Can't Programmatically Open Mac Menu Bar NSPopover View

Question

I’m working on a Mac menu bar application and have this working code that opens/closes the window when toggling the menu bar app icon

@objc func togglePopover(_ sender: AnyObject?) {
    if let button = statusBarItem.button {
      if popover.isShown {
        popover.performClose(sender)
      } else {
        popover.show(relativeTo: button.bounds, of: button, preferredEdge: NSRectEdge.minY)
      }
    }
  }

I’m trying to add this function that will programmatically open the window after the user has logged in (which occurs via a web view)

func openPopover() {
    if let button = statusBarItem.button {
      if !popover.isShown {
        popover.show(relativeTo: button.bounds, of: button, preferredEdge: NSRectEdge.minY)
      }
    }
  }

The popopver.show code gets executed, but, the popover never appears. Can’t see that I’m doing any obviously wrong things here. Anyone have any insight?