Notifications

TripMode uses several different ways of notifying about its activity.

Icon, active When enabled, TripMode displays its normal, black icon in the menu bar.

Icon, inactive If disabled, the icon will turn gray.

Icon, access 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.

Notification, enabled

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.

Notification, enabled, actionnable

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:

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Receive or disable notifications