Installing from brew won't run due to "Hidden Bar.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

[preetmyob]

Describe the bug

I'm just reinstalling everying on my machine which has been reimaged by our company to new. I installed hiddenbar from the brew, using brew install --cask hiddenbar but I cannot open it.

Steps to reproduce

1. I have a new

Expected behaviour

The app should open

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[Etx17]

same problem here

[jwchoi-kr]

I have same issue, but I could install it with appstore

[shiroyasha9]

You can open it by following the steps below (this has to be done just once)

1. Find "Hidden Bar" in Finder -> Applications
2. Control-click the app -> Click Open
3. Now you should have an "Open" option in the dialog that appears.

Taken from here:
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac

[amarendra]

It doesn't work. I installed from Mac App Store. I have tried the CTRL + CLICK method as well. Preference Pane opens but the icon never shows up in the menu bar. Tried killing the app from Activity Monitor and starting again.

[josephyooo]

You can open it by following the steps below (this has to be done just once)

1. Find "Hidden Bar" in Finder -> Applications
2. Control-click the app -> Click Open
3. Now you should have an "Open" option in the dialog that appears.

Taken from here: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac

Works great on Sonoma 14.3 running on M3.

[LesterJitsi]

If the above workaround does not work and you trust the developer, enter in Terminal the following command:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hidden\ Bar.app

This will remove the quarantine flag that prevents launching the application. If you run Hidden Bar from a different location, just change the path (drag the application on to Terminal window after xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine and pressing the space bar). You should run the command only once.

[kirillvb]

Go to: System preferences -> Security and Privacy -> Unlock settings (icon in left bottom) -> Allow.

[amarendra]

None of these workarounds are working. (The preference window was already opening after I had tried xattr method that Lester also mentioned later). After that nothing works.

I have given up already and as of now I am not using any menu bar app. (By the way: with caveat that shortcut to toggle feature doesn't work, among all these, Dozer still worked the best).

[preetmyob]

sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hidden\ Bar.app

Has worked for me now.