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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:23:26+00:00

Ok I have a status menu application with a Hide menu item in it.

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Ok I have a status menu application with a “Hide” menu item in it.

Clicking on “Hide” calls:

[[NSStatusBar systemStatusBar] removeStatusItem:statusItem]

which of course removes my application from the status bar even though it is still running.

I want my application to be re-added into the system status bar when the user “opens” my application in the Applications folder. The problem is I can’t insert the piece of code to do this inside “ApplicationDidFinishLaunching” since the application is already open. So what should I do?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use -applicationDidBecomeActive:, though you need to distinguish between the cases where the application becomes active after it was hidden, and it became active after the user switched to a different app without hiding yours.

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