Well, sometimes there is an intentional obscuring of “unsigned” apps (like Stats). Before Tahoe MacOS 26, you could just right-click and choose to open anyway. But now it’s a pretty unintuitive thing, you have to fail trying to run it and then go to System Settings and click a button:
- Click on an “unsigned app”, you will get a scary message about “not being able to validate and it fails running it.
- Now here’s the hard part: this sets up a magical silent button in System Settings > Privacy and Security, and scroll all the way down to the bottom
- You will get an “open anywhere” button for the application in question, and then you will be asked to type your password or use TouchID to allow it.
Reset the party menubar application is also confusing
With MacOS 26, you can easily drag off an icon from the menubar, but how do you get it back? You need to:
- Go to
System Settings > Menu Bar - Then, for system applications, There are switches to turn them on and off and reset them
- Scroll way down to the bottom and there are all the third-party applications with menubar items so enable them there.
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