How to identify a strange item on my menubar?
After rebooting recently, I noticed a new, unknown icon showing up in my menubar (I'm on Mac OS 10.15.7). Right clicking / double tapping on it does nothing. When I open Activity Monitor, I see icons next to processes but none matches it.
Any idea what process or application this is, or how I can identify it?
- Open Accessibility Inspector, accessible from Xcode → Open Developer Tool.
- Under ‘Hierarchy’, click ‘Show’ which will show you the Application Name.
- Click on the target icon at the top of the inspector labelled ‘Start inspection follows point’.
- Hover over the item and the pane may show you enough information for you to determine what it is. For example, hovering the Dropbox menu bar item shows "Dropbox <version>" under AXHelp, and hovering Little Snitch shows "Little Snitch Agent" under AXTitle.