You can add, remove, or rearrange Switch menu items, you can choose how to sort running applications and whether to mark Intel applications, you can show application windows, and you can exclude specific applications so that they do not appear in the Switch menu.
Open Application Wizard and choose Window > Menus. Then click Switch Menu in the sidebar.
To add an item to the Switch menu, click the Add (+) button in the toolbar and choose the new item.
To rearrange items in the Switch menu, drag them in the list.
To remove one or more items from the Switch menu, select them in the list and click the Remove (-) button in the toolbar or press the Delete key.
By default, running applications are sorted alphabetically in the Switch menu. To list them from the most recent one to the oldest one, select the “Sort running applications chronologically” checkbox.
By default, Application Wizard reopens applications when switching. To simply make applications active, deselect the “Reopen applications when making them active” checkbox. Reopening applications generally causes a window - a document or another appropriate window - to be displayed and become active.
To show application windows so that you can bring specific windows to the front when switching between applications, select the “Show application windows” checkbox.
Important: To show application windows in the Switch menu, make sure that Application Wizard can control your computer using accessibility features.
On macOS 13 or later, open System Settings, click Privacy & Security in the sidebar, click Accessibility, and make sure the Application Wizard Agent switch is on.
On macOS 12 or 11, open System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click Privacy, select Accessibility, and select the checkbox next to Application Wizard Agent.
By default, on Apple Silicon Macs, the Switch menu marks Intel applications and Universal applications which have been forced to run using Rosetta, so that you can see that they are running non-natively. To remove the Intel marks, deselect the “Mark applications opened using Rosetta” checkbox.
If you have applications that you never need to activate, you can exclude them so that they do not appear in the Switch menu.
To exclude an application, click the Add (+) button at the bottom of the excluded applications list, browse and select the application, and click Add. You can also exclude applications by dragging them from the Finder or from the Applications panel to the list.
If the application you want to exclude is contained in a file package, Control-click the package and choose Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu. Display the application you want to exclude and drag it from the Finder to the excluded applications list.
Note: Application Wizard does not list excluded applications in the Switch menu but continues to hide and show them as you choose Hide Others and Show All.
To replace an excluded application, select it in the list and choose Change Application from the Action pop-up menu. Browse and select the new application and click Change. To remove an excluded application, select it in the list and click the Remove (-) button or press the Delete key.
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