: The "Menu Bar Layout" page is blank and cannot be operated”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, the Menu Bar Layout sections were blank and couldn't be used.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#611: “[Bug]: Empty bars in Menu Bar Layout (macOS 26 Tahoe)”
Problem: On the macOS 26 public beta, Menu Bar Layout showed empty white bars.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#607: “[Bug]: Ice app doesn't work in Tahoe Beta 3 - Mutiple Issues”
Problem: On macOS 26 beta 3, clicking the Ice icon quit the app, and Menu Bar Layout was blank.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code: the conversion that crashed is gone, and the layout pane shows your items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #877.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#602: “[Bug]: macOS 26: App crashes on click of the menu bar item”
Problem: On macOS 26 beta 3, clicking the Ice icon crashed the app, but only with the Ice Bar turned on.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #786.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#597: “[Bug]: Crashing upon multiple clicking on status menu icon”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, clicking the Ice icon a few times crashed the app.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #669. Same crash location as #684.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#596: “[Bug]: <macOS Tahoe - Menu-bar icon shows only a transparent bar>”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, clicking the Ice icon showed a thin transparent bar with no items in it.
Fix: Icey is built on the macOS 26 code, and the conversion that crashed is gone. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #635.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#592: “[Bug]: Can't change the Menu Bar Layout”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, Menu Bar Layout showed only white space, and changes made by Command-dragging didn't show up there.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the Menu Bar Layout pane shows them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#585: “[Bug]: macOS Tahoe 26 display failed”
Problem: On a macOS 26 developer beta, Menu Bar Layout showed nothing, and switching to dark mode didn't help.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again and keeps the pane readable when the menu bar color can't be read. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #716.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#583: “[Bug]: macOS 26: menu bar layout screen completely blank/white”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, Menu Bar Layout was completely white, and searching menu bar items showed nothing either.
Fix: Icey identifies menu bar items on macOS 26 again, so the layout pane and search show them. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #743.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#577: “[Feature Request]: <feature title>When can you support Chinese?”
Problem: A request for a Chinese version of the app.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Same as #801.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#549: “[Feature Request]: <feature title>语言选项”
Problem: A request for a Chinese version of the app.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Same as #801 and #787.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#520: “[Bug]: New items default to always-hidden section”
Problem: Items from newly launched apps appeared in the always-hidden section.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #767. Not available on macOS 27.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#505: “[Feature Request]: Show menubar icons of new apps as visible by default”
Problem: A request for new apps' items to appear in the visible section.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #767. Not available on macOS 27.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#498: “[Bug]: App blocking option+a”
Problem: Option-A no longer typed å while Ice was running, because it was saved as the always-hidden section's hotkey while that section was turned off.
Fix: Icey no longer registers the always-hidden section's hotkey while that section is turned off, so its keys type normally again. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.5.
The hotkey recorder is hidden while the section is off. Turn the section on to change or clear the hotkey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#580: “[Bug]: MacOS 26 crash when pressing the "more" button”
Problem: On macOS 26, pressing the button that shows hidden items crashed Ice.
Fix: The code that crashed is gone, and similar conversions elsewhere no longer crash on unexpected values. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same cause as #977.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#709: “[Bug]: Ice stops working in Mac OS 26 Tahoe”
Problem: On macOS 26 Tahoe, clicking the dots to expand the menu bar made Ice stop working.
Fix: Icey is built on Ice's Tahoe rewrite and works on macOS 26. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#474: “[Feature Request]: Localization”
Problem: A request to translate the interface.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Same as #230.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#470: “[Bug]: menu bar layout not recalling prior after restart”
Problem: After a restart, items were spread over the wrong sections and had to be arranged again.
Fix: Icey now saves where its icon and dividers are when it quits, and repairs them if they end up out of order, so items come back in their sections. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Upstream closed it as #344. The whole layout changing at once is #769 and #702.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#465: “[Feature Request]: pause functionality when connected to big screen”
Problem: A request to use Ice only on the notched built-in display, and to show every item on a large external display.
Fix: Settings > Displays has, for each display, Use Ice Bar (Follow, On or Off) and Show hidden items automatically. Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on can also limit the Ice Bar to displays narrower than a width you set. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Covers #223, #299 and #303.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#433: “[Bug]: "Menu bar item spacing" randomly starts hidden applications when setting a value”
Problem: Applying a menu bar item spacing restarted apps so that some ran twice or crashed.
Fix: Apply now asks each app to quit and waits up to ten seconds, never force quits your apps, and doesn't start an app again if it is already running. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
#27 also stopped a quit app's old process from counting as running.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#375: “[Bug]: Ice Settings window does not show up [OS 18.1 beta 4-5]”
Problem: Choosing Settings from the Ice menu did nothing until Ice was relaunched.
Fix: Settings opens from the Icey menu and the app icon. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #371, fixed in Ice 0.11.4, which Icey is built on.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#345: “[Bug]: Closing / Deleting App doesn't remove from Menu Bar Items Section in Ice”
Problem: After quitting or deleting an app, its item stayed in Menu Bar Layout until Ice restarted.
Fix: Icey reads the items again when an app quits, so its item leaves Menu Bar Layout within a few seconds. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #332, fixed in Ice before Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#324: “[Feature Request]: Multi-language support”
Problem: A request to translate the interface, starting with Simplified Chinese.
Fix: Icey is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. macOS picks the language from System Settings > General > Language & Region. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#238: “[Bug]: Ice cannot display menu bar items for automatically hidden menu bars.”
Problem: With the menu bar set to hide automatically, hovering, clicking or scrolling didn't show the hidden items, and right-clicking showed no menu.
Fix: Icey now counts the whole revealed menu bar as the menu bar, so show on hover, click and scroll, and the right-click menu, work when the menu bar hides automatically. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.2.
Same as #331. Not yet tested with a menu bar that hides automatically.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#191: “[Bug]: Bad toolbar rendering for multiple monitors at different resolutions”
Problem: With two displays at different resolutions, the tint and border were cut off or misaligned on one of them.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay, sized to that display's menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #97, fixed in Ice before Icey. The split shape on several displays is #359.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#168: “The bar shows an error when I have multiple screens.”
Problem: With several displays, the appearance looked right on the main display but had the wrong height on the other.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay, sized to that display's menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #97, fixed in Ice before Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#153: “Menubar looks funky on fullscreen”
Problem: The tint and shape stayed at the top of the screen over fullscreen apps.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140 and #544.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#137: “[Bug]: Can see menu bar while in full screen”
Problem: With rounded ends turned on, the menu bar outline stayed visible in fullscreen.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140 and #544.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#127: “[Bug]: Multi monitor wrong bar width and position”
Problem: With displays at different resolutions, the menu bar appearance had the wrong width and position on one of them.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay, sized to that display's menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #97, fixed in Ice before Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#124: “[Bug]: Click to reveal hidden items causing the hidden apps to go underneath the app menu bar items”
Problem: Clicking the Ice icon sometimes showed the hidden items underneath the app menus, which weren't hidden.
Fix: Icey now waits for the shown items to move before checking whether they reach the app menus, and activates anyway when macOS refuses, so the menus hide instead of covering the items. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #60, fixed in Ice. Icey also fixed #144 and #879.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#114: “[Bug]: <Wrong menu bar size with external display connected>”
Problem: With an external display attached, the appearance was too thin on one display or twice as thick on the other.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay, sized to that display's menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #97, fixed in Ice before Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#104: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Items that overflow past notch not visible in split mode.”
Problem: With the split shape, app menus that continued past the notch were invisible, though they still opened.
Fix: The split shape's left part now covers every app menu on the notched display, including menus past the notch. Fixed in Icey 0.11.12-icey.1.
Same as #103, fixed in Ice before Icey.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#66: “[Bug]: <YouTube Full Screen doesn't cover menu bar>”
Problem: In fullscreen videos and apps, part of the menu bar appearance stayed visible at the top.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140 and #544.
Fixedjordanbaird/Ice#35: “Menu background in full screen video on Firefox”
Problem: With a fullscreen YouTube video in Firefox, the menu bar's background stayed over the top of the video.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Fixed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140. Firefox 124 and later use the macOS fullscreen mode.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#1004: “Unable to proceed past permissions request.”
Problem: System Settings showed Accessibility or Screen Recording as enabled, but Ice still asked for it.
Fix: Icey explains what to do: remove the app from the list in System Settings with the minus button, then add it again. Screen Recording granted while Icey runs now takes effect without a relaunch. The permissions window now also has a link that opens the right System Settings list, where a stale entry can be removed. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#929: “Menu bar scaling and layout issues on external/built-in displays”
Problem: With an external and a built-in display, item images were shown at the wrong scale.
Fix: Item images now use the scale of the display they were captured on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on a two-display setup.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#987: “Ice Bar icons shrink drastically when expanded on an external display”
Problem: On an external display, the Ice Bar's icons were drawn much smaller than they should be.
Fix: Item images now take their scale from the capture itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on a two-display setup.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#955: “Scale error and auto-deploying”
Problem: Ice Bar icons were scaled wrong when shown on another display.
Fix: Item images now take their scale from the capture itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on a two-display setup.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#910: “iPad appearance tint shows on main monitor when the iPad is used as an extended display”
Problem: With an iPad used as an extended display (Sidecar), a tint strip from the menu bar appearance showed on the main display.
Fix: An appearance overlay that ends up on another display now hides itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed with an iPad.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#908: “Ice appears to have caused system-wide freeze & kernel panic after ~33 hours of uptime”
Problem: A Mac froze after about 33 hours of uptime with Ice running. Ice retried moving an item every 3 seconds forever when it couldn't put it back.
Fix: The crashing code from Ice 0.11.12 is gone. Retries now back off and stop after five rounds, and Icey recovers when its divider reappears. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
The freeze itself hasn't been reproduced.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#918: “When icon for Intego One is moved from hidden to visible bar in settings, the icon disappears”
Problem: Moving Intego One's icon from the hidden to the visible section made it disappear.
Fix: After a failed move, the pane now redraws instead of dropping the icon. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
The slow response looks specific to Intego.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#899: “[Bug]: Ice triggering while clicking just under the menu bar in fullscreen”
Problem: In fullscreen, clicking just below the hidden menu bar showed the hidden items.
Fix: The top of a fullscreen display counts as the menu bar only while its menu bar is showing: with the Icey icon on another display, and now also with the Icey icon turned off. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
With the Icey icon on the same display, no cause found.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#888: “[Bug]: Cannot use ice bar when which between windows”
Problem: After switching between fullscreen windows or spaces, the Ice Bar opened empty or not at all, and Ice could freeze until force quit.
Fix: A space change while the Ice Bar opens keeps it closed, stuck moves and clicks time out, and the Ice Bar now opens within a second even when updating its images stalls, instead of never opening again. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Not reproduced.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#865: “[Bug]: macOS 26.3 beta 3 prevents Ice from expanding”
Problem: On macOS 26.2 and the 26.3 betas, clicking the Ice icon expanded nothing, and Ice could stop responding.
Fix: The Ice Bar now opens within a second even if reading the items or their images stalls, and requests to Icey's item helper no longer tie up the threads the rest of the app needs. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
The exact cause in the report isn't known. Please retest.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#863: “[Bug]: Black square appears in bottom-right corner of primary display when secondary display has fullscreen window”
Problem: With an external display set as primary, a black square appeared in its bottom-right corner while the other display had a fullscreen window.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#861: “[Bug]: unable to move icons to hidden section”
Problem: Moving items timed out on macOS 15.
Fix: After a failed move, the pane now redraws to show where the item really is, instead of where it was dropped. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
The timeout itself isn't addressed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#858: “[Bug]: second screen layout wrong display”
Problem: With a fullscreen app on the built-in screen, the menu bar appearance was drawn wrongly on the second screen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#845: “[Bug]: Hidden menubar items not selectable”
Problem: Items shown from the hidden section didn't open when clicked on macOS 26.2.
Fix: With Caps Lock on, Icey waited for a key release that never came, so items clicked in the Ice Bar never opened. Caps Lock no longer blocks clicks. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
May not be the reporter's cause; please retest.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#834: “[Bug]:”
Problem: Ice kept asking for permissions that System Settings showed as granted.
