holzIce v0.0.5

holzIce 0.0.5 — beta

🛠 Fixed

• "Loading menu bar items…" forever on macOS 26 in the layout settings and the holzIce Bar. On macOS 26 every menu bar item belongs to Control Center, and holzIce asks a helper service which app is behind each one. On macOS 26.7.1 the helper could not be started at all, so holzIce did not even recognise its own section dividers and showed nothing. holzIce now recognises its own items directly, and when the helper fails it does the same lookup itself.
• The first launch could lock up the Mac on macOS 27 — the pointer still moved, but no click or key got through until a restart. It happened only once, on the launch that imported the settings of the original Ice. holzIce no longer imports Ice's window frames and menu bar item positions, which belong to Ice's own windows and items.
• holzIce no longer runs alongside another menu bar manager. When it finds Ice, Bartender, Hidden Bar or Thaw running, it offers to quit them before it continues — two managers fight over the same items.

⚠️ 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

Quit the original Ice first if it is running.

brew tap holzcloud/holzice https://github.com/holzcloud/holzIce
brew trust --cask holzcloud/holzice/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

If the Mac ever stops responding while holzIce runs, wait about ten seconds; if the keyboard still works, press ⌘ Option Esc, select holzIce and click Force Quit. Please report it on the issue tracker.