For some reason the little menu bar icon appears to be stuck on white, though my other icons are black (attached a screenshot). Anyone have a quick fix to update the icon asset files or something?
There is indeed a black variation of that icon, and macOS is supposed to notify me when you change from light and dark modes (and then I switch out the icon).
I’ll add more debug logging to that section of code and push out a new desktop build so I can see what’s going on with your machine.
(What version of macOS are you using, and are you on “auto” or always “light” mode?)
I’m actually in ‘always’ Dark mode, though it’s funny if I switch to Light or Auto mode the icon gets closer to matching everything else:
Hi @structural_ken,
Thanks so much for flagging this, and sorry for the long silence on the thread.
You were right that the tray icon wasn’t playing nicely with macOS. The root cause was a bit sneakier than a simple light/dark mix-up: PhotoStructure was picking between a black and a white cloud based on nativeTheme.shouldUseDarkColors, which reflects the system appearance setting. On modern macOS the menu bar is translucent and tints itself from your wallpaper, so “Always Dark” with a lighter wallpaper can leave the menu bar rendering light — and the white icon vanished against it. That matches exactly what you described.
The fix is the canonical macOS approach (TIL!): ship a single template image (a monochrome PNG whose shape lives in the alpha channel) and let macOS tint it to whatever the menu bar actually looks like at render time. No more guessing from the system theme, and it’ll Just Work™ in Light, Dark, Auto, and the awkward wallpaper-driven edge cases.
This will be in the next v2026.4 desktop build. When it lands, I’d love it if you could confirm the icon looks right on your setup — particularly in the Always Dark configuration that was giving you trouble.
Thanks again for the detailed report!