Fix: Remove the app from the list in System Settings > Privacy & Security with the minus button, then add Icey again. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #1004.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#829: “[Bug]: the ice bar cannot show the proper size when second monitor connected”
Problem: With a second monitor connected, the Ice Bar didn't show at the proper size.
Fix: Item images now use the scale of the display they were captured on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same cause as #987 and #929. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#825: “[Bug]: "show on click" on secondary screen shows the extra Ice bar in a small resolution”
Problem: With show on click on a secondary screen, the Ice Bar's items were drawn small, as if at a lower resolution.
Fix: Item images now use the scale of the display they were captured on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same cause as #987 and #929. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#799: “[Bug]: Menu bar items not disappearing”
Problem: Items shown from the Ice Bar didn't hide again after clicking away.
Fix: Icey no longer mistakes a menu bar item that appears after the click for the item's open menu, which kept it waiting to hide the item forever. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Another menu bar app showed the same problem, so macOS may be involved too.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#790: “[Bug]: Multiple monitors freeze”
Problem: With an external monitor connected, Ice stopped responding to hover and clicks.
Fix: Item captures no longer take the slow path, the Ice Bar no longer waits indefinitely for them, and requests to Icey's item helper on macOS 26 can no longer use up the threads the app needs to respond. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#780: “[Bug]: Bug on Vertical Monitors”
Problem: With a vertical monitor, the menu bar appearance was drawn in the wrong place.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #910. Not yet confirmed on a vertical display.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#766: “[Bug]: App with dropdown from menu bar (Mullvad VPN) appears as it auto-hides”
Problem: Mullvad VPN's window opened by itself when Icey hid its item again after it was shown from the Ice Bar.
Fix: When moving an item, Icey no longer sends an extra mouse release after the item has moved, which apps like Mullvad took for a click. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Cause inferred from the code, not reproduced.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#757: “[Bug]: Pointer disappearing after clicking on icons in ICE popup bar”
Problem: After clicking an icon in the Ice popup bar, the pointer disappeared.
Fix: Same fix as #751: the pointer is hidden only while each move posts its events. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
The link to a larger pointer size isn't explained.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#751: “[Bug]: The cursor is not visible after clicking the ICE icon and then selecting a hidden icon from the ICE bar.”
Problem: After clicking the Ice icon and then a hidden item in the Ice Bar, the pointer stayed invisible until Ice was quit.
Fix: Icey now hides the pointer only while each move posts its events, not while it waits for the mouse to stop, so it no longer stays hidden while you move it. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Please retest.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#750: “[Bug]: Weird line always drawn on secondary monitor”
Problem: A thin line from the menu bar appearance stayed on the secondary monitor.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #910. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#732: “[Bug]: Docker for Mac ends up in "Always-Hidden Section" over time”
Problem: Docker for Mac's item, and in the comments other hidden items, moved into the always-hidden section over time.
Fix: Same fixes as #702: the dividers keep their places across restarts, and fixing their order no longer empties the hidden section. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
An app that recreates its item while Icey runs uses its own saved position, which Icey doesn't control.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#729: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Item Stuck After Ice Bar Click When Live Activities are Active”
Problem: While iPhone Live Activities were in the menu bar, an item clicked in the Ice Bar stayed in the visible section and never hid again until Ice was restarted.
Fix: After moving a shown item back, Icey now checks that it really is back in its section and moves it there if not. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
The link to Live Activities is inferred from the code.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#704: “[Bug]: menu bar items (iphone notifications) cannot be moved”
Problem: Moving an iPhone Live Activity item failed with "took too long to respond".
Fix: When an item never responds to being moved, the alert now says the item didn't move and that some items, such as iPhone Live Activities, may not allow being moved. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Icey still can't move these items. Whether macOS allows moving them is unconfirmed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#698: “[Bug]: On Tahoe, Items appear different sizes across monitor and laptop screen”
Problem: On macOS 26, items appeared at different sizes on the external monitor and the laptop screen.
Fix: Item images now use the scale of the display they were captured on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same cause as #987 and #929. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#655: “[Bug]: ICE - Some Apps icons not appearing in the Menu Bar Layout setting”
Problem: Some apps' items didn't show in Menu Bar Layout on macOS 15.
Fix: An item touching a divider at a fractional position on a scaled display was in no section and was left out of the layout pane and the Ice Bar. Icey now allows the same small tolerance it uses for moves. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
May not be the reporter's cause; please retest.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#642: “[Bug]: Clicking on BusyCal Menu in hidden section opened Apple Menu instead”
Problem: Clicking BusyCal in the Ice Bar opened the Apple menu instead, and the Apple menu sometimes opened by itself.
Fix: Icey only clicks an item where it is when the item is on a display. Otherwise it shows the item first, and it never clicks at a point that is off every display. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Fixes the most likely cause. The random Apple menu openings aren't confirmed fixed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#636: “[Bug]: <bug title> Shows weird bar when connected to monitor”
Problem: With an app fullscreen on the MacBook, a menu bar cutout, sometimes with the notch shape, appeared on the external monitor.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#627: “[Bug]: Menu bar appearance not being displayed”
Problem: Menu bar appearance settings had no effect.
Fix: The appearance editor now says when Icey lacks the Screen Recording permission it needs to draw the appearance, links to it, and applies the appearance as soon as it's granted. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
A missing permission is one confirmed way to get this. The report has no other details.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#609: “Random bar in the middle of the screen”
Problem: Outside fullscreen, a bar shaped like the menu bar's border appeared in the middle of the screen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#586: “[Bug]: protonvpn app icon presses itself when it hides itself after being opened from ice bar”
Problem: ProtonVPN's item clicked itself when it was hidden again after being opened from the Ice Bar.
Fix: When moving an item, Icey no longer sends an extra mouse release after the item has moved, so hiding it again shouldn't click it. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Same cause as #766. The other report, that clicking it in the Ice Bar didn't open it, isn't addressed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#576: “[Bug]: <UI Bar Appearing on Main Display When Playing Fullscreen Video on Extended Display>”
Problem: Playing a video fullscreen on the built-in screen made a bar appear on the main external monitor.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#573: “[Bug]: Widescreen Monitors Hidden Menu Always Visible”
Problem: On a widescreen monitor, the hidden section's items stayed visible.
Fix: The split shape's right half no longer stretches across the hidden items. The items themselves still show. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
macOS limits how far a divider can push items to about 5,000 points, which is less than the width of this display.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#567: “[Bug]: Clicking on the menus in some apps triggers Ice”
Problem: Clicking some apps' menus showed hidden items.
Fix: Show on click and show on hover now do nothing while an app's menu is open, so moving between its menus no longer shows the hidden items. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
The first click on a menu title still depends on measuring the app menus.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#555: “[Feature Request]: <Disable / alt settings with external monitor>”
Problem: A request for per-display settings.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Only the Ice Bar can differ per display; other settings can't.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#550: “[Bug]: <bug title>With VMWare + Windows 11, ICE shows menu bar in the middle of an external monitor”
Problem: While using a Windows 11 VM in VMware, the external display showed an empty Mac menu bar.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#541: “[Bug]: Split view broke with extended screens”
Problem: With extended displays, the MacBook's split menu bar shape appeared in the middle of another display.
Fix: An appearance overlay that ends up on another display now hides itself. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same fix as #910. Not confirmed with this display arrangement.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#529: “[Bug]: The right bar is longer than expected on ultrawide screen”
Problem: On an ultrawide screen, the right half of the split shape was longer than its items.
Fix: The right half of the split shape was as wide as every item window on the display added together, counting overlapping windows and items from other displays. It now runs from the right edge to the last item in the row. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Hidden items can still show on very wide displays (#94).
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#525: “[Bug]: split menu bar and related effects seemingly disabled in macOS 15.3.2”
Problem: After a macOS update, the split shape, borders and other appearance effects stopped working.
Fix: The appearance editor now says when Icey lacks the Screen Recording permission it needs to draw the appearance, links to it, and applies the appearance as soon as it's granted. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
macOS updates can make Screen Recording need approving again. Unconfirmed that this was the cause.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#517: “[Bug]:Bar in the middle of the screen”
Problem: The menu bar shape was drawn in the middle of the screen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#513: “[Bug]: Hidden icons end up in the Visible section after some interactions”
Problem: An item opened from the Ice Bar sometimes stayed in the visible section.
Fix: Icey now checks that a shown item is back in its section after hiding it again, no longer waits forever when the item's app adds or recreates a menu bar item on click, and keeps retrying if the item is briefly missing. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Quitting Icey while an item is shown still leaves it visible.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#463: “[Feature Request]: Make the "Use Ice Bar" toggle dynamic”
Problem: A request for a dynamic "Use Ice Bar" setting.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
There is no automatic switch based on free space; the display rule covers the common notched laptop plus external display case.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#445: “Menu bar in middle of screen”
Problem: After leaving a fullscreen window, the rounded menu bar shape appeared in the middle of the screen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#444: “[Bug]: Large icons in Menu Bar Layout Settings”
Problem: Icons in the Menu Bar Layout settings were drawn much larger than in the menu bar.
Fix: Item images now use the scale of the display they were captured on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same cause as #987 and #929. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#359: “[Bug]: Menubars are not correct with external display on MacBook Pro”
Problem: With an external display, the split was too wide on the external display and missing on the built-in one.
Fix: Each display now uses its own application menu and fullscreen state for the split shape. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Not yet confirmed on two displays. Please retest in Icey.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#330: “[Bug]: Can not work with Focus Menu Bar Item (https://heyfocus.com)”
Problem: Focus's popover closed, and the hidden items hid again, as soon as Focus's item was clicked.
Fix: Rehide waits while a menu bar app's popover is open, and clicks inside one don't count as clicks outside, so the popover stays open. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same fix as #403. Reported on Ice 0.10.5 and not retested with Focus.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#329: “[Bug]: When turning off "Show ice icon" and the turning it back on, the icon doesn't automatically repopulate”
Problem: Turning "Show Ice icon" off and on again didn't bring the icon back.
Fix: The Icey icon now applies its image and width again when it's turned back on. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Couldn't be reproduced upstream either.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#300: “[Bug]: Rearranging icons with multiple instances of OneDrive”
Problem: With two OneDrive accounts, one OneDrive item sometimes disappeared from Menu Bar Layout while rearranging.
Fix: A section could stay frozen, or an item blank, after a drag. Both now redraw when the drag ends. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Not yet tested with several OneDrive accounts.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#283: “[Bug]: Ice's view of the menu bar is missing the icon for AltTab”
Problem: AltTab's item didn't show in Menu Bar Layout on 0.10.3.
Fix: A section of the layout pane could stop updating after an item was dragged out of it, so new items didn't appear. It now catches up when the drag ends. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
May not be the reporter's trigger; please retest.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#239: “[Bug]: Some menu bar clip issue while using Menu bar split shape ”
Problem: The split shape clipped menus near the notch, in fullscreen, and when entering Mission Control.
Fix: Icey no longer draws the appearance over fullscreen spaces, and waits for Mission Control to close before drawing it again. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
The notch case was reported on 0.10.2 and needs retesting.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#233: “[Bug]: Re-arranging/dragging items in the "Hidden" settings pane makes them disappear ”
Problem: Rearranging items in the layout pane made them vanish, with separate Spaces per display.
Fix: The pane no longer stays stale after rearranging, which is one way items seemed to disappear. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Possibly a moved item landing in another display's area when that display is to the left. Not confirmed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#201: “[Bug]: Can't arrange or display menu bar items when the menu bar is automatically hidden”
Problem: The layout pane and Ice Bar don't work with an auto-hidden menu bar.
Fix: Icey no longer shows an error for menu bars that hide automatically. Arrange items while the menu bar is shown. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Not tested with a menu bar that hides itself.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#95: “[Feature Request]: Cross-Device Syncing”
Problem: A request for settings sync.
Fix: Settings can be moved between Macs by hand with Export and Import Settings in Settings > Advanced. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
There is no automatic sync.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#6: “[Feature Request] Change the location where new menu bar icons come up.”
