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# How to quickly manage macOS system settings
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-quickly-manage-macos-system-settings/
- Published: 2022-02-23T10:14:53.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-23T10:14:53.000Z
- Description: Utilities like OnlySwitch that add the ability to control system settings right from the tray. Here's how it works.
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: macos, OnlySwitch

Every time I want to change some system parameter, I am overcome by laziness on a universal scale. Indeed, often to change some simple parameter you have to go through a whole series of windows and buttons.

Fortunately, there are utilities like **[OnlySwitch](https://jacklandrin.github.io/macos%20app/2021/12/01/onlyswitch.html)** that add the ability to control system settings right from the tray. Here's how it works.

Immediately after installing the application, clicking on its icon opens a pop-up menu with a set of quick actions. By pressing the switch, you can easily change one or another system setting.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2022/02/image-100.png)

By default, you can hide desktop icons, control the dark theme and night mode, turn off the sound, prevent sleep, turn off the screensaver and Bluetooth, set the auto-hide of the dock and menu bar, show hidden files and turn on the radio.

If these actions are not enough, there are additional ones in the OnlySwitch settings:

- clearing the clipboard;
- displaying the user's folder;
- file extension display;
- Pomodoro timer;
- reduce the icons in Launchpad;
- change the power saving mode;
- turn off the microphone;
- show full path in Pathfinder;
- display recent apps.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2022/02/image-101.png)

At the same time, the capabilities of OnlySwitch are not limited to this; in the **Commands** section, you can add commands from the set of application users or create your own.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2022/02/image-102.png)

[Download OnlySwitch](https://jacklandrin.github.io/macos%20app/2021/12/01/onlyswitch.html)