I'm seeing a persistent issue with the Parallels Desktop menu bar icon while using Coherence Mode.
Environment
* Mac: Apple Silicon MacBook Pro
* macOS: Tahoe 26.5
* Parallels Desktop: 26.3.2
* Guest OS: Windows 11 Home 25H2
The Parallels Desktop menu bar icon appears after a full Mac restart, but later disappears. When I restart Windows inside Parallels while using Coherence Mode, the Parallels menu bar icon disappears again. This makes Coherence difficult to manage because the Parallels menu bar icon is one of the main ways to access Coherence related controls.
- The icon appears normally after a full macOS restart.
- The icon disappears again after restarting the Windows 11 VM.
- I don't have any menu bar managers / hidden menu bar utilities
- The missing icon is not simply hidden in the overflow/hidden menu bar area (notch)
- I have reinstalled Parallels Tools multiple times; did not fix the issue.
- Restarting the Mac-side Parallels Desktop UI/process brings the menu bar icon back temporarily. However, once Windows is restarted again, the same issue comes back.
- On the other hand, the Onedrive installed in the Windows side does reliably show up in the menubar; only the Parallels icon disappears.
Please investigate whether this is a Parallels Desktop 26.3.2 + macOS Tahoe 26.5 + Windows 11 Home 25H2 compatibility issue related to Coherence Mode and Mac menu bar registration.
Could the team kindly investigate? When the menu bar icon disappears, it becomes difficult to access Parallels/Coherence controls + other things reliably.
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