Problem: A request to change the location where new menu bar icons show up, instead of the far left.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch; Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#663: “[Bug]: <Menu bar clipping showing up on secondary monitor>”
Problem: With an app fullscreen on the main display, a piece of the menu bar shape appeared on the secondary display.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #636. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#653: “[Bug]: Hidden Menu Bar Icons Persist in Main Bar After Use”
Problem: After clicking a hidden item, it moved into the visible menu bar and never went back to the hidden section.
Fix: Icey no longer mistakes a menu bar item that appears after the click for the item's open menu, checks that a shown item really is back in its section, and keeps retrying if the item is briefly missing. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Same as #799.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#652: “[Feature Request]: Automatically enable/disable Ice Bar based on screen size or monitor configuration”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar only on small screens and turn it off on large external monitors.
Fix: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on: choose All displays, Displays with a notch, or Built-in display. Other displays show hidden items in the menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #463. There is no screen-size threshold.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#572: “[Bug]: Persistent Issue: New Icons Default to "Always Hidden"”
Problem: New items always landed in the always-hidden section, and some items, such as Do Not Disturb, sometimes changed sections on their own.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey also saves where its dividers are when it quits and repairs them if they end up out of order. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. Random moves are #702, and system items set to "Show When Active" are #844.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#509: “[Bug]: Ice bar floating in middle of screen after full screening an app”
Problem: With an external monitor and the split or full shape, a copy of the shape appeared in the middle of the screen when an app went fullscreen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#484: “[Bug]: <When in full screen, menu bar appears on top monitor>”
Problem: With the full or split shape, an outline of the menu bar appeared on the external monitor while an app was fullscreen on the MacBook.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#772: “[Bug]: Searchbar-like Artefact Upon Full-Screen”
Problem: On macOS Tahoe, making a window fullscreen on the built-in display left a bar-shaped artefact over all windows on the external display.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445 and #636. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#466: “[Bug]: menu background is placed wrong when using a second screem”
Problem: With a second display, the menu bar shape or tint was drawn somewhere on the desktop, such as at the bottom of the screen.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#464: “[Bug]: Clicking on Other Networks in Wifi settings exits Ice Bar Menu”
Problem: After opening Wi-Fi from the hidden items and clicking Other Networks, the menu closed and the items were hidden again.
Fix: A click inside a shown item's menu or panel no longer counts as a click outside the menu bar, so smart rehide doesn't close it while it is in use. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same fix as #621. Not tested with the Wi-Fi menu, and not reproduced with the Ice Bar.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#458: “[Bug]: <ice cannot arrange menubar items in automatically hidden menu bars>”
Problem: Menu Bar Layout showed an error instead of the items when the menu bar was set to hide automatically.
Fix: Icey no longer blocks Menu Bar Layout, the Ice Bar or the appearance editor when the menu bar hides automatically. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Upstream closed it as #201. Not yet tested with a menu bar that hides automatically.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#457: “[Feature Request]: <Newly installed apps should have their icon put into the "Always visible" group, not into "always hidden">”
Problem: Newly installed apps put their item in the always-hidden section, where it was hard to find.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#442: “[Bug]: Multiscreen setup when full screen app on 1 screen, the ice cutout display on other screen”
Problem: With two displays, entering a full screen app on one showed a cutout of the split shape on the other.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#428: “[Feature Request]: Do not Put New Apps to the Always-Hidden Section by Default”
Problem: Every newly launched app's item appeared in the always-hidden section.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#427: “[Bug]: rendering issue”
Problem: Bars of the menu bar appearance were drawn in the wrong place on an external display, covering part of a window.
Fix: An appearance overlay that lands on another display now hides itself, and each display uses its own fullscreen state. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #445. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#419: “[Bug]: I run the app CleanShotX and at least once a day Ice moves the icon from hidden to visible”
Problem: CleanShot X's item moved from the hidden to the visible section at some point each day, or after the app was reopened.
Fix: Icey now checks that an item opened from the hidden items is back in its section after hiding it again, and keeps retrying if the item is briefly missing. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Same as #513 when the item was opened from the Ice Bar. Upstream closed it as #344.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#400: “[Feature Request]: Add a way to control where new menu bar items show up”
Problem: A request for a marker, like Bartender's, that sets where new items appear.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#394: “Ice posts below drop down menu and stays, until clicked in an open area of the menu bar, BRAVE Browser+ other apps”
Problem: While using Brave, Mail or Preview, the hidden items showed up below an open app menu and stayed until the menu bar was clicked.
Fix: Show on click and show on hover now do nothing while an app's menu is open, so moving between its menus no longer shows the hidden items. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #567. The first click on a menu title still depends on measuring the app menus.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#391: “Ice posts below drop down menu and stays, until clicked in an open area of the menu bar, Apple Mail + other apps”
Problem: In Mail, the hidden items showed up directly below an open app menu.
Fix: Show on click and show on hover now do nothing while an app's menu is open, so moving between its menus no longer shows the hidden items. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #567. The first click on a menu title still depends on measuring the app menus.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#388: “[Feature Request]: Option to allow new icons to be placed in visible/hidden section by default”
Problem: A request for a setting that puts new items in the visible or hidden section instead of the always-hidden one.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#360: “[Bug]: <bug title>Menubar NOT the same on all 4 screens”
Problem: With four displays, one showed extra empty space at the left of the split menu bar.
Fix: Each display now uses its own application menu and fullscreen state for the split shape. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #359. Not yet confirmed on several displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#357: “[Feature Request]: Preference for which section to place new menu bar items into”
Problem: A request for a setting that picks the section for new menu bar items.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#274: “[Bug]: Ice Bar doesn't open on MacOS 15”
Problem: Clicking the Ice icon didn't open the Ice Bar, and Menu Bar Layout showed no items.
Fix: A space change while the Ice Bar opens keeps it closed, stuck moves and clicks time out, and the Ice Bar now opens within a second even when updating its images stalls, instead of never opening again. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.4.
Same as #888. Not reproduced.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#271: “[Bug]: 'Always-hidden section can be toggled' setting isn't honored”
Problem: Option-clicking an empty part of the menu bar didn't show the always-hidden items.
Fix: Option-click now looks only at Shift, Control, Option and Command, so Caps Lock or the Fn key no longer turn it into a plain click. The always-hidden section can always be shown, so the old setting for that is gone. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #644. The reporter's problem went away after a restart, so the cause is not confirmed.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#262: “[Feature Request]: full working when menu bars are hidden in OS.”
Problem: Ice said it couldn't work with a menu bar that hides automatically.
Fix: Icey no longer blocks Menu Bar Layout, the Ice Bar or the appearance editor when the menu bar hides automatically, and show on hover, click and scroll work on the revealed menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.6.
Upstream closed it as #201. Not yet tested with a menu bar that hides automatically.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#202: “[Bug]: Ollama icon doesn't show”
Problem: Ollama's item didn't appear while Ice was running, and came back when Ice quit.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. macOS puts a new item at the far left, which was the always-hidden section, and drops items that don't fit beside the notch (#589).
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#197: “[Feature Request]: Option to automatically add new menu bar items to "always hidden", "hidden", or "visible" section ”
Problem: The reporter asked for new items to go to a chosen section automatically.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#152: “[Bug]: Broken shaped bar on a Macbook with external monitor combination”
Problem: On a MacBook with an external display, the split shape was drawn wrongly.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay sized to its menu bar, and uses its own application menu and fullscreen state for the split shape. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #97 and #359. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#147: “[Feature Request]: Default behavior of new items”
Problem: New items always went to the always-hidden section, with no setting to change it.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#130: “[Bug]: Doesn't hide menubar in Full Screen mode, like in World of Warcraft.”
Problem: With rounded menu bar shapes, the shape stayed over fullscreen games such as World of Warcraft and over Keynote presentations.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140. Apps with their own fullscreen mode are covered when they hide the menu bar. Not tested with World of Warcraft.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#102: “[Bug]: Visual glitch in split menubar on external display”
Problem: With the split shape, the appearance glitched on the external display when a window came close to the menu bar.
Fix: Each display now gets its own appearance overlay sized to its menu bar, and uses its own application menu and fullscreen state for the split shape. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #97 and #359. Not yet confirmed on two displays.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#63: “[Bug]: fullscreen in VLC does not cover menubar properly”
Problem: VLC's fullscreen video left the menu bar appearance visible until the pointer moved over it.
Fix: Icey no longer draws appearance overlays on fullscreen spaces, and hides them while the frontmost app hides the menu bar. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.1.
Same as #140. VLC's own fullscreen is covered when it hides the menu bar, which is not tested. Turning on VLC's native fullscreen mode avoids it.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#57: “[Bug]: Newly started applications are not discovered”
Problem: A newly started app's item didn't appear until Ice quit.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Partly fixedjordanbaird/Ice#17: “New apps come in Always Hidden section”
Problem: With the always-hidden section on, new items appeared in it.
Fix: Settings > General > New items appear in: choose Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden. Icey moves items from an app it hasn't seen before to that section once, and leaves them alone after that. Addressed in Icey 0.11.13-dev.2-icey.3.
Same as #6. An app that forgets its item's position comes back at the far left each launch, and Icey only moves it the first time.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#658: “[Bug]: <Getting focused out while playing league>”
Problem: A fullscreen game lost keyboard focus while Ice was running.
Status: Not fixed yet.
One candidate, not confirmed: showing hidden items with "Hide application menus" on makes Icey the active app.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#649: “[Bug]: split menu bar weird behavior when showing the desktop”
Problem: Clicking the wallpaper to show the desktop slid the split shape away with the windows.
Status: Not fixed yet.
On macOS 26.5 the overlay stays in place in Show Desktop. Same trade-off as #514.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#514: “[Bug]: Menu bar shadow issue with single application window”
Problem: The menu bar shadow moved during the App Exposé animation.
Status: Not fixed yet.
Keeping the overlay in place also draws it on top of Mission Control and App Exposé (measured on macOS 26.5), so that isn't a fix.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#486: “Zoomed-in part of the screen sometimes jumps around when macOS Display Zoom is active (while running Ice)”
Problem: With Zoom on, the zoomed area jumped when Icey moved items in the background.
Status: Not fixed yet.
Moves post mouse events at the item's position, so the pointer jumps and Zoom follows it. A fix means pausing background moves while Zoom is on.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#241: “[Bug]: Gap in menu bar items on inactive display when showing hidden section”
Problem: With section dividers turned off, a gap showed where the divider is on the other display.
Status: Not fixed yet.
Icey shrinks only the divider's own window. The copy macOS draws on other displays probably keeps its old width.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#94: “[Bug]: Icons not hidden in ultra wide screen”
Problem: On a very wide display, hidden icons stayed visible because Icey only pushed them part of the way off screen.
Status: Not fixed yet.
macOS stops a divider at about 5,000 points. Hiding more needs a second spacer item.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#534: “[Bug]: Menu renders incorrectly on secondary monitor in dual-screen setup”
Problem: With section dividers turned off, showing hidden items left an empty gap where each divider is on the unfocused display.
Status: Not fixed yet.
Same as #241.
Openjordanbaird/Ice#523: “[Bug]: Hidden Items shown by menu bar on 57in monitor”
Problem: On a Samsung G9 57 inch monitor, the first hidden items showed next to the visible items.
Status: Not fixed yet.
Same as #94 and #573. macOS stops a divider at about 5,000 points, which is less than this display's width.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#836: “[Bug]: Ice didn't work on external monitor menu-bar on auto-hide”
Problem: Ice did nothing on an external display's auto-hiding menu bar.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The reporter says it only happens after the Mac has been in use for a while. Please retest.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#826: “[Bug]: Not opening menu item”
Problem: Clicking the battery item from the hidden section did nothing on macOS 26.1.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The Caps Lock fix and the off-display click guard may help. No battery-specific cause found.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#817: “[Bug]: User (Login) Icon is not customasibale”
Problem: The user (fast user switching) item didn't appear in Icey on macOS 26.1.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Nothing in the code filters this item out. Needs Icey's log.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#755: “[Bug]: Dropped menubar clicks”
Problem: Some clicks on menu bar items did nothing while Ice was running.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The reporter says other menu bar managers have it too. Icey's monitors only listen and don't block events.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#746: “[Bug]: Event operation timed out”
Problem: Every move failed with "Event operation timed out" on a macOS 26.1 beta.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Icey's move code retries up to 8 times with growing timeouts. Please retest.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#733: “[Bug]: Strange rendering issue”
Problem: Showing hidden items on hover sometimes left a partly drawn, pixelated menu bar.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
No code cause found.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#718: “[Bug]: Cannot hide its icon when using game mode”
Problem: The Game Mode item couldn't be hidden, and clicking Icey's icon didn't show hidden items while a game ran.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The Game Mode item is a system item.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#707: “[Bug]: When using Cloudflare WARP with Ice, the WARP GUI is malfunctioning until iCE is restarted.”
