[Bug]: Menu Bar Item Stuck After Ice Bar Click When Live Activities are Active

[nullsin]

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Description

Dear Dev,

Issue:
If the menu bar contains Live Activities synchronized from an iPhone, clicking the icon within Ice Bar will move the item from the Hidden section to the Visible section permanently. The item then becomes "stuck" in the visible section and does not automatically re-hide to the Ice Bar.

Expected Behaviour:
When Live Activities is present, item clicked to be shown from the Ice Bar's hidden section, it should respect the automatic hiding mechanism and automatically hide back into Ice Bar.

Steps to Reproduce

1. when Live Activities is present
2. click any icon within Ice Bar
3. this icon will not re-hide to Ice Bar when time is up

App Version

0.11.13-dev.2

macOS Version

macOS 26.1 (25B5042k)

Additional Information

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[todddube]

I've experienced this as well - I quit icebar and then relaunch all works after that. so +1

[itzhaclea]

Since the Live Activities cannot be moved by the user via mouse-dragging, ICE likely needs to add the Live Activities to the immovableItems list in MenuBarItemTag.swift and make sure hiddenControlItemBounds is on the left side of Live Activities.

    /// An array of tags for items whose movement is prevented by macOS.
    ///
    /// These items have fixed positions at the trailing end of the menu bar,
    /// and cannot be hidden.
    ///
    /// In macOS 26, this list contains the "Clock" and "Control Center" items.
    /// In earlier releases, it also contained the "Siri" item.
    static let immovableItems: [MenuBarItemTag] = {
        var items = [clock, controlCenter]
        if #unavailable(macOS 26.0) {
            items.append(siri)
        }
        return items
    }()