Get One Switch 1.35.4 for Mac

When you're adjusting your screen for late-night reading or scrambling to hide a messy desktop before a screen share, digging through System Settings breaks your stride. One Switch is for anyone who wants those everyday Mac toggles gathered into a single menu bar panel. Instead of hunting for Dark Mode in one place and Do Not Disturb in another, you pull down a compact list of switches and flick the one you need.

One download for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs

Compatibility is straightforward. One Switch requires macOS 10.15 or newer and runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel 64-bit machines. There's no separate version to track down — the same download covers both architectures. The current release, version 1.35.4, adds multilingual support with German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish joining the existing English interface.

A single-icon panel of quick toggles

Think of the app as a compact control panel. Each toggle acts like a position on a 4-position rotary switch — clean, immediate, and doing one job well. You can flip between Light and Dark appearance manually or let the app automate the switch during the day. Other toggles include hiding and showing desktop icons, connecting AirPods, starting the screen saver, and setting automatic sleep and wake times. Do Not Disturb gets its own switch too. It's a small collection that replaces a handful of separate utilities with one quiet icon in the corner of your screen.

How much menu bar space it really uses

Most people wonder how much menu bar real estate this thing actually eats. One Switch lives behind a single icon — tap it and the panel drops down with your active toggles. You're not staring at seven individual icons all day. The app also lets you hide any switch you rarely use, so the panel stays trim. Another common question is whether it fights with macOS's own Control Center. It doesn't. The app reads and writes the same system states, so flipping Dark Mode here is the same as flipping it in System Settings; nothing gets out of sync. People also ask about AirPods connection speed. It's a direct handoff to the Bluetooth stack, not a multi-step pairing ritual. One click, and if the AirPods are in your ears and nearby, they connect.

Quieting a workspace in four clicks

Here's a workflow I reach for before sitting down to edit photos. The room is bright, my desktop has a scatter of raw files, and notifications are buzzing from a group chat. With One Switch in the menu bar, the routine goes like this:

1. Click the menu bar icon and toggle Dark Mode — the screen settles into a neutral gray that doesn't compete with colors in the viewer.
2. Hit the Hide Desktop Icons switch. The mess vanishes. Files are still in the Desktop folder, just not visually shouting at me.
3. Flick Do Not Disturb. Notifications hush. The chat can wait.
4. If I want background music, the Connect AirPods switch hands off audio in about a second.

Four clicks, no windows dragged around, no digging through panes. When the session ends, I reverse the toggles and everything snaps back. You can configure which switches appear and in what order, so the ones you use together sit next to each other.

Switches now speak your system language

Version 1.35.4 brought multilingual support, which matters more in daily use than a feature list suggests. If your Mac runs in German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish, the switches and labels now follow your system language instead of defaulting to English. For anyone sharing a Mac with family members who prefer a different language, the app blends in without extra configuration. Earlier updates tightened the automatic Light/Dark scheduling — the switch now tracks sunrise and sunset more reliably across time zones, so the transition doesn't jump at an odd hour when you're traveling. The AirPods toggle also got a quiet reliability fix: it handles the edge case where AirPods are paired with multiple devices and need a firmer nudge to switch over.

Version 1.35.4 broadens the app's reach with multilingual support:

• German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish interfaces added

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit Mac