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Bartender checks for items removed by menu bar apps, but was producing some false positives in some situations, causing items to not be shown, we have improved on this. Pressing esc while searching will now exit search and reset the menu bar, pressing enter will start keyboard navigation.

Other icon options now display a variation of the icon when Bartender is showing Bartender items in the menu bar. For some users Bartender would not always expand the menu bar when needed remove the left menu so all items could be seen this is now fixed.

For a small number of users, items can become messed up in the menu bar, not aligned to each other correctly we are investigating the cause still.

With this version Bartender should be able to reset them. Bartender 3 license checking is a bit more stringent than Bartender 2, if a user had trailing white space in there license name from Bartender 2 it would fail to verify in Bartender 3. Version 1. Version 72 of PIA is compatible with Bartender 3, we have updated the message shown for older versions of PIA, letting them know if they update it will work.

Bartender was not checking to see if another version of Bartender may be running, this has been fixed. Bartender 3 3. With previous versions there was a bug that would effect setups with multiple screens items out of position, showing as not working, slow transitions , this should now be fixed.

We recommend restarting macOS after updating if you use multiple screens. Some users have been experiencing items not keeping their position especially AirPlay Display , this version should improve on this, if not totally fix it, we are still working on getting this spot on.

When Bartenders menu item was hidden the search menu would not display correctly, this has been fixed. Previously if you have the Bartender menu item hidden, you could not quit Bartender, we added in a Quit button to the About Preferences tab.

Some users have been experiencing items not keeping there position especially Air Display , this version should improve on this, if not totally fix it, we are still working on getting this spot on. This has been improved and should now reliably remove the left menu when needed to show all Bartender Bar items. Also added an Advanced setting to disable this. This is a Beta release, so if you experience anything unusual, please do let us know.

We have 2 known bugs that we needed more logging in to investigate, bartender not removing the left menu when needed to show all items , and apps not working with Bartender after a period of time on some systems, the extra logging is now in for these. If you set your own image for the Bartender icon, then selected another item, it would still show your image as selected, this is now fixed.

If a menu items position had not been specifically set at any point, it could swap places with other menu items set to the same position, this has been fixed.

It was possible that a copy of a menu item could remain visible when showing for updates, this should be fixed. With version 3. This could happen if an app went from being sandboxed in previous versions, to not sandboxed in new versions, we now detect this and work with apps like this correctly. If an app removed a menu item in a specific way, Bartender would not detect this and would even bring it back into the menu bar, this is fixed.

If the search menu opened to the right of Bartenders menu item, it was possible for it to end up partially offscreen, this has been fixed. Items would start migrating or jumping positions, 2 issues have been fixed that resolve this, please let us know if you still experience this. Its possible for some apps to not work with Bartender until they are restarted once, this is now indicated in preferences when this happens. With instructions to restart the effected app.

If an item changed again while showing for updates, the display time was not being extended, this has been fixed. This was caused by a setting from Bartender 2 for hiding Bartender's menu item, this has been fixed. If a menu item cannot be moved Bartender 3 will wait until its timeout to display the items, in this version we will start ignoring non controllable items after a certain number of attempts, at this point transitions will be faster.

This was caused by a setting from Bartender 2 for hiding Bartenders menu item, this has been fixed. Little Snitch being a security product by default disables GUI Scripting of itself to prevent an app being able to disable it , Bartender 3 uses this to control the menu items, we do not want to bypass this control so instead have a message to users of Little Snitch letting them know what they can do: Enable GUI Scripting in Little Snitch, or set Little Snitch to "Always show in the menu bar".

If a menu item cannot be moved Bartender 3 will wait till its timeout to display the items, in this version we will start ignoring non controllable items after a certain number of attempts, at this point transitions will be faster.

Instructions and Help for Bartender 3 can be found in Support. Thanks for downloading. Release Notes. Menu item order being lost by macOS For some users, macOS would occasionally lose the order of their menu items. Gap left on inactive menu bar On macOS Catalina if the user hid the Bartender menu item a gap would be left on the inactive menu bar of a multi screen setup.

