Tame your menu bar — back on modern macOS

Ice 2 can hide menu bar items again on macOS 27. macOS 27 rebuilt the menu bar in a way the old approach could no longer follow, so this release adds a backend built for it, along with a new drag-and-drop Layout editor. On macOS 26 and earlier, nothing changes. · Hiding works again on macOS 27. macOS 27 changed how the menu bar is put together, and Ice 2's old method could no longer see the individual icons — so nothing hid, and Layout stayed empty. Ice 2 now finds menu bar apps through Accessibility and asks macOS itself to hide them. The Ice icon, your Hidden and Always-Hidden sections, your hotkeys and automatic rehiding all work as before. Grant Ice 2 Accessibility permission if you have not already. · A Layout editor built for macOS 27. Drag an app into Visible, Hidden or Always-Hidden, or pick a section from the card's menu; changes save as you make them. One card covers all of an app's menu bar icons, because macOS 27 shows and hides them together. Your saved layout profiles still work: applying one sorts its items into sections and tells you what could not be matched. Assigning a section does not change icon order — for that, Command-drag icons in the menu bar as before. · The Ice Bar no longer sits on Loading menu bar items… forever when there is nothing to load. It now says that no items were found and offers a Check Again button. · Three things are unavailable on macOS 27: the separate Ice Bar, searching for a single menu bar icon, and temporarily showing one icon. Hidden items now appear directly in the menu bar instead of in a separate bar. Those controls and hotkeys are switched off there, and the settings you saved for them are kept, so they return on macOS 26. Hiding can also take Focus and a few other system extras with it, and section visibility applies to every display at once.

A safety fix in Uninstall, inherited from the shared framework Ice 2 is built on. Menu bar management is unchanged. · Uninstall now stops if it finds more than one copy of Ice 2 on your Mac. Moving the copy you are running to the Trash was always safe, but your settings, login item and support files are stored under the app's identity rather than its location — so two copies share all of them, and there is no way to tell whose is whose. Uninstalling a spare copy could remove the settings belonging to the copy you actually use. It now stops before removing anything and lists where the copies are, so you can trash the ones you do not want and try again. If you have one copy, which is nearly everyone, nothing changes. · Updated to DragonKit 4.1.1, the shared framework behind Settings, About, What's New and software updates. The fix above comes from it; none of those panes look or behave differently.