Problem: After a reboot, Cloudflare WARP's window didn't work from Ice until Ice was restarted.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
No cause found. Icey reloads items when apps launch or their item windows change.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#697: “[Bug]: Make Lungo/Dato work with Ice”
Problem: Lungo and Dato didn't open while Ice was running.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The report has no details.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#659: “[Bug]: <MacOS Tahoe> the bar appearance shows a slight shadow on top on the screen”
Problem: A faint shadow appeared at the top of the screen with the appearance settings on.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
No cause found beyond the earlier fix to the darkening behind the menu bar.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#656: “[Bug]: <macOS Tahoe> Cannot move live activities across sections”
Problem: Live Activity items couldn't be moved between sections on macOS 26.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Same as #704. The alert now explains that the item didn't move. Needs the item's details from Icey's log to tell whether macOS blocks moving it.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#640: “[Bug]: Strange Mouse Behavior After Clicking Hidden Icon”
Problem: After clicking a hidden item on a macOS 26 beta, the pointer stayed an arrow everywhere until restart.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Quitting Ice didn't fix it and Bartender showed the same thing, which points to a macOS beta bug.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#625: “[Bug]: Oversize hidden bar”
Problem: The Ice Bar was much wider than its few items.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The blank stretch suggests another app's expanded spacer item (for example Hidden Bar) in the hidden section.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#623: “[Bug]:Icons in MenuBar Layout page Disappear After Using ICE Bar in Full-Screen Mode”
Problem: Icons in Menu Bar Layout went blank after using the Ice Bar in a fullscreen app.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Failed captures don't remove cached images, so the cause is elsewhere.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#606: “[Bug]: Ice bar does't leaves artefact behind when auto-hiding in full screen”
Problem: A leftover image stayed on screen after the Ice Bar closed in a fullscreen app.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The Ice Bar already closes when the menu bar slides away.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#512: “[Bug]: Lack of sync among windows”
Problem: Icey froze and its show/hide state got out of sync after toggling it on several desktops.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The out-of-sync state looks like a result of the freeze. Icey's hang fixes may help. Please retest.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#485: “[Bug]: Cannot show any menu bar items in hidden section”
Problem: The hidden section sometimes showed no item images.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Icey already throws away blank captures and shows "Unable to display menu bar items" instead.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#480: “[Bug]: Interaction with Alcove”
Problem: Alcove's notch stopped reacting to hover while Ice was running.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Icey's overlay panels ignore mouse events and its hover monitor only listens, so no cause was found in the code.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#472: “[Bug]: Menu bar item spacing not applying correctly”
Problem: Changing item spacing had no effect.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Icey writes the same settings as the reporter's working commands and relaunches apps. Please retest.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#462: “Keyboard Maestro will not move from hidden to visible”
Problem: Moving Keyboard Maestro's item to the visible section failed with an error on 0.11.12.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The move code has been rewritten since 0.11.12. Please retest.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#272: “[Bug]: Extra spaces in iPad sidecar.”
Problem: Gaps appeared between menu bar items on an iPad Sidecar display.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
No code cause found. The spacing looks like macOS on Sidecar.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#194: “[Bug]: Offscreen items are dimmed in interface after being moved”
Problem: Items looked dimmed in the layout pane after moving them.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Likely macOS leaves an off-screen dragged item dimmed until the next drag.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#591: “[Bug]: macOS 26: Hiding an icon handicaps that app's features”
Problem: On a macOS 26 beta, apps whose items were hidden stopped responding to their global shortcuts until the hidden items were shown again.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Icey only moves hidden items off screen. The Dock icon that shows when items are shown is #906 ("Hide application menus").
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#559: “[Bug]: <bug title> ShapeKind is not working”
Problem: The report said the shape setting did not work but gave no details.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The report has no description.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#491: “"Search menu bar items" (command palette) lists "always-hidden" items, but nothing happens when you activate them (by pressing Enter)”
Problem: Pressing Enter on an always-hidden item in the search panel did nothing.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Search shows always-hidden items the same way as hidden ones, and that path was reworked in #513 and #729.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#473: “[Bug]: Possible Menubar icon disappears when NORD VPN started?”
Problem: SugarSync's item disappeared and its sign-in was lost when NordVPN connected.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
SugarSync most likely quit when the VPN connected. Icey doesn't quit apps or remove their items.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#454: “[Bug]: <crash on macos15> ”
Problem: Ice crashed right after launch on an early macOS 15 beta.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
The report came from a beta build of macOS 15.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#430: “[Bug]: Conflicts with boring.notch”
Problem: Ice quit after minutes or hours while boring.notch was running.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
No crash report was attached, and boring.notch's developer also found no conflict.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#389: “[Bug]: "Event operation timed out" error every time I try to move something in menu bar layout editor”
Problem: Every move in Menu Bar Layout failed with "Event operation timed out" on macOS 15.0.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Same as #746. Icey retries each move with longer timeouts, and the pane now shows where a failed item really is (#861).
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#353: “[Bug]: Not working with macOS Sequoia”
Problem: Ice 0.11.1 didn't start on the first release of macOS 15.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Upstream added a workaround in a later release. Icey runs on macOS 14 and later, including macOS 15.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#154: “[Bug]: Notifications constantly being redrawn”
Problem: OmniFocus alerts kept being redrawn while Ice 0.9.0 was running, and stopped when it quit.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
A commenter suggested turning on System Settings > Notifications > Allow notifications when mirroring or sharing the display.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#92: “[Bug]: <The Menu Bar got a huge blank without any icon in it>”
Problem: A large empty space with no items appeared in the menu bar and stayed after a reboot or reinstall.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Reported on Ice 0.8.0 and closed as stale upstream.
Closedjordanbaird/Ice#43: “Menu bar styling crashes app”
Problem: After changing the menu bar color and styling, Ice crashed when opening its settings.
Status: Closed: no cause found in Icey's code, and not reproduced. Open an issue in Icey if it still happens, and it will be reopened.
Reported on Ice 0.8.0 with no usable crash report.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#930: “Removed icon from tray and can't get it back”
Problem: Ice's own icon was removed from the menu bar.
What to do: Turn the icon back on in System Settings > Menu Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#934: “Nothing happens when I try to run Ice”
Problem: Ice seemed not to start.
What to do: Ice is running but its icon has no room in the menu bar, for example next to the notch. It shows up on a wider display. Hide or remove other items, or reduce item spacing.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#906: “App opens in dock when expanding the bar”
Problem: Showing hidden items made the app appear in the Dock for a moment.
What to do: This is how "Hide application menus" works: it makes the app active for a moment. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#974: “Orphaned application menu-bar windows stuck at CGWindow layer 101, invisible to accessibility”
Problem: Invisible menu bar windows stayed on screen.
What to do: Not caused by Ice: the reporter saw it with the setting off and after removing Ice.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#909: “OneDrive icons”
Problem: OneDrive's icons ended up in the always-hidden section.
What to do: Some apps don't remember their item positions, so macOS places them in the always-hidden section. See the frequent issues page.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#915: “Unsplash client crashes shortly after being hidden by ICE”
Problem: The Unsplash app crashed shortly after its item was hidden.
What to do: The other app crashes when its item is off screen. See the frequent issues page.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#949: “How to uninstall?”
Problem: How to quit and uninstall the app.
What to do: See the frequent issues page.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#1015: “Is the project still alive?”
Problem: Users asked whether Ice is still maintained.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#993: “This project is no longer maintained by the original author”
Problem: Users asked whether Ice is still maintained.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#939: “IS THIS PROJECT ABANDONED?”
Problem: Users asked whether Ice is still maintained.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#1011: “Some Golden Gate Clarity”
Problem: Users asked whether Ice is still maintained.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it, with early macOS 27 support.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#966: “Unofficial macOS 26-compatible build of Ice”
Problem: An announcement for another unofficial build.
What to do: Not a bug.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#935: “Website SSL cert expired”
Problem: Upstream's website showed a certificate error.
What to do: This is about upstream's website, not the app.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#920: “I have searched existing issues for similar reports”
Problem: The report is empty: its title is a line from the issue template, with no description.
What to do: Nothing to fix. Please open a new report with the steps, the Icey version and the macOS version.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#887: “[Bug]: some application don't respect visibility section (like HubStuff)”
Problem: Hubstaff's item didn't respect the section it was put in, and the same happened with Hidden Bar.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#886: “[Feature Request]: Hide screen recording indicator”
Problem: The purple screen recording indicator can't be hidden.
What to do: macOS draws this privacy indicator itself, and no app can hide it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#881: “[Feature Request]: Please, change the application name !”
Problem: Ice shares its name with other apps.
What to do: Icey has its own name.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#878: “[Bug]: Menu bar items are not appearing”
Problem: Some items stayed missing, even after Ice was uninstalled.
What to do: The menu bar is out of room, for example next to the notch. Quit some menu bar apps or reduce item spacing.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#862: “[Feature Request]: submit the app to the homebrew”
Problem: Asks for a Homebrew package.
What to do: Ice's Homebrew cask is maintained upstream.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#853: “[Bug]: Cursor IDE icon position is not saved well”
Problem: The Cursor editor's item didn't stay where it was placed.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#852: “[Bug]: Ice bar cannot hide recording indicator in 15.7.3”
Problem: The screen recording indicator stays visible.
What to do: macOS draws this privacy indicator itself, and no app can hide it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#844: “[Bug]: System icons set to "Show When Active" don't remember their correct placement in the menubar”
Problem: System items such as Focus or Screen Mirroring came back at the far left.
What to do: macOS recreates these items when they become active. Choosing where new items go is #938.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#823: “[Feature Request]: Are we every going to get a stable version for macOS Tahoe, or is the app not in development anymore?”
Problem: Ice has had no stable release for macOS 26.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it with releases for macOS 26 and 27.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#806: “[Bug]: Razer Synapse icon always hidden on startup”
Problem: Razer Synapse's item, placed in the visible section, was at the end of the hidden section after every startup.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#798: “[Bug]: Audio Wrangler Mute Icon Issue”
Problem: Audio Wrangler's item moved to the hidden section each time it changed.
What to do: The app creates a new item each time, and macOS places new items at the far left. Choosing where new items go is #938.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#774: “[Bug]: Website https://icemenubar.app/ appears to be down”
Problem: icemenubar.app didn't load.
What to do: That is upstream's website.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#771: “[Bug]: Shortcut Gets Hidden After Restart”
Problem: A shortcut shown in the menu bar went back to the hidden section after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#768: “[Bug]: ICE dock icon apeears when clicking on chevron to show menu.”
Problem: Ice's icon appeared in the Dock when showing hidden items.
What to do: This comes from "Hide application menus": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#760: “[Feature Request]: Make stable version for Tahoe?”
Problem: Ice has no stable release for macOS 26.
What to do: Icey is a maintained continuation with releases for macOS 26 and 27.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#752: “[Bug]: Latest beta update from Sept 16th - when is a new one coming with fixed bugs”
Problem: Ice's last beta has bugs on macOS 26.
What to do: Ice is no longer maintained. Icey continues it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#748: “[Bug]: 1Password”
Problem: 1Password's item, moved to the visible section, had moved again after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#745: “[Love]: Thank You For Ice!”
Problem: A thank-you note.
What to do: Nothing to fix.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#725: “[Bug]: App icon opens on hover”
Problem: Ice became the active app and showed in the Dock when hidden items were shown.
What to do: This comes from "Hide application menus": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#723: “[Bug]: Icons don’t stay at its place - they flip after restart (Sequoia & Tahoe)”
Problem: Arranged icons swapped places after every restart, on macOS 15 and 26.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#719: “[Bug]: Volume/brightness HUD not visible when Ice is running on macOS Tahoe”
Problem: On macOS 26, the volume and brightness pop-ups didn't appear while Ice was running.
