Ice 0.11.12

What's New

• Ice can now work in a limited mode without screen recording permissions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug where Ice would think a modifier key was pressed and mistakenly prevent some users from moving items.

Ice 0.11.11

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Ice would crash on launch for some users.
• Fixed a bug preventing the menu bar search panel from appearing in full screen.

Ice 0.11.10

What's New

• Menu bar search updates.
• Added the ability to set different menu bar appearances for light and dark mode.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare case of menu bar items failing to move.

Other Changes

• Improved menu bar item caching.
• Lots of under-the-hood changes and improvements.

Ice 0.11.9

What's New

• Added a setting to show all sections when dragging items.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some minor behavior glitches with Smart rehide on Sequoia.
• Application menus now correctly hide when showing the always-hidden section.
• Fixed a bug where Ice's app icon would remain in the Dock and app switcher after unhiding application menus.
• The update interface should no longer appear behind other apps when checking for updates from Ice's menu.

Other Changes

• Reworked menu bar item retrieval and caching for better reliability.

Ice 0.11.8.1

This is a hot fix release that reverts menu bar shape rendering on screens without a notch.

Ice 0.11.8

What's New

• Minor interface changes.
• Adjusted rendering of menu bar shapes.
• Ice now dynamically adjusts its sidebar item sizes to better respect system settings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare cases of unexpected mouse movement when rehiding temporarily shown items.
• Fixed an issue where long application menus would interfere with temporarily showing items.

Ice 0.11.7

What's New

• System notifications for updates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with granting permissions.
• Fixed an issue where the app would fail to initialize after launching.
• Fixed an issue preventing the settings window from opening after launching at login.

Other Changes

• Visual adjustments and performance improvements.

Ice 0.11.6

What's New

• Added a hotkey to enable/disable the Ice Bar.
• When Command+dragging items in the menu bar, all sections are now shown when the Ice Bar is enabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with menu bar item image caching.

Other Changes

• Various minor code improvements.

Ice 0.11.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where items couldn't be dragged to empty menu bar sections.

Ice 0.11.4

What's New

• The "Default" Ice Bar location has been renamed to "Dynamic".
• Lots of under the hood improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the app would fail to properly launch.

Ice 0.11.3

What's New

• The "always hidden" section is now disabled by default for new users.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed screen capture permissions issue on macOS 15 Sequoia.
• Fixed an issue where the Ice Bar wasn't being sized properly.
• Menu bar search panel now always appears on the correct screen, regardless of the method used to show it.

Other Changes

• Code cleanup.

Ice 0.11.2

What's New

• Bug fixes and UI adjustments.
• Ice's menu bar items now treat Control+clicks as right clicks.

Ice 0.11.1

What's New

• Minor UI fixes.

Ice 0.11.0

What's New

• Brand new UI implementation.
• Search menu bar items using a custom hotkey.
• Adjust the spacing between menu bar items.
• Customize the time it takes to rehide temporarily shown menu bar items.

Bug Fixes

• When temporarily showing menu bar items, Ice no longer moves them if they are already shown.
• Fixed a timeout that can occur when moving menu bar items while running certain apps that modify system events.
• Improved compatibility with macOS 15.

Known Issues

• Applying menu bar item spacing can occasionally fail. This can be resolved by logging out.
• Ice's menu bar item does not respect spacing changes. This can be resolved by restarting Ice.

Ice 0.10.5

What's New

• Accessibility support for Ice Bar.
• Partial accessibility support for menu bar item layout (work in progress).
• Various UI updates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the occurrence of false positives in menu bar item responsiveness check.
• Temporarily shown menu bar items are now remembered if their app is restarted.
• Fixed potential undefined behavior when toggling between sections in Ice Bar.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the hidden section to toggle when clicking the Apple menu.

Other Changes

• Restored the ability to choose the location of the Ice Bar.

Ice 0.10.4

What's New

• Added the ability to set a custom delay for the "show on hover" feature.
• Improved the wording of settings and descriptions throughout the app.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a regression that caused application menus to sometimes fail to hide.
• Fixed vertical offset of menu bar items in settings when showing scroll bars.
• The notch is now taken into account when temporarily showing menu bar items.
• Ice now ignores interactions with the notch. This improves compatibility with apps that utilize notch space.
• Improved menu bar appearance reliability for apps that dynamically update their application menus.

Other Changes

• To keep the available options simple, the ability to set the location of the Ice Bar has been removed.

Ice 0.10.3

What's New

• Items shown by the Ice Bar are no longer immediately rehidden when the Ice Bar is opened again. This allows multiple items to be shown at once.
• Ice's menu bar items now use a variable length instead of fixed.
• Simplified options in settings for a more streamlined experience.

Bug Fixes

• More robust rehiding for items shown by Ice Bar.
• Improved consistency of the "Focused app" rehide strategy when clicking on inactive displays.
• Work around clipped menu items when using the "Split" appearance on multi-display setups.
• Extended delay in event tap callback to help prevent occasional item movement timeouts.

Ice 0.10.2

What's New

• Improved the logic for retrieving menu bar items.
• Menu bar item images no longer update if the app isn't focused, leading to increased efficiency and the purple screen capture icon appearing less often.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that would occur when the Ice Bar was longer than the width of the screen.
• Fixed a visual glitch where menu bar items wouldn't initially show in the "Menu Bar Items" settings.
• Fixed faulty menu bar item image caching.
• Fixed a bug that caused the visible section's arranging interface to disappear in "Menu Bar Items" settings when the Ice icon was disabled.
• Adjusted the menu bar split appearance shape to have even padding on both sides when using the inset appearance on screens with a notch.

