Ice 0.11.13 (macOS Tahoe Beta 2)

[jordanbaird]

Note

This beta release fixes a majority of known issues introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe.

What's New

• Adopted liquid glass design.
• Reorganized settings interface for more intuitive navigation.
• More helpful descriptions and tips throughout the app.
• Added an option to disable the context menu that appears when right clicking the menu bar.
• Combined or removed some redundant/unused settings.

Known Issues

• macOS Tahoe Only: When using the new transparent menu bar, the area behind the bar may have a noticeably different brightness when Ice's "Menu Bar Appearance" settings are enabled.

  Workaround: Enable the Show menu bar background option in System Settings > Menu Bar.

Full Changelog: 0.11.13-dev.1...0.11.13-dev.2

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This discussion was created from the release Ice 0.11.13 (macOS Tahoe Beta 2).

[jordanbaird]

Let me know how this version works! I think I fixed all the major things, minus the appearance issue mentioned above. I'll give it a day or so before doing a full release just to be sure.

[jordanbaird]

@Kreeblah Something else you can try is switching to another space (i.e. desktop). For whatever reason, a few people have had an issue where item capture completely breaks until they switch spaces. Then it's fine, even after switching back.

[Kreeblah]

@jordanbaird - Hmmm. That doesn't seem to take care of it, either, for me.

[lnlyssg]

I ran defaults delete com.jordanbaird.Ice and the previous commands but it hasn't helped as I'm still getting delays.

Running on an M2 MacBook Air
Never used a self-compiled version of Ice
Just the in-built notched display
Not running anything else that out of the ordinary

Switching to another space seems to help, although only on the second time I tried it weirdly.

[lnlyssg]

Looks like the space-swapping trick works OK up until I close the laptop and the delay returns after sleep. Switching spaces gets it working again afterwards though.

[Coros]

Any ETA on the production release? I realize I can download the beta, but I didn't want to deploy the beta to our devices. Thanks for your hard work!

[artisticmedic]

You should know that I went to a local cowork space and someone was recommending Ice to someone over Bartender!

[jordanbaird]

Ha awesome! I love hearing things like that!

[mdlt7z]

It's really well done! I appreciate your effort. It doesn't directly affect how it works, but how about trying to implement an icon for Tahoe using Icon Composer? You might not see it very often, though... :)

[jordanbaird]

I have something in the works for that that will also include a slight redesign of the "Ice Cube" glyph, since I just kind of threw the current one together without much thought.

[daschles]

In Menubar layout, I get the error "unable to display menu bar items" and nothing, indeed, shows - i've tried redoing the permissions but that doesn't help. M3Air.

[twynne]

And weirdly for me it's different on two different machines (with broadly the same software installed and thus menubar items). Both on same release of MacOS (Tahoe). The Macbook (M4) works fine, the Mac Mini (M4 Pro) displays this error.

[PatrickTulskie]

Also having this problem. Reverting to .13-dev.1 fixed it. I also tried redoing my permissions with tccutil reset All com.jordanbaird.Ice and it was still giving the "Unable to display menu bar items" message.

[PatrickTulskie]

Just wanted to update this, the latest dev build works fine on my machines that use an external monitor (no notch). My laptop with a notch has the "Unable to display menu bar items" message on the latest dev build. It's fine on dev 1 though.

[Mashull]

the same to me...

[marrrc]

I have the same issue on my macbook pro m1 unfortunately. as soon as i enable "Use Ice Bar", it breaks with the "Unable to display menu bar items" message. when i disable ice bar, just hiding/showing items works. I have 2 other macs where ice bar is working though. reset without settings etc didn't help.

[zhuoqun-chen]

Hi @jordanbaird, thank you for this fix, and my problem is that when clicking custom icon, the previous split 2nd menu bar under native menu bar just collapse to the native menu bar's left-most area, and then the custom icon itself also disappeared.

Also, how could I install this hotfix using brew? Thank you!

[jordanbaird]

brew install --cask jordanbaird-ice@beta

[damonto]

1. The Ice logo is not displayed in the Menu Bar. 2. After uninstalling Ice, the Ice item still remains in the Menu Bar. (I think this is a bug of macOS Tahoe)

[jordanbaird]

I think you're right about it being a Tahoe bug (for both things). I've seen this happen with a few different apps myself. What makes it worse is that there isn't an easy way to manually remove an app from the list. I remember reading somewhere that there's a plist file you can edit, but I don't remember where it is.

[damonto]

I found a command that can remove the leftovers in the menu bar, but I don't want to do this because it requires disabling SIP.

rm -f /Users/$USER/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.controlcenter/Library/Preferences/group.com.apple.controlcenter.plist

[kelvinexin]

Thank you for the update!
This version currently works almost perfect for me on my MacBook Pro (M1) and I'm gonna check it later on the other one (M3 Pro)

[cookie-drummer]

This build works perfectly, thank you for amazing work!