What to do: macOS 26 shows these pop-ups under their menu bar items, so they can't be seen while the items are hidden. Keep Sound and Display in the visible section.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#715: “[Bug]: If a system menu icon/text winds up in the notch area, it simply disappears!”
Problem: Items that ended up behind the notch were not shown.
What to do: macOS hides items that fall behind the notch. Hide some items so the rest fit.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#701: “[Bug]: Volume UI hidden on change if menu bar icon is hidden”
Problem: With the Sound item hidden, changing the volume showed no pop-up.
What to do: macOS 26 shows the pop-up under the Sound item. Keep Sound in the visible section.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#683: “[Bug]: (Tahoe Beta) Hover affects across screens”
Problem: Showing hidden items on one display showed them on every display.
What to do: macOS mirrors menu bar items on every display, so a section is shown everywhere at once.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#675: “[Bug]: Always Hidden Icons Disappeared.”
Problem: On macOS 26, items in the always-hidden section disappeared from the menu bar.
What to do: Turn the apps back on in System Settings > Menu Bar > Allow in Menu Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#666: “[Bug]: Items that change become hidden”
Problem: SwiftBar's now-playing item moved to the hidden section every so often.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#661: “[Bug]: When visible section application is updated, it will go to hidden section.”
Problem: When an app in the visible section was updated, its item moved to the hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#645: “[Bug]: menubar periodical glitch every 'x' minutes”
Problem: The menu bar flickered periodically.
What to do: Control Center relaunching itself causes this, not Ice.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#643: “[Bug]: Completely lost Stats app when dragging into Menu Bar Layout section”
Problem: After dragging Stats into a section in Menu Bar Layout, its items were gone from the menu bar.
What to do: Turn Stats back on in System Settings > Menu Bar > Allow in Menu Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#634: “[Bug]: Option-Click does not work if Show on Click is disabled”
Problem: Option-clicking an empty part of the menu bar did nothing with "Show on click" turned off.
What to do: By design: clicks on empty menu bar space need "Show on click". Option-click the Icey icon instead.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#619: “[Bug]: Unable to Restore Menu Item After Removing Duplicate Chevron Icon”
Problem: After removing a duplicate chevron, the item couldn't be brought back.
What to do: Turn the item back on in System Settings > Menu Bar (Control Center on older macOS).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#589: “[Bug]: Menu items disappear when there is no room left”
Problem: Items disappeared when the menu bar was full.
What to do: macOS drops items that don't fit. Hide some items, or reduce item spacing.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#584: “[Bug]: macOS 26 application menu change to ice empty menu when clicking on empty space on menu bar to expand collapse items”
Problem: The menu bar showed Ice's empty menus after showing hidden items.
What to do: This comes from "Hide application menus": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#510: “[Bug]: Split bar doesn't reach top of scren”
Problem: The split shape leaves a 1-point gap at the top.
What to do: By design, so the shape's rounded ends stay off the screen edge.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#467: “[Bug]: 1Password menu item weirdness”
Problem: 1Password's item moved from visible to hidden on its own, and moving it back failed with an error.
What to do: 1Password recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout; item moves in Icey now time out and retry.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#440: “[Bug]: The Shazam (music recognition) icon is invisible all the time”
Problem: The Music Recognition item couldn't be hidden or shown by Ice.
What to do: macOS before 15.3.2 doesn't let that item be hidden, so Icey leaves it alone.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#416: “[Bug]: menubar icons disappear when active app menus extend to the right”
Problem: Items vanished when the active app's menus reached them.
What to do: macOS drops items that collide with app menus. Turn on "Hide application menus", which this release fixes for setups without the always-hidden section (#434).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#397: “[Bug]: Dock icon appears when using Always hidden feature.”
Problem: Ice's icon appeared in the Dock when showing items.
What to do: This comes from "Hide application menus": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#344: “[Bug]: Menu bar items move to hidden or always hidden section”
Problem: After a restart, items went to the hidden or always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Reports of every item moving at once on each restart are tracked in #702.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#316: “[Bug]: Items rehidden after selecting "Show the Hidden Section" in Ice icon menu with "Show on hover" setting enabled”
Problem: With show on hover on, items shown from the Ice menu hid again when the pointer left the menu bar.
What to do: By design: show on hover hides items once the pointer leaves the menu bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#246: “[Bug]: Ice doesn't open its settings when double clicking its app icon on macOS 15”
Problem: Opening Ice again didn't show its settings on a macOS 15 beta.
What to do: A macOS 15.1 beta problem. Reopening the app opens Settings.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#244: “[Bug]: App shows up in non-hidden bar even after hidden”
Problem: CleanShot's item showed in the visible section again each time the app was reopened.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#211: “[Bug]: Ice Bar shows incorrect item images when moved to another screen”
Problem: After moving to another screen, the Ice Bar showed the wrong item images.
What to do: macOS doesn't let apps identify items in an inactive menu bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#73: “[Feature Request]: Defer recommended payment until once installed”
Problem: A suggestion about upstream's donation prompt.
What to do: Concerns upstream's donation flow.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#58: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Flashes”
Problem: The menu bar tint briefly flashes on a space switch.
What to do: Expected: the appearance follows the active space and fades in.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#1018: “[Feature Request]: ice-rust, a Rust port of Ice for macOS 26 users”
Problem: An announcement of a separate Rust port of Ice, filed because Ice had stopped getting updates for macOS 26.
What to do: This is not a bug in Ice. Icey is the maintained continuation of Ice, with the full feature set and support for macOS 26 and 27.
Not a feature request.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#700: “[Bug]: It seems that it hasn't been updated for a long time. The latest version is still from 2024, Are there any substitutes”
Problem: A question asking whether there is an alternative, because Ice's last release was from 2024.
What to do: Icey is the maintained continuation of Ice. Download it from the Icey releases page. It keeps your Ice settings.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#616: “[Bug]: Menu bar icons are visible for a moment at login on MacBook Air (M3, Sequoia 15.5)”
Problem: At every login, items set to hidden or always-hidden appeared briefly before disappearing.
What to do: Icey has to be running to hide items, so they show until it starts at login. Icey hides them as soon as it starts.
The sections start in the hidden state when Icey sets up, so there is no extra delay inside Icey.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#593: “[Bug]: 1password menu icon in not honored across relaunches of 1password”
Problem: After 1Password was relaunched, or its menu bar option was turned off and on, its item came back in the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#579: “RAM monitoring software in the bar”
Problem: A question about which app shows RAM usage in the menu bar, as seen in a screenshot.
What to do: Not an Ice issue. The app in the screenshot is Stats (github.com/exelban/stats).
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#571: “[Bug]: Dynamic items, such as Dato's menu bar notifications and Lyrics's menu lyrics, are consistently hidden.”
Problem: Items that apps such as Dato and LyricsX add while running were always hidden, even after being placed in the visible section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#569: “[Bug]: Discord little ball (notification when you're in a call) moves from the bar to hidden.”
Problem: Discord's call indicator moved to the hidden section every time a new call started.
What to do: Discord recreates its item for each call, and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering positions is a feature request (#6, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#562: “[Bug]: The DingTalk icon needs to be reconfigured every time it is restarted”
Problem: After quitting and reopening DingTalk or OpenVPN Connect, its icon went back to the hidden section.
What to do: The app creates a new item each time it starts, and macOS places new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout.
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#558: “[Bug]: After restart, app icon always moves to "always-hidden" section”
Problem: After restarting the Mac, Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager's icon was always in the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item at startup and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout.
Same as #344. If every hidden item moves at once, see #702.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#557: “[Bug]: Position of menubar icons in hidden section are not remembered”
Problem: After quitting and reopening an app whose item was in the hidden section, the item came back outside the hidden section.
What to do: Where a restarted app's item appears is decided by the app and macOS. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout.
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#553: “[Bug]: eul keep being sent to Always Hidden Section”
Problem: The eul item went back to the always-hidden section after every login.
What to do: eul recreates its item at login and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout.
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#537: “[maybe Bug]: AirBattery Icon moves to always hidden”
Problem: A pinned AirBattery device item went back to the always-hidden section after a while or after sleep.
What to do: AirBattery recreates the item and macOS puts new items at the far left. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout.
Same as #344. See also #732.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#532: “[Bug]: MacBook Pro M4 w/ Notch - icons disappearing 'underneath' the notch I guess?”
Problem: With many hidden items shown on a MacBook with a notch, some icons disappeared behind the notch.
What to do: macOS hides items that fall behind the notch. Turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar, and set Use on to Displays with a notch to use it only there.
Same as #715. Switching to the Ice Bar automatically is #570.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#508: “ice bar disappeares when using onlyswitch menubar app”
Problem: Ice's items disappeared while OnlySwitch was running.
What to do: Turn off Hide Menu Bar Icons in OnlySwitch's settings.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#504: “[Bug]: "Ice can't display menu bar items for automatically hidden menu bars" error”
Problem: Menu Bar Layout and Menu Bar Appearance showed this error and could not be used.
What to do: In System Settings > Control Center, set Automatically hide and show the menu bar to In Full Screen Only or Never.
Same as #201.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#496: “[Bug]: Menubar item arrangement not sticking”
Problem: After restarting BetterDisplay, its item went to the hidden section or to the end instead of where it was placed.
What to do: The app recreates its item and macOS places it. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. To choose where new items go, use Settings > General > New items appear in.
Same as #344. The new item part is #767.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#489: “[Bug]: <Automatic adding items when Ice bar is enabled>”
Problem: Clicking a hidden item in the Ice Bar showed it in the menu bar.
What to do: This is expected. An item must be in the menu bar to open its menu, and Icey hides it again shortly after.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#478: “[Bug]: Not all icons are shown”
Problem: With the hidden section shown, only about 15 items appeared and the rest were missing.
What to do: macOS drops items that don't fit beside the notch. Turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items below the menu bar instead.
Same cause as #589.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#476: “[Bug]: Issues with F.lux when it's icon is hidden using Ice”
Problem: With f.lux's item hidden, f.lux turned its filter off for a full screen video but didn't turn it back on afterwards.
What to do: Hidden items are moved off screen, and f.lux seems to need its item on screen for this. Keep f.lux in the visible section, or ask f.lux's developers about it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#461: “[Feature Request]: Dim the menubar to work with hazeover harmoniously”
Problem: HazeOver's dimming didn't cover the area where Ice draws the menu bar appearance.
What to do: Icey draws the menu bar appearance at the menu bar's own window level, which is above HazeOver's dimming. Turn off the tint and shape in Menu Bar Appearance, or ask HazeOver's developer to dim above the menu bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#460: “[Bug]: Badgeify icons are placed in always hidden section”
Problem: Badgeify's items returned to the always-hidden section each time their app was reopened.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#459: “[Bug]: The native Shazam icon can't be placed in Ice in MacOS Sequoia 15.1.1”
Problem: The Music Recognition (Shazam) item couldn't be moved and didn't appear in Menu Bar Layout.
What to do: macOS before 15.3.2 doesn't let that item be hidden, so Icey leaves it alone.
Same as #440.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#450: “[Bug]: OpenVPN connect icon always returns to always hidden section”
Problem: OpenVPN Connect's item returned to the always-hidden section each time the app relaunched, and 1Password and Obsidian did the same.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#449: “Doll: Position of an app is not remembered”
Problem: Items created by Doll moved to the hidden sections whenever their app restarted.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#448: “[Bug]: NextDNS menu item doesn't stick after restart”
Problem: NextDNS's item went back to the hidden section after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#447: “[Bug]: Application update new version does not go back to menubar set”
Problem: After updating Shottr, its item didn't go back to the section it was in.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#443: “Ice is not displaying Stats module”
Problem: A Stats module placed at the far left of the visible section disappeared.
What to do: macOS drops items that don't fit beside the notch. Hide some items, reduce item spacing, or use the Ice Bar.
