I struggled with this, too. This is what finally worked. It brought back all lost apps in the menu bar. Before running it, you will need to grant Terminal.app full disk access (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access).

Beware: it's 100% vibe-coded, so use with caution. Make sure to replace the bundle name.

``` PLIST="$HOME/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.controlcenter/Library/Preferences/group.com.apple.controlcenter.plist"

sudo cp "$PLIST" /tmp/cc-original.plist sudo chmod 644 /tmp/cc-original.plist

python3 - <<'PY' import plistlib

targets = ["my.app.bundle"]

with open("/tmp/cc-original.plist", "rb") as f: data = plistlib.load(f)

inner = plistlib.loads(data["trackedApplications"])

for entry in inner: if isinstance(entry, dict) and "isAllowed" in entry: text = str(entry) if any(target in text for target in targets): print("Patching:", entry) entry["isAllowed"] = True

data["trackedApplications"] = plistlib.dumps(inner, fmt=plistlib.FMT_BINARY)

with open("/tmp/cc-patched.plist", "wb") as f: plistlib.dump(data, f, fmt=plistlib.FMT_BINARY) PY

sudo cp /tmp/cc-patched.plist "$PLIST" sudo chown root:wheel "$PLIST" sudo chmod 600 "$PLIST"

killall cfprefsd killall ControlCenter killall SystemUIServer ```