The panel closes again
A Mac hotfix for macOS 27: the forecast panel you open from the menu bar closes again with Escape, a click outside it, or a click on its icon, and right-click and drag-to-detach work the way they did before.
A way back outMac
macOS 27 changed how a menu bar app owns its window, and 11.6.1 adopted the new way without keeping the old exits. Open the forecast panel from the menu bar icon and it stayed open: Escape did nothing, clicking outside it did nothing, switching to another app did nothing, and clicking the icon again did nothing. Right-click was the only thing that still closed it, which is not a route anybody would think to try.
11.6.2 gives every one of them back. Escape closes the panel, a click anywhere outside it closes the panel, moving to another app closes the panel, and clicking the menu bar icon a second time closes the panel. Right-click and dragging the panel off to float it as a window work again too, both of which turned out to be broken by the same platform change.
Everything else in this update is what 11.6.1 already brought to the Mac. If you are on macOS 27, this is the version to be on.
Plus 10 smaller changes — fixes, tidy-ups and one-line wins that didn't need a paragraph. See every line →
Everything in this release
- Fixed on macOS 27: the forecast panel closes again with Escape, a click outside it or a click on its menu bar icon, and right-click and drag-to-detach work again
- Ready for macOS 27, including its menu bar overflow and keyboard controls
- Radar: one Overlays button for warnings, lightning, storm cells, cameras and road layers
- Pro: road conditions, weather hazards, and road and air temperatures on the radar
- Pro: storm reports, river gauges and fire perimeters
- Pro: road camera video or snapshots in AL, AZ, CA, DE, GA, LA, MD, MO, NC, NV, OH and WA
- Widgets: new extra large Current Weather
- Compare can add a temporary city without saving it
- Sky events and earthquakes link to viewing guides, live maps and community reports
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations
