Following months of playing whack-a-mole with bugs stemming from changes Apple made to the menu bar’s underlying structure in macOS Tahoe, the developers behind Bartender seem to have, at last, gotten things under control. Last January, I wrote that after running into repeated compatibility issues between macOS Tahoe 26 and Bartender, I decided to give up on the app: From random cursor hijacking and ghost clicks across the interface to reliability issues involving rearranging and hiding menu icons, from performance and memory issues to a constant reindexing of hidden and visible icons that would make the Mac’s menu bar go completely and intrusively bonkers from time to time, having Bartender 6 open meant working on a machine that would frequently behave completely uncontrollably. And to be clear, once again, it is very obvious that Applause worked as fast as it could, and is still working as hard as it can to make the app work properly, given the changes introduced on macOS Tahoe 26.…