Notifications
TripMode uses several different ways of notifying about its activity.
Menu bar icon
When enabled, TripMode displays its normal, black icon in the menu bar.
If disabled, the icon will turn gray.
When TripMode is actively filtering an application by blocking its network access, its icon will turn red as long as the access attempts continue.
Sound
TripMode can optionaly use sound notifications as an alternative or in addition to the menu bar icon notifications when blocking an application: Chose from one of the system sounds or use the system’s speech synthesis to have the offending application name spoken to you. A configurable timeout allows you to only be notified once per application and per defined period so that the sounds won’t disturb you work. Learn more.
Notification Center
TripMode also notifies you through macOS’s Notification Center when it is automatically enabled or disabled.
This notification is actionnable (a button appears when the mouse pointer is hovering above the right side of the notification) so that you can revert the automatic change without opening the main window.
TripMode will also use notifications to warn you when you are about to reach a profile’s alloted traffic (if enabled) and when you reach the end of the trial.
Notification Center notifications can be turned on and off and customized using System Preference’s Notification Center pane.
Main window
Those notifications appear in TripMode’s main window under or replacing the applications list depending on their severity:
- Filter connection error: This indicates that TripMode could not connect to its filter module. See troubleshooting for solutions
- Trial expired: Only appears for unlicensed users. Your time trial has expired and you must purchase a license in order to continue using TripMode.
- Profile traffic exceeded: Only appears when using profiles and limiting the total traffic a given profile can allow. This appears when you have exceeded the allowed traffic you set up for the currently active profile. At the same time, TripMode switches to lockdown mode to prevent further data usage. If you are sure that you want to go over your settings, click the allow button to return to normal filtering. The next time the profile becomes active, this notification will reappear if the profile traffic has not deen reset.