Closing the panel was not enough: SimpleTopBar stayed frontmost, so
Spotlight's search field never appeared. Deactivate the app when a tray
item is selected so transient panels can take focus, and allow a little
more time before the bar re-hides.
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Selecting a tile opened the app's menu while SimpleTopBar's own panel
stayed on top of it, and could leave menus such as Spotlight stranded
behind it. Dismiss the panel first so the selected menu is unobstructed.
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Control Center items sat in the same grid as third-party app icons, which
was hard to scan. Group them so Apple's Wi-Fi, Battery, Clock and friends
are listed separately from your apps' icons.
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Sliding the icons off the screen meant bringing them all back just to
open one menu, which flickered. Draw a frosted window over the other
apps' icons instead: they keep their real positions, so tapping a tile
opens its menu in place with no reveal, and the cover leaves a gap so
the hamburger is never hidden.
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The menu is its own window anchored where the item was revealed, so it
survives if the bar re-hides immediately. Revealing for ~0.3s instead of
over a second makes the flash far less noticeable while still opening
the menu in view.
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Keeping every icon on the menu bar for as long as the panel was open
looked cluttered. Reveal them just long enough to open the clicked
item's menu, then hide again, so the panel stays clean.
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Pressing a tray tile did nothing visible because the item was hidden
off-screen, so its menu opened where it could not be seen. Temporarily
put the icons back on the menu bar while the panel is open, so clicking
a tile opens that app's real menu in view.
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Forcing every icon into a square stretched wide symbols such as the
battery into a blocky shape, making them hard to recognise. Scale to fit
instead so wide icons stay long and short.
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Every Control Center module shares one app icon, so the tray was a wall
of identical tiles. Map each item's title to its own SF Symbol so Wi-Fi,
Battery, Now Playing and friends are distinguishable at a glance.
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The point of the app is a single hamburger that replaces the tray, so
hiding the other icons should be the out-of-the-box state. Remember the
user's choice, and create the hamburger before the hider so it is not
itself pushed off-screen.
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Control Center reports every module it owns, so the tray filled with
identical tiles for items that are not actually in the menu bar. Keep
only items whose accessibility position is in the bar and de-duplicate
by title, so each tray icon appears once.
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Hiding pushed Wi-Fi off along with the third-party app icons. Tune the
spacer boundary to sit just left of Wi-Fi so apps disappear while the
Apple Wi-Fi, Spotlight, Clock, Battery and Control Center icons remain.
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Hiding other apps' icons worked, but Apple pins Spotlight, Clock, Battery
and Control Center to the right of the menu bar, so a third-party item can
never be placed after them to push them away. Document the real limit so
the behaviour is not mistaken for a bug.
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New status items land leftmost, which on a notched Mac lands under the
notch and is invisible, so the app appeared broken. Replace MenuBarExtra
with a managed status item that carries an autosave name and a persisted
preferred position, and add a diagnostic dump to verify placement.
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The Menu Bar section silently stayed empty because nothing prompted for
Accessibility permission until a button inside the panel was clicked, so
the app looked inert. Prompt once on first launch instead.
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The menu bar icon is now a hamburger whose panel gathers every other
app's status item via the Accessibility API, so tray icons no longer
need to be hunted down across the menu bar. Items can be opened from
the panel, and a best-effort toggle pushes them off the real menu bar
so they only live there.
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