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Bartender for Mac

Bartender 3.1.7

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Bartender 3.1.7.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Bartender for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


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What's new in this version:

New Features / Improvements:
Notification Center can now be hidden:
- Its been a long time coming, and now Notification Center can now be set to "Always Hide" or "Always Show"

macOS 10.15 Catalina Support:
- This release fully supports macOS Catalina and will now ask the user for the new "Screen Recording" permission required for Bartender to work
- It needs this permission so that it can get information about your menu bar items, and capture images of the menu bar and menu bar items, it does this for 4 reasons, to know which menu items you have, to make “show for updates” work, to display the menu items in preferences, and to create a smooth transition when switching states
- Bartender does not record your screen, and does not save or transmit these images

Bug Fixes:
Fix for not adding to Screen Recording Permissions in System Preferences:
- If the user clicked to open system preferences, Bartender may not be listed in Screen Recording, this has been fixed

Rare crash fix:
- We receive occasional crash reports of a crash we have not seen here, we believe this build fixes the crash

Crashing when macOS does not apply Accessibility Permission Correctly:
- There is a bug in macOS that can cause Accessibility permissions to fail for an app, even though it has been setup correctly and is reported as such. Bartender now tries to detect this and help the user fix the issue by toggling the permission

Item position being lost:
- There is a another bug in macOS that can cause menu items to appear overlapped and loose their order, Bartender has always tried to detect this and recover the positioning (but not the order), some users are experiencing the order of their items being lost, Changes have been made to try and prevent this

UI layout issues on Permissions Screens:
- The permissions screens had layout issues in macOS version older than 10.15, this has been fixed

Hiding left menu not activating:
- Some users have experienced issues with the left menu not being hidden when needed, work has been done to fix this

Some UI elements not correct colour in dark mode:
- These should now all work correctly in Dark mode

Apps without Display Name would be not be displayed correctly:
- Apps that do not have a display name could end up without a name in Bartender Preferences, this has now been fixed