Fix for Bartender menu not showing on secondary screen A bug in macOS Catalina would prevent Bartenders menu showing when the user has 2 screens setup with one above the other.

Fix for order of items in Bartender Preferences Apps starting with a lowercased name would appear after all uppercased names in Bartender Preferences, this has been fixed. Fix for show Full menu bar requiring 3 activations After changing space, Bartender would require activating full menu bar 3 times before working this has been fixed.

Fix for Permissions Success window showing when starting Bartender For some users when starting Bartender at login, the permissions success window would show. Crash fix We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, we believe this build fixes the crash. Multipass app not controllable Multipass has an uncommon app setup, which Bartender didn't handle. Rare crash fix We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, we believe this build fixes the crash.

Crashing when macOS does not apply Accessibility Permission Correctly There is a bug in macOS that can cause Accessibility permissions to fail for an app, even though it has been setup correctly and is reported as such. Item position being lost There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose their order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning but not the order , some users are experiencing the order of their items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this.

Hiding left menu not activating Some users have experienced issues with the left menu not being hidden when needed, work has been done to fix this. Some UI elements not correct colour in dark mode These should now all work correctly in Dark mode. Apps without Display Name would be not be displayed correctly Apps that do not have a display name could end up without a name in Bartender Preferences, this has now been fixed.

Bug Fixes Rare crash fix We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, we believe this build fixes the crash. Item position being lost There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose their order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning but not the order , some users are experiencing the order of there items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this.

Item position being lost There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose there order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning but not the order , some users are experiencing the order of there items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this.

Previous Test Build Crash Previous test builds introduced a possible crash, more work has been done to fix this. Bartender was not added to permissions list On macOS Catalina, Bartender was not getting added to the screen capture list in preferences before prompting the user, this has been fixed. Bug Fixes Rare crash fixes We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, this build now has fixes to hopefully prevent the crash, or give us some more information about it.

Initial macOS Bug Fixes Crashing when macOS does not apply Accessibility Permission Correctly There is a bug in macOS that can cause Accessibility permissions to fail for an app, even though it has been setup correctly and is reported as such.

Bug Fixes Bartender was not added to permissions list On macOS Catalina, Bartender was not getting added to the screen capture list in preferences before prompting the user, this has been fixed. Added support for Little Snitch Internet Access Policy Little Snitch now allows applications to declare the connections they make and why, giving users better insight into what an app is doing.

Bug Fixes Bartender would autohide if an iStat Menus menu item was activated then dismissed We now take this into account and Bartender should not autohide when a iStat Menus items popup is dismissed. If autohide menu bar is enabled in macOS the menu bar would hide when Bartender was clicked In macOS Mojave with autohide menu bar enabled there is a bug that will hide the menu bar when a menu items position is changed, this would cause the menu bar to hide when a user clicked on Bartender to show hidden items.

Spotlight being dismissed when showing for updates The spotlight window could get dismissed when menu items showed for updates, this has been fixed. Slow transitions on larger setups Some users with larger setups many menu items, multiple screens etc. Support for apps with binaries signed with different ID to executable name Some apps not in a bundle format have a different signing ID to there executable name, this would prevent Bartender being able to control them.

Show All Items being hidden again straight away after showing for first time Fixed issue with show all items or search being dismissed first time they were shown. Possible Crash Fix A possible crash and exception have been fixed. Show for updates with multiple screens giving false positives Due to an odd behaviour by an Apple framework, show for updates could think there was a change when the user has mutiple monitors setup in a specific way, this has been worked around.

Updated UI text Some of the description text in Preferences has been updated to make it easier for new users. Typo fixes There was a typo in the previous version, this is fixed.

Slow transitions on larger setups Some users with larger setups may menu items multiple screens etc could experience slower transitions, this build contains changes to try and improve this. Bug Fixes Bartender would autohide if a iStat Menus item was activated then dismissed We now take this into account and Bartender should not autohide when a iStat menus items popup is dismissed.

Bug Fixes If autohide menu bar is enabled in macOS the menu bar would hide when Bartender was clicked, In macOS Mojave with autohide menu bar enabled there is a bug that will hide the menu bar when a menu items position is changed, this would cause the menu bar to hide when a user clicked on Bartender to show hidden items. Slow transitions Some users with bigger systems could experience slow transitions, this build contains changes to try and improve this.

