Switchboard

One app for 400+ Mac settings, ready for AI

Mac · macOS Tahoe 26 Works with Claude Used every day in-house

Change any Mac setting directly, without ever opening System Settings, by hand or by asking your AI.

Switchboard is a native Mac app with a cleaner layout than Apple’s own settings app, where every setting appears exactly once. It applies changes directly through macOS itself, and a simple command line lets AI assistants like Claude read and change any setting for you.

400+

settings on 19 pages, grouped into Look & Feel, Files, Input, Hardware and System. No setting is repeated across pages, and an automated audit makes sure it stays that way.

Switchboard's Dock and Hot Corners page — Dock & Hot Corners: sliders, segmented controls and switches, each showing the Mac’s real current value

Find and change anythingInstant search, live values, and a menu bar panel

Instant search, live values, and a menu bar panel

Searching for a setting — One search box finds any setting on any page

Appearance page — Appearance: theme, accent color, folder color, scroll bars

Displays page — Displays: resolution, color profiles and Night Shift

Accessibility page — Accessibility: about 130 of macOS’s roughly 140 options

Live values

Every control shows the Mac’s real current value and refreshes when you come back to the app

Menu bar quick panel

Toggle common settings straight from a menu bar icon

Per-app notifications

Alerts, badges, sounds, Lock Screen, previews and grouping for each app

All 19 pagesFrom the Dock to the firewall, every setting once

From the Dock to the firewall, every setting once

Appearance 9Menu Bar 17Windows & Spaces 23Dock & Hot Corners 16Clock & Region 15 Finder 24Screenshots 5Apps & Documents 11 Keyboard & Typing 14Trackpad & Mouse 27Shortcuts 50 Displays 11Sound 10Power & Screen Saver 12Network & Bluetooth 5 Notifications 15Computer, Login & Updates 22Accessibility 115Permissions 17

Includes things System Settings hides or makes hard to reach, like “Don’t create .DS_Store files on network drives,” Dock show delay, Hot Corners, Night Shift color temperature, and per-display color profiles.

Command line & AIScripts and AI assistants can change any setting and read it back

Scripts and AI assistants can change any setting and read it back

$ switchboard list dock
$ switchboard get "Automatically hide and show the Dock"
Dock & Hot Corners › Behavior › Automatically hide and show the Dock = on
$ switchboard set "Night Shift" on

Built for Claude

Ask Claude to “hide the Dock” or “turn on Night Shift” and it changes the setting through Switchboard, then checks the result

No clicking around

The AI never drives System Settings with mouse clicks; it uses the same direct, safe path as the app

Direct, and safeA locked-down helper for admin-level settings

A locked-down helper for admin-level settings

Direct control

Settings go through macOS preferences, system frameworks and a small privileged helper; Switchboard never opens or clicks through System Settings

Privileged helper

Installed once with your password, for power and sleep, computer name, time zone, login window, software updates, startup sound, firewall, remote login and screen sharing
Accepts only callers signed by the same developer, and runs only a fixed list of operations