Pomodoro shortcut appearing in menu bar automatically?

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Pomodoro shortcut appearing in menu bar automatically?

Hello. I feel like I might be losing my mind, but I'm also a little OCD and want to get to the bottom of this. I noticed a shortcut to start the Pomodoro timer in my menu bar after updating to the latest version of Sonoma today, 12/4/2024. I don't think it was there before, because I don't think I went through the steps to add it manually.

Has anyone else noticed something like this? Am I crazy?? It's been driving me nuts. Could it be automatic or due to syncing with my phone? I feel pretty silly and I suppose it's possible I did it but I really don't think so.

MacBook Air, macOS 14.7

Posted on Dec 4, 2024 6:26 PM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 5, 2024 3:51 AM in response to Crumurd157

What are you calling the Pomodoro shortcut? The only thing I don’t recognize in your screenshot is an icon of an ear.

when you install an app, it can put things all over the place, especially if you enter your admin password when installing.

You do have the Shortcuts menu item in the status menu area. That means one or more of your shortcuts are set to be available in the finder. I suppose an app could install a shortcut and enable display in the finder.

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dialabrain

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Dec 6, 2024 1:18 AM in response to Crumurd157

Did you look under "Menu Bar" in Shortcuts to see if there is anything listed?

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Crumurd157 Author

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Dec 5, 2024 10:37 PM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks for your reply. I realize my language was unclear. I'm attaching another screenshot for illustration. The ear icon is an accessibility option to play background noise that I set up. I just don't recall setting any shortcuts to be available in the finder, and I didn't install any other apps. Pomodoro is one of the shortcuts built into the Shortcuts app, but I don't use it and I don't remember seeing the Shortcut app icon in the status menu area there before. So I'm just curious because I like to know how things work and am a little neurotic. I recently programmed a handful of new shortcuts into my phone, but they weren't Pomodoro, so I don't know why that one would show up.

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Jan 17, 2025 2:06 PM in response to cwestergren

Replying to my own post. It's a shortcut that is predefined in newer versions of MacOS. You can remove it in the Shortcuts app.

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Dec 6, 2024 3:29 AM in response to Crumurd157

If you can open this shortcut in the Shortcuts application, you can UNcheck the "Pin in Menu Bar" option in the Info pane:

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Barney-15E

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Dec 6, 2024 1:09 AM in response to Crumurd157

I don’t know if it is possible, but I can certainly see how an app could create a shortcut and add it to the Shortcuts menu. You should contact the app developer.

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Crumurd157 Author

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Dec 6, 2024 10:07 AM in response to dialabrain

Yes, it’s pinned to the menu bar, I’m just wondering how that happened because I’m 99% sure I didn’t do it.

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Dec 6, 2024 10:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks. I don’t mind that it’s there, I’m just wondering how it got there because it wasn’t there before the software update, but it doesn’t appear to be a feature of the software update.

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Jan 17, 2025 12:28 AM in response to Crumurd157

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same after the update and i cannot find any additional details...

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Crumurd157 Author

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Jan 18, 2025 8:56 AM in response to cwestergren

Oh thanks, I appreciate you following up with this!

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