Bug Fixes Ask for Accessibility Authorization Bartender 3 will now ask for Accessibility Authorization when it does not have authorization. Changed wording of some UI elements to help new users Some new users found some UI labels confusing, we have reworded them to try and help with this, please let us know if this helps or not. Fix for apps moving position Some apps would change position in the menu bar dropbox was one example , this should be fixed. Typo fix There was a typo in the previous version, this is fixed.

Known Issues Some elements in dark mode not showing correctly on feedback form We are aware of this, and currently it appears to be a macOS Mojave Beta issue, we will monitor this and fix when appropriate. Bug Fixes Ask for Accessibility Authorization Bartender 3 will now ask for Accessibility Authorization and will not crash when it does not have authorization.

Known Issues Some elements in dark mode not showing correctly We are aware of this, and currently it appears to me a macOS Mojave Beta issue, we will monitor this and fix when appropriate. Crash reporter showing Bartender will show the crash reporter if the previous version crashed before launching this version, this is not the current version crashing, just reporting the previous crash.

Bug Fixes Better compatibility with some app setups Adding in compatibility for more unusual app setups. UI Fixes and improvements Small things, such as typo fixes and better explanations. Fix for Airplay Display still moving Airplay Display could still change position if set to "Always show in menu bar" this has been fixed. Fix for individual item control of Setapp version of iStat Menus The Setapp version of iStat menus could not be individually controlled, this has been fixed.

Fix for crash in previous test build Version 3. Google Backup and Sync and other apps without a name in localised languages Apps that do not have a process name in a localisation would not be controlled by Bartender, this has been fixed.

Bartender deactivating Screen Saver It was possible for Bartender to deactivate the screen saver if manually activated. Show for updates activating on screen change It was possible for Bartender to show show for update items when activating another screen, this has been improved, but is still possible in some specific situations, this will be fixed in a coming update.

Better Amphetamine compatibility It was possible for Bartender to not be able to control Amphetamine in some setups, we have worked around this. Search menu hotkey bug If you pressed the search hotkey more than once the menu would reappear for each extra hotkey press. Notification Center Activating For a few users, Notification Center could sometimes activate by mistake, this should now be fixed.

Bartender 3 Test Build 3. Bug Fixes Better compatibility with some app setups Some apps have old preferences remaining from previous versions etc, Bartender now better detects this correctly.

Crash fix We have had reports of a crash, we believe we have fixed this. Multiscreen setups Bartender now works more reliably on setups with multiple screens. Autohide on App Switching Autohide would only trigger on mouse events, we now also autohide when a new app becomes active say via keyboard app switching.

Better checking for removed items Bartender checks for items removed by menu bar apps, but was producing some false positives in some situations, causing items to not be shown, we have improved on this.

Esc and Enter Keys while searching Pressing esc while searching will now exit search and reset the menu bar, pressing enter will start keyboard navigation. Expanded menu bar not always showing For some users Bartender would not always expand the menu bar when needed remove the left menu so all items could be seen this is now fixed. Items messed up in menu bar, not aligned to each other correctly.

Bartender transition speed Bartender should be slightly faster at switching states for some users. Airport Displays Position changing We have added in more fixes to try and get Airport Displays to not jump position.

Licenses with white space not accepted Bartender 3 license checking is a bit more stringent than Bartender 2, if a user had trailing white space in there license name from Bartender 2 it would fail to verify in Bartender 3. Private Internet Access compatibility message Version 72 of PIA is compatible with Bartender 3, we have updated the message shown for older versions of PIA, letting them know if they update it will work.

Bartender already running check Bartender was not checking to see if another version of Bartender may be running, this has been fixed. Bartender transition speed Bartender should be slightly faster at switching states. Fix for crash in Test Build 3. Bug Fixes Multiscreen issues With previous versions there was a bug that would effect setups with multiple screens items out of position, showing as not working, slow transitions , this should now be fixed.