Same cause as #589.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#441: “[Bug]: 1password app always be hidden automaticlly”
Problem: 1Password's item went back to the hidden section after a few days or restarts.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#437: “[Bug]: <bug title>Temporary Menubar items do not reappear in menu”
Problem: Doll's badge item was moved to the hidden section after it disappeared and came back.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#431: “[Bug]: Mega.nz constantly going to "Always Hidden Section"”
Problem: MEGA's item ended up in the always-hidden section every time the app started.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#429: “[Bug]: Always-hidden are... always hidden”
Problem: The always-hidden items didn't appear when holding Option and choosing Show Always-Hidden Section from the menu.
What to do: Hold Option only when clicking the Icey icon. From the Icey menu, choose Show Always-Hidden Section without Option. If the items don't fit next to the notch, use the Ice Bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#423: “[Bug]: There is no "Always-Hidden" section”
Problem: Menu Bar Layout showed only the visible and hidden sections.
What to do: Turn on Settings > Advanced > Enable the always-hidden section.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#422: “[Bug]: <Ice App auto Open When Pressing the Ice Icon>”
Problem: After clicking the Ice icon a few times, Ice appeared in the Dock.
What to do: This comes from "Hide app menus when showing menu bar items": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off in Settings > Advanced, or use the Ice Bar.
Same as #906.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#418: “[Bug]: A chevron is shown in list of hidden apps”
Problem: A chevron appeared where the hidden items start.
What to do: The chevron marks where the hidden section starts. Set Settings > Advanced > Section divider style to None to remove it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#417: “[Bug]: Ice repeatedly moves MegaSync to Always-Hidden Section”
Problem: MEGAsync's item went back to the always-hidden section after some time.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#398: “[Bug]: Dropbox icon won't stay in menu bar”
Problem: Dropbox's item was missing from the menu bar after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#395: “[Feature Request]: Support showing ephemeral menu bar items”
Problem: A menu bar item that Dato creates for the next calendar event appeared in the always-hidden section, and didn't keep its place after being moved.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#387: “[Bug]: Some icons are not correctly restored in the correct section of the menu bar layout”
Problem: 1Password's item went to the always-hidden section each time the app restarted.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#386: “[Bug]:ApplePay not working.”
Problem: Apple Pay didn't complete on Ice's donation page.
What to do: Icey takes no payments. The old Ice donation page was run by Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe, and the reporter's payment went through after a restart.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#385: “[Bug]: <Showing Always Hidden Section Also Shows Hidden Section>”
Problem: Without the Ice Bar, showing the always-hidden section showed the hidden items too.
What to do: Expected: the always-hidden section sits left of the hidden one, so it can't be shown in the menu bar without the hidden section. The Ice Bar shows either section alone.
A section that hides to show what's on its left is #310.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#376: “[Feature Request]: Only a (left) click on the dot will open the hidden section”
Problem: Clicking NotchNook or any empty part of the menu bar showed the hidden section.
What to do: Turn off Settings > General > Show on click. The Icey icon still shows the hidden items when clicked.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#374: “[Bug]: Can't remember position of 1Password menubar item”
Problem: 1Password's item went to the always-hidden section after every login or restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#358: “[Feature Request]: <feature title> Thank you for your contribution！History will remember you！”
Problem: A message thanking the developer.
What to do: Nothing to fix.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#356: “[Bug]: Icon does not show up in menu bar”
Problem: OpenVPN Connect's item didn't appear in the menu bar while Ice was running.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#354: “[Bug]: <Tuneful App automatically heads to "Always Hidden" on Music pause.>”
Problem: Tuneful's item went to the always-hidden section every time playback paused.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#348: “[Bug]: Menubar items get dimmed on screens where the mouse pointer isn't”
Problem: With several displays, the menu bar items on inactive displays were dimmed, and some weren't.
What to do: macOS dims the menu bar of an inactive display, even without Ice. Items that stay bright draw their own colors.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#325: “[Bug]: Ice hates my Figma menu bar icon”
Problem: Figma's item moved to the always-hidden section after Figma restarted, and later was missing from every section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. The missing item may be #283.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#320: “[Bug]: "Always Visible" application moves to "Always Hidden" unexpectedly.”
Problem: NepTunes's item moved from the visible to the always-hidden section when playback ended.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#314: “[Bug]: Menu item is always in 'Always Hidden' after restart”
Problem: 1Password's item was in the always-hidden section after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#307: “[Bug]: 1Password keeps getting moved to always hidden after restarting it”
Problem: 1Password's item went to the always-hidden section each time 1Password was quit and opened again.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#301: “[Bug]: 1Password menubar item shows hidden after reboot”
Problem: 1Password's item was back in the always-hidden section after every reboot.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#297: “[Bug]: Timery Menu Bar Item Keeps Resetting”
Problem: Timery's item moved from the visible to the always-hidden section after every reboot.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#296: “[Bug?]: On Sequoia the app triggers a security popup every day, at least once.”
Problem: macOS 15 asked about once a day whether Ice could keep recording the screen.
What to do: macOS 15 asks again from time to time for apps that record the screen, and Icey can't turn that off. Screen Recording is optional in Icey, needed only for the menu bar appearance and images of items, so you can leave it off.
Same as #170. Icey captures item images with the older capture API because ScreenCaptureKit can't capture hidden items.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#295: “[Feature Request]: App Recommendations for Menu Bar Enjoyers (©)”
Problem: A thread to share favorite menu bar apps.
What to do: Nothing to fix. The issue tracker is for bugs and feature requests.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#292: “[Bug]: Ice ignores Doll menu item position preferences”
Problem: Each new badge item from Doll was treated as new and moved to the hidden section again.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#281: “[Bug]: 1password appears in always-hidden section”
Problem: After updating Ice or macOS, the 1Password item moved from the visible section to the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#280: “[Bug]: macos 15 alert”
Problem: On macOS 15, clicking the Ice icon after a while showed a system alert asking to allow Ice to keep recording the screen.
What to do: macOS 15 asks again from time to time for apps that record the screen, and Icey can't turn that off. Screen Recording is optional in Icey, needed only for the menu bar appearance and images of items, so you can leave it off.
Same as #170.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#279: “[Bug]: Game Mode icon resets its location”
Problem: Each time Game Mode started, its item appeared in the visible section instead of the hidden section it had been moved to.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. macOS creates the Game Mode item again each time Game Mode starts.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#278: “[Bug]: 1Password Icon automatically moved to Always-Hidden after macOS reboot”
Problem: After every restart of the Mac, the 1Password item was in the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#268: “[Bug]: Disappearing icons”
Problem: Items from OrbStack, iTerm2 and Outlook went missing from their sections, and were sometimes found in the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. Icey can't remove items, so an item that is in no section is one its app isn't showing.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#266: “1Password menu bar item always moves against the will to the Always-Hidden section after restarting Mac”
Problem: After restarting the Mac, the 1Password item was back in the always-hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#263: “[Bug]: Surfshark icon always in hidden area”
Problem: After quitting and reopening Surfshark, its item was back in the hidden section and had to be moved again.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#249: “[Bug]: already has been set to a hidden icon. When the program exits and starts again, the icon will return to "visible"”
Problem: uTools' item, set to hidden, was in the visible section each time the app started again.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #244.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#231: “Items Hidden on Restart”
Problem: After a restart, 1Password and Dropbox moved to the far left of the hidden section.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. With the always-hidden section turned off, the leftmost section is the hidden one.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#221: “[Bug]: Even after the 0.10 update, icons don't appear in the "always shown" section after reboots.”
Problem: With the always-hidden section turned off, 1Password moved to the hidden section after every reboot.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. With the always-hidden section turned off, the leftmost section is the hidden one.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#219: “[Bug]: Click menu bar show/hide button on the secondary monitor will cause Ice icon appears in task bar”
Problem: Showing the hidden items on the MacBook's display, with an external display attached, put the Ice icon in the Dock until they were hidden again.
What to do: This comes from "Hide app menus when showing menu bar items": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off in Settings > Advanced, or use the Ice Bar.
Same as #906.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#170: “[Bug]: MacOS 15 Privacy Popups”
Problem: On macOS 15, an alert asking to allow Ice to keep recording the screen came back again and again.
What to do: macOS 15 asks again from time to time for apps that record the screen, and Icey can't turn that off. Screen Recording is optional in Icey, needed only for the menu bar appearance and images of items, so you can leave it off.
Icey captures item images with the older capture API because ScreenCaptureKit can't capture hidden items.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#158: “[Bug]: Hidden menu items covered by MacBook Pro notch”
Problem: On a MacBook with a notch, shown hidden items ran into the notch and couldn't be reached.
What to do: macOS drops items that don't fit beside the notch. Turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items below the menu bar instead.
Same as #1 and #589.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#151: “[Bug]: Dropbox icon disappeared”
Problem: Dropbox's item disappeared from the menu bar.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. Show the always-hidden section to find it.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#150: “[Bug]: Apps move from visible to always hide after restart”
Problem: Zoom and 1Password moved from the visible to the always-hidden section after every restart.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#136: “[Bug]: Custom menu bar shape is redrawn when switching between Spaces”
Problem: After switching spaces, the menu bar showed its normal look for a moment before the shape appeared.
What to do: Expected: the appearance follows the active space and fades in.
Same as #58.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#133: “[Bug]: Icons go missing”
Problem: Docker's item, moved to the visible section, was gone after a few restarts.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344. Docker recreates its item, so look in the always-hidden section.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#131: “TESTING THE USE OF ISSUE TO MAKE A REQUEST”
Problem: This was a test of the issue form.
What to do: Nothing to fix.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#128: “[Bug]: Dock Ice App Icon Always Shows When Expanding Menu Bar”
Problem: Ice's Dock icon appeared while the hidden items were shown and went away when they were hidden.
What to do: This comes from "Hide app menus when showing menu bar items": Icey must become the active app for a moment, which shows its Dock icon. Turn that setting off in Settings > Advanced, or use the Ice Bar.
Same as #906.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#123: “[Bug]: Stage Manager interacts poorly with Ice”
Problem: With Stage Manager on, clicking the Ice icon made the focused app lose focus.
What to do: With Settings > Advanced > Hide app menus when showing menu bar items on, Icey becomes the active app for a moment to hide the menus, so the focused app loses focus and Stage Manager reacts. Turn that setting off, or use the Ice Bar, which doesn't take focus.
Same cause as #906. Not tested with Stage Manager.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#119: “[Bug]: Dato.app "upcoming event" status item disappears”
Problem: Dato's upcoming event item disappeared while Ice was running.
What to do: The app recreates its item, and macOS puts new items at the far left, in the leftmost section. Move it back in Menu Bar Layout. Remembering each item's place is a feature request (#548, #26).
Same as #344 and #395.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#117: “"always hidden objects" for ever lost”
Problem: The always-hidden items couldn't be shown any more, even after removing Ice.
What to do: Bartender was still running and hiding the items. Quit and remove other menu bar managers before using Icey.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#112: “[Bug]: Moving icons cause the section dividers to appear”
Problem: With the dividers hidden, Command-dragging an item showed them, which shifted the items.
What to do: Turn off Settings > Advanced > Show all sections when ⌘ Command + dragging menu bar items. Menu Bar Layout in Settings arranges items without showing the dividers.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#90: “New app icon ”
Problem: The reporter suggested a new app icon.
What to do: Nothing to fix. Icey has its own app icon, and Settings > General > Icey icon lets you choose the icon in the menu bar.
Not a bugjordanbaird/Ice#50: “[Bug]: Menu Bar Appearance”
Problem: Setting a solid black tint only darkened the menu bar slightly.
What to do: The tint is a translucent layer over the menu bar, so it can darken or color it but not replace its color. A fully colored menu bar is a feature request (#82).
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#938: “Option that lets you choose location of new items”
Problem: A request for a setting that decides where new menu bar items go.
Status: Not started. Needs a way to recognize new items and move them automatically. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#860: “[Feature Request]: Option to re-add the menu bar icon, after manual removal”
Problem: A request for a way to restore the icon after removing it from the menu bar.
