diff --git a/src/plugins/backends/osxnotificationcenter/osxnotificationcenter.mm b/src/plugins/backends/osxnotificationcenter/osxnotificationcenter.mm
index cacf171..5a949c2 100644
--- a/src/plugins/backends/osxnotificationcenter/osxnotificationcenter.mm
+++ b/src/plugins/backends/osxnotificationcenter/osxnotificationcenter.mm
@@ -14,19 +14,6 @@ using namespace Snore;
 // store some variables that are needed (since obj-c++ does not allow having obj-c classes as c++ members)
 namespace {
     NSUserNotificationCenter *notification_center;
-    NSString *appID = @"dummyID.snorenotify";
-
-    // make sure __bundleIdentifier is called on every NSBundle object instead of bundleIdentifier
-    // see http://stackoverflow.com/a/14698543
-    bool installNSBundleHook() {
-        Class cls = objc_getClass("NSBundle");
-        if (cls) {
-            method_exchangeImplementations(class_getInstanceMethod(cls, @selector(bundleIdentifier)),
-                                           class_getInstanceMethod(cls, @selector(__bundleIdentifier)));
-            return true;
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
 
     NSString *NSStringFromQString(QString qstr) {
         return [NSString stringWithUTF8String: qstr.toUtf8().data()];
@@ -52,7 +39,6 @@ OSXNotificationCenter::~OSXNotificationCenter()
 
 bool OSXNotificationCenter::initialize(SnoreCore *snore)
 {
-    installNSBundleHook();
     notification_center = [NSUserNotificationCenter defaultUserNotificationCenter];
 
     return SnoreBackend::initialize(snore);
@@ -60,12 +46,6 @@ bool OSXNotificationCenter::initialize(SnoreCore *snore)
 
 void OSXNotificationCenter::slotNotify(Snore::Notification notification)
 {
-    QString qAppID = QString("%1.%2").arg(qApp->organizationName(), qApp->applicationName()).remove(" ");
-    appID = NSStringFromQString(qAppID);
-
-    snoreDebug(SNORE_DEBUG) << "bundle identifier for notification:" << [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier] UTF8String];
-
-
     NSUserNotification *osx_notification = [[NSUserNotification alloc] init];
     osx_notification.title = NSStringFromQString(Snore::toPlainText(notification.title()));
     osx_notification.informativeText = NSStringFromQString(Snore::toPlainText(notification.text()));