[lcottingham]

Bug (for me, at least) in 0.11.13 + MacOS 26 Tahoe
In the menu bar layout, when moving an active item (i.e. the battery item) from 'active' to 'hidden', the icon disappears from the 'hidden' items list after a few seconds in the menu. The icon is however still visible in the actual hidden UI popup.

[jordanbaird]

I think this is a state conflict caused by some UI-related changes. As a temporary workaround, try switching to a different settings pane, then back to the layout pane (I think that should resolve the conflict). I'll work on a more permanent fix.

[iwex]

Hello! Not working at all. Forever loading

[jordanbaird]

Could you try the following:

1. Quit Ice
2. Open Terminal and run tccutil reset All com.jordanbaird.Ice
   • If you're not comfortable with Terminal, you can open System Settings > Privacy & Security and manually delete Ice from both the Accessibility and Screen & System Audio Recording permissions lists. If you do it this way, make sure to COMPLETELY delete each permission, not just uncheck and recheck them.
3. Relaunch Ice and grant both permissions.

[iwex]

It doesn't help. Do you have any logs anywhere?

[iwex]

in console i have this logs when opened Ice Menu Bar Layout

fault	10:48:59.609261+0300	Ice	Publishing changes from within view updates is not allowed, this will cause undefined behavior.
default	10:48:59.647526+0300	Ice	Service <private> status: 1
fault	10:48:59.909322+0300	Ice	Publishing changes from within view updates is not allowed, this will cause undefined behavior.
error	10:48:59.955073+0300	Ice	Missing control item for hidden section, clearing menu bar item cache

[ryanblog]

same

[PsyPryss]

Try allowing Ice in the menu bar. That worked for me.

[RoversX]

Amazing work! The only issue I noticed is that the bar appears when you are in full-screen mode and have enabled hover. Users can't click on other tabs. The expected behavior is for the bar to appear when the cursor reaches the top of the screen.

[jordanbaird]

Do you know whether this also happened in 0.11.13-dev.1? Just trying to get an idea on what change might have caused this.

[RoversX]

Hi, for some unknown reason, I can't activate the bar in full screen, even if I restart ice or system. it just won't appear🤣

[njguru]

How do I download the beta?

[jordanbaird]

Download the zip file in the "Assets" section here: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/releases/tag/0.11.13-dev.2

[stopsopa]

Thank you for your effort Jordan

[loushangdashabi]

Thanks for your effort, this version of Ice works well on my m4pro MacBook Pro, except that there may be a shadow left when clicking the Ice icon again to cancel the ice bar display, but it's not a big deal.

[zhuoqun-chen]

hi @jordanbaird, do you have plans to release one official minor bump release today? I'm using brew bundle so I can only upgrade to minor release instead of beta tags. Thanks!

[portanoo]

Congratulations for your work 👍🏽
You App seems to be better now that Bartender 6.
Just issue like you say with your bar background and shadow.
Bartender is now removed from my Macbook

[alybo]

Thank you, beta 2 works well. Please add the option to make the menu bar black and round the edges. The screenshot shows an example of how this is done in Bartender.

[Spoekenkieker]

Works fine for me (though I don’t use it.)

—> Settings —> Menu Bar Appearance

[Spoekenkieker]

[alybo]

That's not it. I want the entire menu bar to be black. No split.

[qvminh]

Run on multiple screen, and the one that have higher resolution the floating icon is smaller, the other is normal or the other is super hugh and the higher resolution screen is normal:

[SeckinTataroglu]

I've been experiencing the same issue since the 0.11.13 Beta 2 update. Beta 1 works fine.
Running on MacBook Pro M4 Pro, using displaylink for 2 external screens.
For some reason, I suspect that it gets conflicted by the BoringNotch app I use. I might be making it up though, just an observation, if it helps.

[SeckinTataroglu]

I've gone back to the Beta 1 version, it does show up with smaller icons or larger, however, once an item is clicked it does not go back to the container automatically so that I have to go back to the Ice settings and rearrange the container layout. Since I don't click on the items too frequently, I think I can live with this until the Beta 3 update fixes two issues mentioned above.

[MateuszKubuszok]

So first, thank you for the update. 🙏 I am using 0.11.13-dev.2 and it mostly fixed the issues that appeared with Tahoe.

However, I am also affected by the "Unable to display menu bar items" issue. Only yesterday I found a clue drowned in the see of duplicated issues: I have Desktop & Dock > Mission Control > Displays have separate Spaces option turned off. I tested that when I turn it on, the issue disappears, and Ice returns to its full pre-Tahoe functionality.