Status: Turn the icon back on in System Settings > Menu Bar.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#809: “[Feature Request]: Always place new icons at the end”
Problem: A request for new items to always appear at the end of the menu bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same request as #938.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#783: “[Feature Request]: Separate sets for laptops when connect to external monitor”
Problem: A request for different item sets per display setup.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#778: “[Feature Request]: Add Toggle to expand hidden section to contain always hidden icons”
Problem: A request for a toggle to include always-hidden items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#754: “[Feature Request]: Dark icon”
Problem: A request for a dark app icon.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#731: “[Feature Request]: Allow live activities to show”
Problem: A request for Live Activities to stay visible.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#728: “[Bug]: Chevron separator is always shown”
Problem: A request to hide the divider while items are shown.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#727: “[Feature Request]: Bartender 3 mode”
Problem: A request for a Bartender 3 style layout.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#726: “[Feature Request]: Clicking on center of menu bar reveals the desktop”
Problem: A request for a click action that shows the desktop.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#713: “[Feature Request]: Blacklist instead of whitelist strategy”
Problem: A request for a blacklist instead of a whitelist.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same request as #938.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#705: “[Feature Request]: Allow clear shape kind”
Problem: A request for a transparent shape.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#691: “[Feature Request]: Allow unhide all when the display is larger”
Problem: A request to unhide everything when the display is large.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#651: “[Feature Request]: Allow the tint option to affect the menubar background only and add transparency slider to colour swatch(es)”
Problem: A request for a tint opacity slider.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#641: “[Feature Request]: Support Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P to navigate down and up in the menu bar items list”
Problem: A request for Emacs-style navigation in search.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#638: “Can it support the multilingual version?”
Problem: A request whether a multilingual version can be supported.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#630: “[Feature Request]: Ice Bar under when I'm on one screen.”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar on a single display.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#617: “[Feature Request]: Auto-Sort behavior for "Unrecognized" Apps”
Problem: A request to choose where unknown items go.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same request as #938.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#610: “[Feature Request]: Small-rounded variant for the Menu Bar Shape”
Problem: A request for a smaller corner radius.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#604: “[Feature Request]: Disable functionality behind notch”
Problem: A request to turn off Ice in the notch area.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#601: “[Feature Request]: Documentation for hidden and always hidden behavior”
Problem: A request for documentation.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#600: “[Feature Request]: Open hidden items from the Ice Icon”
Problem: A request for a menu of hidden items on the Ice icon.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#570: “[Feature Request]: When bar items pass through the notch”
Problem: A request to switch to the Ice Bar when items would be hidden by the notch.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#566: “[Feature Request]: Hide/unhide using custom application whitelist”
Problem: A request for a per-app whitelist.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#560: “[Feature Request]: Automatically sort menu bar items in hidden section by name”
Problem: A request to sort the hidden section alphabetically.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#554: “[Feature Request]: Show menu bar item name on hover”
Problem: A request for tooltips with item names.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#552: “[Feature Request]: Option for Double click on ice icon in menu bar to show always hidden menu icons instead of settings”
Problem: A request for a double-click action.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#551: “[Feature Request]: Grid option when using Ice bar”
Problem: A request for a grid option.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#538: “[Feature Request]: Round corners of clicked menu bar items”
Problem: A request for rounded highlights.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#533: “[Feature Request]: Make menu bar appear floating versus docked to top of screen”
Problem: A request for a floating menu bar look.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#527: “[Feature Request]: Allow pinning bar location with hidden ice icon”
Problem: A request to place the Ice Bar without the icon.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#519: “[Feature Request]: Ability to show all icons in click menu”
Problem: A request to show items hidden by the notch.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#518: “[Feature Request]: Configuration option to Always open Ice as minimized”
Problem: A request for an option to start minimized.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#516: “[Feature Request]: Expose API for searching menu bar items for Launchbar/Alfred/Spotlight/etc”
Problem: A request for LaunchBar, Alfred or Spotlight integration.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#515: “[Feature Request]: Scrolling through menu bar items”
Problem: A request for a scrolling Ice Bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#501: “[Feature Request]: Raycast Integration”
Problem: A request for a Raycast extension.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#497: “[Feature Request]: Open 'Menu Bar Layout' from Right-Click”
Problem: A request for a context menu entry.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#495: “[Feature Request]: Organize hidden icons into multiple rows”
Problem: A request for multi-row hidden items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#494: “[Feature Request]: Make option for showing hidden items on mouse down, not up”
Problem: A request to react on mouse down rather than mouse up.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#487: “[Feature Request]: Always Hidden Use Ice Bar”
Problem: A request for the Ice Bar to show always-hidden items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#482: “[Feature Request]: Better appearance for rounded menu bar”
Problem: A request for rounded screen corners.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#481: “[Feature Request]: Option to enable showing hidden section when hovering over un-hidden side”
Problem: A request for a wider hover area.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#406: “[Feature Request]: Allow clicks inside the notch”
Problem: A request to make the notch area clickable.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#382: “[Feature Request]: Add AppleScript or CLI support”
Problem: A request for automation support.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#380: “[Feature Request]: Can we send shadow to back?”
Problem: A request for a shadow below windows.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#378: “[Feature Request]: Show all menu bar items as default”
Problem: A request to start with every item shown.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#372: “[Feature Request]: Ability to see both hidden sections at the same time when using the Ice Bar”
Problem: A request to show hidden and always-hidden items together.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#368: “[Feature Request]: Menu Bar Appearance for Hidden Sections”
Problem: A request for a separate look per section.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#342: “[Feature Request]: Display menu bar items as a vertical list”
Problem: A request for a list view.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#340: “[Feature Request]: Show ice bar next to mouse in any screen location with keyboard shortcut”
Problem: A request for a hotkey that opens the Ice Bar anywhere.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#335: “[Feature Request]: Ice Bar only for Always Hidden”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar for one section.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#321: “[Feature Request]: Animation when showing items”
Problem: A request for an animation.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#310: “[Feature Request]: Allow a section to be hidable to show what's on the left”
Problem: A request for a collapsible section.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#291: “[Feature Request]: Hotkeys for individual menu bar items”
Problem: A request for per-item shortcuts.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#273: “[Feature Request]: Custom refresh rate for menu bar item images”
Problem: A request for a capture interval setting.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#252: “[Feature Request]: RTL support ”
Problem: A request for RTL layout.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#245: “[Feature Request]: Allow setting SF Symbols for when the icon is toggled”
Problem: A request for symbol icons.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#243: “[Feature Request]: Menu Bar Widget Ideas”
Problem: Ideas for widgets.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#242: “[Feature Request]: Ability to have unique menubars for each display”
Problem: A request for per-display layouts.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#240: “[Feature Request]: Showing hidden items replaces visible items”
Problem: A request to swap sections instead of expanding.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#227: “[Feature Request]: Use Ice Bar as overflow spot for otherwise-hidden menu items”
Problem: A request for an overflow Ice Bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#214: “[Feature Request]: Ability to pin Ice Bar”
Problem: A request to keep the Ice Bar open.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#210: “[Feature Request]: Option to update to beta releases”
Problem: A request for a beta update channel.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#209: “[Feature Request]: Arrange items directly inside Ice Bar”
Problem: A request for drag and drop in the Ice Bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#208: “Feature Request: Adding Ice Bar as an additional layout under Menu Bar Items”
Problem: A request to show the Ice Bar in the layout pane.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#188: “[Feature Request]: Option to only hide on built-in display”
Problem: A request for per-display hiding.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#186: “[Feature Request]: Support GIFs as Ice icon”
Problem: A request for animated icons.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#148: “[Feature Request]: Custom trigger API for applications to implement”
Problem: A request for an API to show items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#141: “[Feature Request]: x-callback-url for automation”
Problem: A request for URL scheme support.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#113: “[Feature Request]: Scroll again to toggle always-hidden section”
Problem: A request for a second scroll action.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#91: “[Feature Request]: Spacers”
Problem: A request for spacer items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#83: “[Feature Request]: Organize apps by keyboard shortcuts or in preferences pane”
Problem: A request for keyboard arrangement.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#82: “[Feature Request]: All black menu bar background to hide notch”
Problem: A request for a black menu bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#62: “[Feature Request]: Show menu bar items when trigger condition are met”
Problem: A request for triggers such as battery level.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#46: “[Feature Request]: Menubar groups”
Problem: A request for item groups.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#38: “[Feature Request]: Rounded rectangle menu bar shape with adjustable corner radius”
Problem: A request for a corner radius setting.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#26: “[Feature request] Profiles for menubar layout”
Problem: A request for layout profiles.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#693: “[Feature Request]: App Store”
Problem: A request to distribute the app through the App Store for the extra review.
Status: Not planned. Icey can't run in the App Store sandbox, so it ships as a signed and notarized download from GitHub releases.
The app is built without the App Sandbox (ENABLE_APP_SANDBOX = NO).
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#689: “[Feature Request]: option to add new menu items to the IceBar”
Problem: A request to send new menu bar items to the Ice Bar instead of the menu bar, where they can end up behind the notch.
Status: Icey has this. In Settings > General > New items appear in, choose Hidden or Always-Hidden, and with Use Ice Bar on those items show in the Ice Bar.
Icey moves items only from an app it hasn't seen before. A new build of an app it already knows is not moved.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#575: “[Feature Request]: Dynamically display icons”
Problem: A request to show items such as Wi-Fi, VPN or Amphetamine only when their state changes.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#564: “[Feature Request]: <Optimize Battery Icon appearance>”
Problem: A request to put the battery percentage inside the battery icon, like on iOS.
Status: Not planned. The battery icon belongs to macOS, and Icey can't change how system icons look.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#548: “[Feature Request]: Keep icons which are only enabled while app is open shown!”
Problem: A request to put Figma's item back in its place each time the app opens, instead of at the end.
Status: Not started. Settings > General > New items appear in places items from apps Icey hasn't seen before, but only once, so an item that comes back each launch is not moved again.
Related to #6 and #344.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#547: “[Feature Request]: Custom padding top & horizontally for pill shaped designs”
Problem: A request for padding around the rounded menu bar shapes, which sit close to the screen edges.
Status: Not started. Only the inset shape on notched screens is available, in Menu Bar Appearance > Use inset shape on screens with notch.
On screens without a notch there is no room to inset the shape without covering items.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#536: “[Feature Request]: introduce profiles to handle macbook's notch conditionally”
Problem: A request to use the Ice Bar on the MacBook's notched display and the normal menu bar on an external monitor.
Status: Available: Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on, then choose Displays with a notch or Built-in display. Full profiles are not started.
Upstream pointed to #26 and #62. Same setting as #555.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#531: “[Feature Request]: Allow profiles”
Problem: A request for layout profiles such as Home and Travel.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #26.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#522: “[Feature Request]: bring up applications with shortcut”
Problem: A request for a shortcut that opens a specific item, such as Wi-Fi.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #291.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#507: “[Feature Request]: Laptop/Desktop Modes”
Problem: A request for different layouts on the laptop screen and an external monitor.
Status: Not started. Only the Ice Bar can differ per display, in Settings > General > Use Ice Bar > Use on.
Same as #26.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#493: “[Feature Request]: Add preference key to display certain default icons”
Problem: A request for an admin preference that sets which icons are shown on first launch.
Status: Not started. Settings > Advanced > Export Settings and Import Settings move settings between Macs, but item order isn't included.
Related to #26.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#490: “[Feature Request]: Group Menu Icon with notification count (sum of the app in the group)”
Problem: A request for one group icon that opens several apps and shows their total notification count.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #46. Apps don't share their notification counts with Icey.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#488: “[Feature Request]: Hide App Menu”
Problem: A request to hide app menus so only the Apple menu and app name show.
Status: Partly available: Settings > Hotkeys > Toggle application menus, and Settings > Advanced > Hide app menus when showing menu bar items. Hiding single menus isn't possible because each app controls its own menus.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#483: “[Feature Request]: Multiple ice bars (folders/menus)”
Problem: A request for several Ice Bars that each open a group of items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #46.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#455: “[Feature Request]: Random play wallpaper support enhance”
Problem: A request for a smooth transition when a rotating wallpaper changes, instead of an abrupt switch.
Status: Not started. macOS no longer announces wallpaper changes, so Icey checks the wallpaper every few seconds and swaps it without a transition. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#439: “[Feature Request]: Spacers!”
Problem: A request for spacer items with a set width to group menu bar items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #91.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#438: “[Feature Request]: Hide mouse cursor behind the notch without triggering the menu bar”
Problem: A request to move the pointer behind the notch in a full screen app without the menu bar appearing.
