MacOS – Removing an icon from Mac OS X menubar when Cmd+Drag won’t work

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I noticed this message icon show up on my menubar and I can't tell which app it belongs to. I've tried to click on the "settings" gear but it doesn't take me to anything.

The icon is a square chat icon – I would upload it but I don't have enough reputation points on this site yet to do so.

I'd like to:

  1. Figure out which app this icon belongs to
  2. Disallow the service/app from running on my system
  3. Remove it from my menubar.

How can I do this?

Best Answer

If it is opened at login, check login items in the Users & Groups preference pane, {~,}/Library/Launch{Daemons,Agents}/, or /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist.

You could also try opening Activity Monitor and quitting all processes that seem suspicious.

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