AppleConnect menu item not controllable This now works. Menu item positioning Some users have been experiencing items not keeping their position especially AirPlay Display , this version should improve on this, if not totally fix it, we are still working on getting this spot on. Search not searching all items Search would only search items with settings, this has been fixed.

Search not displaying correctly When Bartenders menu item was hidden the search menu would not display correctly, this has been fixed. About window showing trial info after licensing The about window would show trial information after a license was applied. This is fixed. Show for updates issues A number of bugs when showing for updates have been fixed, this should be a lot better.

Quit Button in Preferences Previously if you have the Bartender menu item hidden, you could not quit Bartender, we added in a Quit button to the About Preferences tab. Items showing for updates on space change Items should no longer show for updates on a space change. AppleConnect menu item not controllable This should now be controllable. Menu item positioning Some users have been experiencing items not keeping there position especially Air Display , this version should improve on this, if not totally fix it, we are still working on getting this spot on.

Bug Fixes Compatibility improvements Some apps could interpret Bartender control as a click, this has been improved. Gap on second screen when Bartender item hidden This is fixed. Hide left application menu when needed This has been improved and should now reliably remove the left menu when needed to show all Bartender Bar items.

Bartender 3 Public Beta 3. Search window appearing in wrong place on multi screen setups This is fixed. Known bugs We have 2 known bugs that we needed more logging in to investigate, bartender not removing the left menu when needed to show all items , and apps not working with Bartender after a period of time on some systems, the extra logging is now in for these.

Apple Keychain Previously we could not control the Apple Keychain item, this is now working. Fix for wrong icon shown for Bartender menu item icon If you set your own image for the Bartender icon, then selected another item, it would still show your image as selected, this is now fixed.

Apple Eject menu item This item was not controlled on macOS Sierra due to a naming change, this is fixed. Harvest App Compatibility Bartender would activate the Harvest popup, this is fixed. Items changing position If a menu items position had not been specifically set at any point, it could swap places with other menu items set to the same position, this has been fixed.

Fix for multiple show for update items showing It was possible that a copy of a menu item could remain visible when showing for updates, this should be fixed. I know that a lot of these could be switched off, but I like the hassle-free option of simply clicking on them rather than having to go into the System Preferences to use them.

Bartender 3 lets me organize my many menu bar icons. By hiding some of them, I free up space and make it easier to find the one I want to use. The hidden items are revealed with a click of the Bartender icon or a keyboard shortcut so that even the ones I use infrequently are still there at my fingertips. Bartender 3 does not interfere with this function and adds to it by allowing the hidden icons to also be rearranged the same way.

Bartender provides an easy way to show or hide app icons in the menu bar. When you open the Bartender Preferences, focus on the Menu Items tab. The left panel will alphabetically list all the active menu bar items, including the System items such as Notification Center.

The right-hand side enables you to customize each one individually. Of course, the first choice is whether you want an app icon to be shown or hidden in the menu bar. Next, you decide whether you want the hidden items to be shown when there is an update and if so, how long it will remain. Lastly, you can customize the name of the app to whatever you find most memorable so you find them more efficiently. Hidden items can be shown whenever you want by clicking on the Bartender Icon or using a user-defined hotkey.

With Autohide activated, they will get hidden again when you switch to another app, including the Finder. The Appearance tab lets you set up how you want Bartender to look. No menu bar item is off-limits to Bartender. Even Bartender and Notification Center can be hidden.

De-selecting the visible box hides the Bartender menu bar icon. You will then have to have a keyboard shortcut to get back to Bartender. This contains an Energy Saving switch that will make Bartender check for item updates less often when on battery power. Bartender already uses very little energy when doing this, but to extend battery life to the max this can be checked. Make sure you have a good look at this area because there are some very interesting tools to be found.

The first item is a keyboard shortcut to show or hide the hidden menu bar items. The second hotkey selection allows you to see the maximum number of menu bar items you could fit across the top by removing all but the apple symbol from the left-side menu items. I was in fact a bit worried when I first activated this as all the Finder menu items disappeared. They came back when I tapped the same hotkey again.

The next item is used to show all your menu bar icons at the same time exactly what you would see if you were not using Bartender. This is where you would use the memorable name you gave the app.