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Menu Bar Extras
A menu bar extra exposes app-specific functionality via an icon that appears in the menu bar when your app is running, even when it’s not the frontmost app. Menu bar extras are on the opposite side of the menu bar from your app's menus. The system hides menu bar extras to make room for app menus. Similarly, if there are too many menu bar extras, the system may hide some to avoid crowding app menus.
Use a template image to represent your menu bar extra. A template image discards color information and uses a mask to produce the appearance you see onscreen. Template images automatically adapt to the user’s appearance settings, so they look good on both dark and light menu bars, and when your menu bar extra is selected.
Display a menu—not a popover—when the user clicks your menu bar extra. Unless the app functionality you want to expose is too complex for a menu, you should avoid presenting it in a popover. See Popovers.
Sep 19, 2019 Show Wi-Fi status in the menu bar. To enable the Wi-Fi icon in your Mac’s top bar, go to System Preferences and select Network. Tick the box next to “Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar.” How to replace menu bar app icons. If you want to have custom icons in your Mac’s menu bar, there’s a way to replace the default ones.
Let people decide whether to enable your menu bar extra. Users, not apps, should choose when a menu bar extra is added to the menu bar. Typically, this is done by changing a setting in an app’s preferences window. To ensure discoverability, however, consider giving people the option of enabling the menu bar extra during setup.
Don’t rely on the presence of menu bar extras. The system hides and shows menu bar extras regularly, and you can’t be sure which other menu bar extras users have chosen to display, or where your menu bar extra will be placed in the menu bar.
Consider exposing app-specific functionality in other ways too. For example, you can provide a Dock menu that appears when the user Control-clicks your app’s Dock icon. The user can hide or choose not to use your menu bar extra, but a Dock menu is aways available when your app is running. See Dock Menus.
StatusBuddy for macOS is a new app that makes it easy to quickly check the status of Apple’s various online services. If an Apple service is having problems, StatusBuddy makes it easy to quickly see the details of the issue.
Developed by 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, StatusBuddy lives in your Mac’s menu bar. When an Apple service is experiencing issues, you’ll see a red exclamation point; you can click the StatusBuddy icon to find out the specific information about the affected service, as seen in the screenshot above.
StatusBuddy includes any Apple service you could think of, ranging from developer and enterprise-specific tools such as App Store Connect and TestFlight to consumer services like Apple TV+, Apple Music, and iCloud.
Here’s how Rambo describes the app:
StatusBuddy is a simple app that shows an icon on your Mac’s menu bar. When an Apple service is having issues, the icon shows a red badge and you can click it to check what’s going on. The app will show the same issues Apple reports in their official system status dashboards for developers and consumers, so it includes both developer services such as App Store Connect and TestFlight and consumer services such as Apple Music and TV+.
Apple has its own system status webpage, but it’s missing a lot of the finer details about each specific service and is often slow to update. StatusBuddy takes things to the next level with additional details and easy access directly via your macOS menu bar.
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You can download StatusBuddy now for free, but you can “pay any amount you’d like in order to support its continued development.” StatusBuddy is also open source and you can find the details on GitHub.
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