Status: Not planned. macOS shows the menu bar when the pointer reaches the top of a full screen app, and other apps can't change that.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#436: “[Feature Request]: Always hide Application Menus except app name”
Problem: A request to hide every app menu except the app's name, to make room for menu bar items.
Status: Partly available: Settings > Hotkeys > Toggle application menus, and Settings > Advanced > Hide app menus when showing menu bar items. Hiding single menus isn't possible because each app controls its own menus.
Same as #488.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#432: “[Feature Request]: Battery icon (or other items) hidden when charging”
Problem: A request to hide the battery item while charging and show it on battery power.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#426: “[Feature Request]: Make the manu bar completely black regardless of wallpaper”
Problem: A request for a fully black menu bar to hide the notch, whatever the wallpaper.
Status: Not started. The tint is drawn as a translucent layer over the menu bar, so it can only darken it. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #82.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#425: “[Feature Request]: Show menu icon only when activity triggered”
Problem: A request to show items such as OneDrive only while syncing, or the battery only on battery power.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#420: “[Feature Request]: Hide visible icons while showing hidden icons”
Problem: A request to swap the visible items for the hidden ones on notched screens.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #240.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#415: “[Feature Request]: remove screen recording”
Problem: A request to use the app without granting Screen Recording.
Status: Available: Screen Recording is optional. Icey hides and shows items with Accessibility alone, and needs Screen Recording only for the menu bar appearance and images of items.
Same as #75.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#396: “[Feature Request]: A way to make the menu bar on non-notched macs look like the taller one on notched macs”
Problem: A request to make the menu bar on Macs without a notch as tall as on notched MacBooks.
Status: Not planned. macOS sets the menu bar's height, and other apps can't change it.
Same as #264.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#373: “[Feature Request]: Adjustable Menu Bar Height”
Problem: A request to make the menu bar on notched MacBooks shorter, to line up with the notch.
Status: Not planned. macOS sets the menu bar's height, and other apps can't change it.
Same as #264.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#370: “[Feature Request]: Menu Bar Shape Option on Second Monitor + height + transparency”
Problem: A request for the inset shape and a taller menu bar on displays without a notch, a transparent tint, and no flash when switching spaces.
Status: Not planned. Icey draws over the menu bar but can't resize it, and the inset shape needs a notched display's taller menu bar.
A tint with transparency is #651, and the flash on a space switch is #58.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#366: “[Feature Request]: Add Spacers in Menu Bar”
Problem: A request for spacers to group menu bar items.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #91.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#365: “[Feature Request]: Arrange "Hidden" and "Always Hidden" Section Items w/ cmd+drag”
Problem: A request to arrange the hidden and always-hidden items with Command-drag inside the Ice Bar.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #209.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#339: “[Feature Request]: When using ice bar with location"Mouse pointer", show menu items' contex window in that location”
Problem: A request to open an item's menu under the Ice Bar, instead of at the item's place in the menu bar.
Status: Not started. An item clicked in the Ice Bar is shown in the menu bar for a moment, and macOS opens its menu there. Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#317: “[Feature Request]: Temporary show hidden icon on update (Bartender Triggers)”
Problem: A request to show a hidden item for a while when it updates, like Bartender's triggers.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#304: “[Feature Request]: Adjust spacing between menu bar items”
Problem: A request to change the spacing between menu bar items.
Status: Available: Settings > General > Menu bar item spacing.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#293: “[Feature Request]: be able to press buttons from "menu bar items" window in the settings”
Problem: A request to press menu bar items from the Menu Bar Layout pane.
Status: Not planned for Menu Bar Layout. Search Menu Bar Items, in the Icey menu, lists every item and clicks the one you pick, hidden ones included.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#284: “[Feature Request]: Configure height of menubar”
Problem: A request to make the menu bar taller on an external display without a notch.
Status: Not planned. macOS sets the menu bar's height, and other apps can't change it.
Same as #264.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#270: “[Feature Request]: Allow limit features in the app without screen sharing permission”
Problem: The reporter couldn't give Ice the Screen Recording permission on a work computer, and asked to use it without.
Status: Available: Screen Recording is optional. Icey hides and shows items with Accessibility alone, and needs Screen Recording only for the menu bar appearance and images of items.
Same as #75.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#265: “[Feature Request] Menu bar items search bar”
Problem: The reporter asked to search menu bar items and open them, with a keyboard shortcut.
Status: Available: Search Menu Bar Items, in the Icey menu, lists every item and clicks the one you pick. Set a hotkey for it in Settings > Hotkeys.
Same as #5.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#264: “Option to make menubar taller on Macs without the notch”
Problem: The reporter asked for a taller menu bar on a Mac without a notch, like the one on notched MacBooks.
Status: Not planned. macOS sets the menu bar's height, and other apps can't change it.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#261: “[Feature Request]: Display the app icon upon activation by hotkey or other conditions.”
Problem: The reporter asked to show an app's item only while the app is active, or with a hotkey.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62. Groups of items are #46.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#248: “[Feature Request]: Allow Ice to Run Without Screen Recording Permission”
Problem: The reporter didn't want to grant Screen Recording, and doesn't use the menu bar styling.
Status: Available: Screen Recording is optional. Icey hides and shows items with Accessibility alone, and needs Screen Recording only for the menu bar appearance and images of items.
Same as #75.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#237: “[Feature Request]: Option to also show Ice bar on hover of the Ice menubar icon, not just divider of the hidden area”
Problem: The reporter asked for the Ice Bar to open when hovering over the Ice icon, not only over the menu bar.
Status: Not planned. Show on hover works in any empty part of the menu bar, and clicking the Icey icon shows the hidden items.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#204: “[Feature Request]: Spacers and Groups”
Problem: The reporter asked for spaces between items and for groups that expand on click or hover.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #46 for groups and #91 for spacers.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#173: “[Feature Request]: Spaces support”
Problem: The reporter asked for a menu bar view of Spaces and a way to name them.
Status: Not planned. Showing and naming spaces is outside menu bar management. Apps such as Spaceman do this.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#165: “[Feature Request]: Usage Guide”
Problem: A detailed guide to the app's main features was requested.
Status: Partly available: the README's Features section and FREQUENT_ISSUES.md explain the main features. A full usage guide is not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #601.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#161: “[Feature Request]: Hide dock icon”
Problem: The reporter asked to hide Ice's Dock icon.
Status: Available: Icey has no Dock icon, except while Settings is open or while it hides the app menus. Turn off Settings > Advanced > Show Icey in the Dock while Settings is open to remove it there too.
Same as #139. The Dock icon that appears with hidden app menus is #906.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#159: “[Feature Request]: Hover to show function edit”
Problem: Show on hover reacted anywhere in the empty menu bar, including left of the notch, not only where the hidden items appear.
Status: Not planned. Show on hover reacts to any empty part of the menu bar outside the app menus and the notch. Hidden items are moved off screen, so they have no area of their own to hover over.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#157: “[Feature Request]: Hide / Display Items According to the Focus Mode”
Problem: The reporter asked to show or hide items depending on the current Focus mode.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62 and #26.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#156: “[Feature Request]: Auto-Hide "Non-Hidden" Section When Expanding "Hidden" Section”
Problem: The reporter asked for the visible items to make room when the hidden section is shown, as Bartender does.
Status: Not started in the menu bar. The Ice Bar, in Settings > General > Use Ice Bar, shows hidden items below the menu bar, so they don't need room there. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #68 and #240.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#155: “[Feature Request]: show icons when specific app is active/on focus”
Problem: The reporter asked to show an item, such as Docker's, only while a certain app is in use.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#138: “[Feature Request]: Show bar icons below native menu bar”
Problem: The reporter asked to show hidden items in a bar below the menu bar, as Bartender does.
Status: Available: turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items in a bar below the menu bar. Settings > Displays can turn it on or off for each display.
Same as #1.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#135: “[Feature Request]: Item Groups to help compartmentalize icons”
Problem: The reporter asked for groups of items to save room on small screens.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #46.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#134: “[Feature Request]: Hide current icons when more button is pressed”
Problem: The reporter asked for the always shown items to hide while the hidden ones are shown, to make room.
Status: Not started in the menu bar. The Ice Bar, in Settings > General > Use Ice Bar, shows hidden items below the menu bar, so they don't need room there. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #68 and #240.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#125: “[Feature Request]: Hide Icons Right to Ice Temporarily to Make Room on Notch Screens”
Problem: The reporter asked to hide the always shown items while the hidden ones are shown, on displays with a notch.
Status: Not started in the menu bar. The Ice Bar, in Settings > General > Use Ice Bar, shows hidden items below the menu bar, so they don't need room there. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #68 and #240.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#122: “[Feature Request]: Hide App Menu”
Problem: The reporter asked to hide the app menus and show only the Apple menu.
Status: Partly available: Settings > Hotkeys > Toggle application menus, and Settings > Advanced > Hide app menus when showing menu bar items. Hiding single menus isn't possible because each app controls its own menus.
Same as #488.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#120: “[Feature Request]: Allow to show hidden items under the menu bar instead”
Problem: On Macs with a notch, the reporter asked to show hidden items under the menu bar, as many were hidden by the notch.
Status: Available: turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items in a bar below the menu bar. Settings > Displays can turn it on or off for each display.
Same as #1.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#85: “[Feature Request]: Ability to define triggers”
Problem: The reporter asked for triggers that show items, as in Bartender.
Status: Not started. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #62.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#84: “[Feature Request]: Is it possible to move the position when expanded?”
Problem: The reporter asked for the shown items to appear under the menu bar.
Status: Available: turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items in a bar below the menu bar. Settings > Displays can turn it on or off for each display.
Same as #1.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#71: “Can the app icon be displayed below the notification bar like Bartender does?”
Problem: The reporter asked to show items below the menu bar, as Bartender does.
Status: Available: turn on Settings > General > Use Ice Bar to show hidden items in a bar below the menu bar. Settings > Displays can turn it on or off for each display.
Same as #1.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#65: “[Feature Request] Show active windows on the Menubar”
Problem: The reporter asked to switch between open windows from the menu bar, like a taskbar.
Status: Not planned. Switching windows is outside menu bar management.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#51: “[feature suggestion] support ventura and monterey”
Problem: The reporter asked for support for macOS 13 and 12.
Status: Not planned. Icey needs macOS 14 or later, because it relies on APIs that older versions don't have.
Same as #49.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#49: “[Feature Request]: Support of other macOS versions except Sonoma”
Problem: The reporter asked for support for macOS versions before 14.
Status: Not planned. Icey needs macOS 14 or later, because it relies on APIs that older versions don't have.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#37: “Feature request: Stylization for internet status”
Problem: The reporter asked for the menu bar style to change with the internet connection.
Status: Not started. Changing the appearance when something happens would come with triggers (#62). Pull requests welcome.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#36: “Feature Request: Menu bar design style to fade in to / out of the display notch at the top of the screen.”
Problem: The reporter asked for a gradient that turns black around the notch.
Status: Not started. The tint is drawn as a translucent layer over the menu bar, so it can only darken it. Pull requests welcome.
Same as #82.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#33: “Double click for the "Always Hidden" section”
Problem: The reporter asked for double-clicking the menu bar to show the always-hidden items again.
Status: Available: Option-click an empty area of the menu bar (with Show on click on) or the Icey icon to show the always-hidden section, or set a hotkey in Settings > Hotkeys.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#32: “[Feature Request] Move menu bar away from screen edges”
Problem: The reporter asked to inset the split shape from the screen edges, as Bartender does.
Status: Not started. Only the inset shape on notched screens is available, in Menu Bar Appearance > Use inset shape on screens with notch.
Same as #547.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#27: “[Feature Request] Change menubar tint depending on light/dark mode.”
Problem: The reporter asked for a dark tint in dark mode and none in light mode.
Status: Available: Menu Bar Appearance > Use dynamic appearance applies different settings in light and dark mode.
Feature requestjordanbaird/Ice#16: “[FR] Support macOS 12+”
Problem: The reporter asked for support for macOS 12.
Status: Not planned. Icey needs macOS 14 or later, because it relies on APIs that older versions don't have.
Same as #49.
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