Unfortunately, I need that option, so I need to live without Ice bar for a while, but hopefully highlighting this will help someone else (and maybe it might help pinning the actual cause of the issue).

[gullevek]

I can confirm that this fixes the problem of nothing showing in the ICE Bar. And like you I need this setting, so currently I am ... ice-less :D

[NathanHazout]

@jordanbaird, would appreciate a status update on where we stand with the production release of the new version.
I actually haven't downloaded the beta, thinking I can live with the broken experience until the prod version is released.

Thanks a lot for your great work!

[radfaraf]

Someone else opened a bug on this, and I commented that I have it too. But if I rearrange stuff then restart it usually loses some or all of my changes.

[sreyaann0109]

Thank you for your hard work!
I've noticed that whenever I set up my bar layout, a few icons just don't follow the rules. For example, with Stats.app, I set everything to be hidden, but every time I open it, a few of them still show up as visible.

(Macbook air m2 2022, Tahoe 26.0.1)

[talhakhan-git]

I think I am having a similar issue, whenever I click an icon in the hidden menu it appears in the menu bar as visible. I have attached an image below. This happens with pretty much all menu bar items. But sometimes it will eventually re-hide. Not sure if this is expected behaviour but it's not my preference. Thanks to the developer for making this thing though, its great overall.

[cckelley]

When you say, "Adopted liquid glass design" what exactly do you mean? I assume you just mean the general app itself, so setting, etc. Would love to see the liquid glass effect applied to the menu bar itself — not sure why Apple didn't do this to begin with. Also would love some folder options. Great work though!

[JoshFink]

Hi, is there something I'm perhaps missing, maybe a setting? It seems that whenever I add a new app, or more specifically when a new menu bar item is enabled, it always goes directly into the hidden items.

Is there no way to direct all new items to the visible menu bar? I'd much rather have to move stuff out of visible rather than go see if something is in the hiddne.

[burakkurkcu]

this is not working for Tahoe 26.1 (25B78)

[Spoekenkieker]

FWIW, it mostly works for me on macOS Tahoe 26.1, and so far, also on 26.2 public beta 🤷‍♂️

[burakkurkcu]

is ice bar working for you?

[Christian-AUT]

Bluetooth lags with Keyboard/Trackpad on MacOS 15.7.2/26.1

When I use ICE for MacOS 26.1 on a MacBook Pro M2, I notice lags with Bluetooth Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard.

This happened since the update to MacOS 15.7.2. Before, with MacOS 15.7.1 everything worked fine with Ice Bar Tool.
Apple has changed something with the last updates that causes Bluetooth lags.

I disabled ICE so it does not start after a restart, and everything works fine on Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad.

Does someone else have issues with Bluetooth lags when using ICE on MacOS 26.1/15.7.2?

[glgray]

I am running macOS 26.1 with Ice 0.11.13-dev.2 and I use both a Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard via Bluetooth and I have not noticed any sort of lag.

[Christian-AUT]

UPDATE

I have tried it again after a clean deinstallation with AppCleaner and found out that the issues happen in combination with Asus DisplayWidget Center. After the deinstallation of the Asus display app and a restart, everything works normally with Ice 0.11.13-Dev2 and MacOS 26.1.

[NathanHazout]

Has this been abandoned?

[talhakhan-git]

Someone on Reddit mentioned the developer is doing other things. So somewhat abandoned but he might be back?

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[ryangarato]

I want to give a heartfelt thanks to anyone who has donated or purchased the app. Without your support, Ice would not be where it is today. I also want to make it clear that I am not abandoning this app. Development is merely slowing down. Thank you for your understanding.

From:
#424

[theLoksta]

Although, this was originally posted on November 4, 2024 - things may have changed over the last year.

(Just to clarify, I don't have any issues with development slowing down - 0.11.13-dev2 is working well enough for me on macOS 26.1...)

[theschles]

@ryangarato / @jordanbaird I purchased a license some time ago and I fully understand. Stay employed. Make sure you have enough income to support yourself and your loved ones now and in the future. I'm doing just fine on v0.11.13-dev2 on Tahoe 26.1

[theschles]

@ryangarato / @jordanbaird I purchased a license some time ago and I fully understand. Stay employed. Make sure you have enough income to support yourself and your loved ones now and in the future. I'm doing just fine on v0.11.13-dev2 on Tahoe 26.1

[alybo]

As a loyal fan, I look forward to updates. but I understand the developer’s situation) there are several new analogues, but I’m still waiting for new versions from Ice! =)

[mrtnsp]

Hi, I've used beta2 for a month now on a Macbook Air M4, MacOS 26.1 and everything works for me. It's just the Macbook for me, no external gadgets or monitors.