NotchIsland 1.2.0

Added

• Updates from inside the app. Settings ▸ Updates asks GitHub Releases for the latest version (once a day while Check for updates is on, or with Check Now), shows what's new, and Update Now downloads the DMG, checks that the app inside is signed with the same certificate as the running copy, swaps it into place and relaunches. Every permission grant carries over, and Gatekeeper's "could not verify" dialog does not appear because nothing goes through a browser. A new version is announced once in the island (tap the HUD for the notes), as a line in the hover readout, as an Update button in the shade and as Update to x.y.z… in the menu bar; Skip silences one version. A copy that cannot be replaced (folder not writable) gets the DMG opened in Finder instead; a source or ad-hoc build only links to the release page.
• Settings ▸ General ▸ Theme: Shadow under the open island switch.

Changed

• The island's shadow is a window's now: soft and mostly below the surface, instead of the dark halo that bled some 25 px into the menu bar on either side of the open island. The notch and its ears cast none.
• The update check is the app's only network request and sends nothing about you or your Mac. README and website say so instead of "no network".

Install

1. Download NotchIsland.dmg below and drag NotchIsland into Applications (replace the old one). This is the last time: from 1.2.0 on, Settings ▸ Updates installs new versions in place.
2. macOS says "Apple could not verify NotchIsland is free of malware": the app is not notarized (no paid Developer ID). To open it anyway:
   • macOS 15 and later: click Done, then System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ scroll to "NotchIsland was blocked" ▸ Open Anyway ▸ Open.
   • macOS 13 / 14: right-click NotchIsland in Applications ▸ Open ▸ Open.
   • Or in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/NotchIsland.app
3. Updating from 1.0.1, 1.1.0 or 1.1.1: same signing certificate, so every grant carries over. Updating from 1.0.0: on first launch NotchIsland clears the stale grants and asks for Accessibility again; add it under Full Disk Access for notifications, then relaunch.