Getting started

Once Overflow is installed and its permissions are granted, using it day to day comes down to one gesture: open the panel, click a tile.

Find the Overflow icon

Overflow places a small icon at the right end of your menu bar. It stays anchored there — it's never one of the items that can get hidden.

Open the panel

Click the Overflow icon in the menu bar.
Or press the global hotkey, Control + Option + M, from anywhere.

The panel drops down showing every menu bar icon currently hidden by the notch or pushed into menu bar overflow — apps that are still running, just unreachable through the system menu bar itself.

Click a hidden icon

Clicking a tile in the panel does one of two things, depending on how that app built its menu bar item:

Menu-based apps — the item's real menu opens right at the tile you clicked, mirrored natively.
Popover-based apps — the app's own popover or window opens instead, since Overflow can't mirror a custom popover the way it mirrors a real menu.

Keep working

The panel stays open while you work with a menu or popover, so you can act on more than one hidden item in a row without reopening it each time.

Close the panel

Close it any of three ways:

Click the ✕ button in the panel.
Press Escape.
Click anywhere outside the panel.

For the full interaction reference — right-click behavior, keyboard navigation, and what the orange flash means — see The panel.