Notchy isn't showing on my screen — what do I do?
Work down this list: make sure Notchy is running (open it from Applications), press ⌥Space in case it was hidden, and check Settings → Behavior → Visibility — “Show On”, “Hide in Full Screen”, “Invisible Until Hover” and “Hide if Menus Overlap” can all keep it out of sight.
Step by step
- Open Notchy from Applications. If it's already running, this does nothing harmful.
- Press ⌥Space (Hide Notchy) — it toggles visibility.
- Leave any full-screen app; Notchy hides there by default.
- Right-click where the pill should be. If a menu appears, open Settings → Behavior → Visibility and check “Show On”, “Invisible Until Hover” and “Hide if Menus Overlap”.
- Still nothing? Quit with ⌃⌥⌘⎋ and open Notchy again.
Good to know
Notchy checks every few seconds that its window survived display, login and Space changes and rebuilds it if not, so a missing pill after plugging in a monitor usually fixes itself.
If you're on 1.0.202, update — 1.0.203 fixed a launch crash in that version. See updating Notchy.
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