SwarmBar 0.1.1

Three fixes, all of them things that were failing quietly.

The app had no icon

No CFBundleIconFile, no .icns. Every context that wanted an icon drew a blank square: notifications, System Settings, Force Quit. Being a menu bar app with no Dock tile hid it.

Notifications never worked

macOS was refusing authorization on every attempt, and the error was being discarded, so all three switches in Settings could sit on while every alert was dropped. Authorization is now requested at launch rather than at the arbitrary moment an agent first needs you, and a refusal is reported instead of thrown away.

Settings could not tell you any of that

If macOS is blocking notifications, the popover now says so, with a button to the right settings page. It appears only when at least one notify switch is on, since nothing is broken if you have turned them all off, and it can be dismissed.

Install

Download SwarmBar-0.1.1.dmg, drag SwarmBar to /Applications, launch it. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so there is no Gatekeeper warning. Look for the hexagon in the menu bar.

Requires macOS 26 or later. iTerm2 is needed to answer prompts and send replies without leaving the menu bar; elsewhere Approve and Deny focus the terminal instead.