Turn on Hide Desktop Icons, and the icons disappear right away, which is handy for taking screenshots that include the Desktop. Most of the switches, especially the default ones, just work instantly. Additional switches let you toggle iTunes music playback, show hidden files in the Finder, put the display to sleep, change screen resolution, “clean” the screen, lock the keyboard, and lock the screen. Click the gear icon in the lower-right corner to pick your favorites. You can change the switches One Switch shows. I don’t use all of these controls every day, but having them all in one place where I don’t have to hunt for them saves time and removes friction. Keep Awake: Enter the command caffeinate in Terminal.Dark Mode: System Preferences > General > Dark.Hide Desktop Icons: Enter a whole series of commands in Terminal.Here’s what you’d normally have to do or where you’d go to trigger just a few of them: But these settings are scattered around macOS. For instance, being able to turn off Desktop icons is handy for screenshots, and while I like Night Shift in the evening hours, I need to be able to turn it off quickly when doing graphical work. It was everything I had hoped for.īy default, One Switch offers switches to hide or show Desktop icons, switch between Light mode and Dark mode, keep your Mac awake, turn on the screen saver, connect AirPods, and toggle Do Not Disturb, Night Shift, and True Tone. We’ve seen many narrowly focused menu bar apps that turn features on or off, like Amphetamine to keep your Mac awake, but One Switch promised to do so much more that I installed it immediately. I’ve replaced the True Tone toggle with Lock Screen since my 27-inch iMac doesn’t support True Tone. For convenience, set the app to show custom toggles in your menu bar and disable those you don’t use regularly. A time-saver for Mac, the app allows to access the key switchers like toggling between Dark/Light modes and managing AirPods connection. Replace numerous apps and settings with One Switch. I recently spotted an app called One Switch in Setapp with this humble description: Over the past eight years of writing for TidBITS (wow, that long?), I’ve never tried an app and immediately thought, “Everyone needs to be using this!” Until now.
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