Switch display settings on Mac with a shortcut

How to turn it on

There is no toggle. Open the Display Presets card on the Features tab, type a name, and press Save Current Setup. Once a preset is saved, its hotkey works.

The menu bar popover also shows a refresh-rate picker when your display supports more than one rate.

What you can change

• Up to 5 presets for each display.
• Each preset saves a name, a width, a height and a refresh rate, all taken from the display's current mode when you press Save Current Setup.
• The list shows every preset's hotkey, name, and its size and refresh rate in hertz.
• A Remove button on each preset deletes it.

Hotkey

Control+Option+Command+1 to 5 apply presets 1 to 5, and Control+Option+Command+Up Arrow cycles to the next preset and wraps around. These hotkeys are fixed, and the app has no screen for changing them. A hotkey for an empty slot does nothing.

Permissions

None.

Good to know

• The hotkeys act on the display under the cursor.
• The preset editor saves only for your Mac's built-in display. If no built-in display is active, for example when the lid is closed, the card says so.
• Applying a preset needs a mode with the same width, height and refresh rate on that display. If there is none, nothing changes.
• The change is permanent, so it survives a restart.
• Presets are kept in this Mac's app settings and are not sent anywhere.