HOW TO Set up One Switch controls

Dark Mode options

Click on the One Switch icon in the menu bar and click the button next to Dark Mode. Confirm you want to allow One Switch to access System Events. Click on One Switch again, then the arrow and choose an option.

Connect AirPods

With AirPods, or Beats headphones with an Apple W1 or H1 chip, paired with your Mac, click on One Switch. To connect, toggle the switch to on. More than one set? Choose which ones to connect by pressing the arrow.

3 Turn on Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb can be toggled in Notification Centre. But One Switch, as well as toggling it on/off, can also set the duration. In the One Switch menu, click on the menu next to Do Not Disturb and choose a duration.

4 Adjust Night Shift

As well as toggling Night Shift on/off, you can activate the sunrise to sunset schedule. Click the arrow next to Night Shift and choose ‘Auto change from sunrise to sunset’. You can’t select a timed schedule.

5 Stay awake

There are times when you need to override Energy Saver. Use the Keep Awake toggle in One Switch to do that and choose a length of time from the menu for the override to remain active, or select Indefinitely.

6 Hide controls

If you don’t want all the options available, you can turn some off. Click on the One Switch menu bar item, and choose Customize. Select the Customize tab, then uncheck the box next to the options that you don’t want.

7 Change order

If you want to place the controls you use most often at the top, you can. In the Customize tab, click and hold on the three lines next to any item. Drag up or down to reposition that item.

8 Keyboard shortcuts

Click on the One Switch menu and then on the gear icon at the bottom. Choose the Shortcuts tab then navigate to the item you want to set a shortcut for. Press the keyboard combination you want to use for the shortcut.