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holzIce 0.0.2 — beta

A big feature release: 14 new features, most of them long-standing requests from the original Ice.

Note

This is a beta and has not been tested on a Mac yet. Please report anything that doesn't work on the issue tracker.

✨ New

Menu bar items

  • Layout profiles — save your layout as "Work", "Home", … and switch with one click (Settings → Menu Bar Layout) or holzice://profile/<name>.
  • Groups — put several items behind an icon of their own; click it to see and use them.
  • Spacers — up to ten empty items of adjustable width.
  • Choose where new items appear — visible, hidden or always-hidden (Settings → Advanced).

holzIce Bar

  • Use it only on the built-in display or on displays with a notch (Settings → General).
  • Shows items the notch covers, for example behind a long app menu.

Appearance

  • Black menu bar that makes the notch disappear — on notched displays or everywhere.
  • Rounded screen corners with an adjustable radius.

Automation

  • Show hidden items automatically when the battery runs low or the network drops (Settings → Advanced).
  • holzice:// URL commands and ready-made Raycast script commands (Integrations/Raycast).
  • New hotkeys: show the hidden section for a moment; turn auto-rehide on or off.

Settings

  • Export and import all settings (Settings → Advanced).
  • Sync between Macs through iCloud Drive.

Experimental

  • Keep Live Activities visible — the process that draws them isn't known yet; if they still get hidden, please attach the output of log show --last 10m --predicate 'subsystem == "com.holzcloud.holzIce"' | grep "Hidden system item" to an issue.

🔧 Changed

  • Sparkle is removed completely; holzIce updates through Homebrew. "Check for Updates…" opens the releases page.
  • "Hide application menus" is turned off on macOS 27, where macOS folds overflowing items itself.

🧪 For testers

  • macOS 27: run Scripts/macos27/reorder-probe.swift (see docs/macos27.md) to find out whether items can be reordered on the bar.

⚠️ Known issues

  • On macOS 27, items can't be reordered on the bar itself, only assigned to sections.
  • The app is signed ad hoc; after an update macOS may ask for Accessibility again — use Reset and Grant Again.

📦 Install or update

brew tap holzcloud/holzice https://github.com/holzcloud/holzIce
brew install --cask holzice      # first install
brew upgrade --cask holzice      # update

If macOS says holzIce can't be opened, take it out of quarantine and open it again:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/holzIce.app
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