--- title: mysides-swift, a CLI app for managing Finder sidebar... description: mysides-swift is a new Swift-based CLI tool that ports the original mysides binary to manage macOS Finder sidebar favorites. The original tool broke when Apple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mysides-swift-a-cli-app-for-managing-finder-sidebar-favorites-i5mklnllf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: mysides-swift, a CLI app for managing Finder sidebar favorites | daily.dev og:description: mysides-swift is a new Swift-based CLI tool that ports the original mysides binary to manage macOS Finder sidebar favorites. The original tool broke when Apple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mysides-swift-a-cli-app-for-managing-finder-sidebar-favorites-i5mklnllf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I5mKLnllf.png og:image:alt: mysides-swift, a CLI app for managing Finder sidebar favorites og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # mysides-swift, a CLI app for managing Finder sidebar favorites **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary mysides-swift is a new Swift-based CLI tool that ports the original mysides binary to manage macOS Finder sidebar favorites. The original tool broke when Apple deprecated the LSSharedFileList API, but that API has started working again in macOS 26.1. The new binary is signed and notarized, and supports listing, adding, inserting, and removing sidebar items via simple commands — useful for automating device enrollment workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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