Ice 0.10.1

This is a hot fix release for a bug that was introduced in 0.10.0 that could prevent one or more sections from hiding.

Ice 0.10.0

What's New

• Menu bar items can now be shown in a secondary bar below the menu bar! (look for "Use Ice Bar" in the "General" settings pane).
• Added ability to move menu bar items individually in a new "Menu Bar Items" settings pane.
• Menu bar appearance can now be inset on screens with a notch.
• Ice now ensures that the always-hidden section stays to the left of the hidden section.
• Added the ability to disable the always-hidden section.
• Ice now launches in the background by default.
• Ice now uses the GPL-3.0 license.

Bug Fixes

• The menu bar appearance overlay should now work with fullscreen in apps that don't use the default macOS fullscreen interface, such as VLC and Keynote.
• Reliably check for default macOS fullscreen spaces.
• Fixed mouse location checks in fullscreen and when using multiple displays.
• The menu bar appearance now renders at the correct size across multiple displays with different sized menu bars (i.e. when one display has a notch and the other does not).
• Fixed screen flicker when playing DRM media.
• Improved reliability of application menu hiding.
• Fixed excessive CPU usage by menu bar overlay panel when switching apps.

Ice 0.9.0

What's New

• Slight UI redesign.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar items not hiding on secondary screens when the "show section dividers" feature is disabled.
• Fixed menu bar appearance not applying across multiple displays.
• Menu bar appearance now updates more reliably when the focused application changes.
• Fixed mouse cursor detection not working across multiple displays. Features like "show on hover" and "show on click" should now behave correctly on external displays.
• Fixed an occasional bug where hotkeys weren't deleting.

Other Changes

• Optimizations.
• Menu bar appearance only updates the components that need it.
• Slight menu bar appearance design refresh.
• You can now change the opacity of the menu bar border.

Ice 0.8.0

What's New

• Hotkeys have been reimplemented to support new actions.
• UI improvements.
• Performance optimizations.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some rare issues with custom menu bar appearances.

Ice 0.7.1

What's New

• Minor efficiency improvements.
• UI tweaks.
• Code cleanup.
• Internal reorganization.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented Ice from seeing all menu bar items. This was affecting the "hide application menus" feature and the "menu bar appearance" features.

Ice 0.7.0

What's New

• The "always hidden" section is now always enabled.
• The divider icons between sections can now be hidden.
• The Ice icon can now be hidden. To show Ice's settings, right-click on an empty space in the menu bar.
• Scroll or two finger swipe in the menu bar to toggle hidden items.
• Perform a secondary action by clicking one of Ice's menu bar items with a modifier key.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed occasional visual glitching when adjusting the menu bar appearance.
• Ice now hides application menus more reliably when showing menu bar items.

Ice 0.6.3

What's New

• Minor user experience improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed menu bar appearance not updating in certain cases.

Ice 0.6.2

What's New

• When show-on-click is enabled, you can now click inside an empty area of the menu bar while the "Hidden" section is visible to show the "Always hidden" section as well.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a visual glitch that would appear when using the split menu bar while the "Always hidden" section was disabled.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the app to quit immediately after launch on some machines.
• The "HideApplicationMenus" setting is now properly retained after quitting the app.

Ice 0.6.1

Bug Fixes

• DRM media no longer flickers when Ice is open.
• Fixed a visual glitch that caused split menu bar shapes to sometimes disappear.

Other Changes

• Minor UI tweaks.

Ice 0.6.0

New Features

• Support for Homebrew.
• Auto-rehide now has 3 different modes:
  • Smart – rehides items using a smart algorithm.
  • Timed – rehides items after a fixed amount of time.
  • Focused app – rehides items when the focused app changes.
• Click an empty space in the menu bar to show hidden items.
• Hide the left application menus when showing hidden items.
• Command-dragging in the menu bar now shows all sections.

Ice 0.5.0

New Features

• You can now right-click an empty space in the menu bar to edit its appearance.

Bug Fixes

• Menu bar appearance customizations should now appear across multiple screens.
• Auto show/hide now only applies when the mouse is on the focused screen.

Ice 0.4.3

This release fixes some bugs with custom menu bar appearances.

Ice 0.4.2

This release fixes a few minor bugs.

Ice 0.4.1

This release includes various improvements and minor bug fixes.

Ice 0.4.0

This release adds the ability to automatically rehide menu bar items with a click outside the menu bar.

There are also a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ice 0.3.1

This release includes lots of minor fixes to improve the overall user experience.

Ice 0.3.0

This release adds the ability to automatically check for updates directly within the app. Recommended for all users.

Ice 0.2.7

This is a minor release. Next release will include some big improvements!

Ice 0.2.6

This release includes minor improvements and code cleanup.

Ice 0.2.5

This release includes minor UI updates.

Ice 0.2.4

This release includes bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ice 0.2.3

This release improves the permissions interface for a better onboarding experience.

Ice 0.2.2

This release fixes an issue that causes excessive memory usage when the screen is locked or the screen saver is active.

Ice 0.2.1

Fixed a small visual bug.

Ice 0.2.0

This release adds the ability to customize the shape of your menu bar. Choose between full-length or split, with options for rounded or squared ends.

Ice 0.0.3

This release includes minor UI improvements and bug fixes.

Ice 0.0.2

This release adds the ability to show hidden items when the mouse is inside the menu bar.

Ice 0.0.1

Initial release of Ice.