Build Updates

Magic Device Switch 2.0 is here! 🔥

Learn more and watch the demo

TL;DR: Use your MacBooks as usual. When you dock, press the spacebar a few times—BOOM 😎

Note: Builds before v70 (2.0) are incompatible with v2.0.

v70 (Magic Device Switch 2.0) — Thursday, Jul 17, 2025

New Features
- Completely reimagined & redesigned Bluetooth experience for seamless pairing and unpairing between MacBooks
  - Devices automatically pair when you "dock" by searching for nearby Macs and devices
  - Learn more and watch the demo 🚀
- My Devices now syncs (eventually) via iCloud! 🌤️
- Gentle update reminders: updates will be shown in the menu bar with a green dot •
- Free 30-day trial and license keys to unlock full features
  - If you purchased before 2.0, you will receive a free license key in your Gumroad Library or original email receipt (click the link again to access!)
  - Each license key supports up to 5 active devices. To switch computers, simply deregister a device and reuse your key — super easy!
Other Changes
- Unpairing on sleep has been removed
- Pause logic has been removed
- Programmatic restarting is no longer used
- Hang logic now retries up to 3 times instead of restarting the app (still improving this behavior)
- Lots of clean up

👇 All builds below were beta releases, incompatible with v70 (2.0) 👇

v50 — Thursday, Feb 20, 2025

Say hello to a brand new URL scheme! Now you can run commands from other places 🚀
- Here are some examples:
  - mds://pauseUntilDisconnect?count=1
  - mds://pauseUntilDisconnect?count=2
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=5PM
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=5%20AM
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=2025-12-31%205:00PM
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=tonight
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=tomorrow
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=tomorrow%20morning
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=tomorrow%20night
  - mds://pauseUntilDate?date=tomorrow%207pm
  - mds://cancelPause
  - mds://pairAll
  - mds://unpairAll
You can also query the state (via JSON) of the devices from the terminal by running defaults read com.jangelsb.mds "mds.watching_devices"

Changed the build to 0.9 since this app is still technically in beta
Updated the icon to now be a SwiftUI view and added a new Pause state indicator
Added a 0.5 delay when restarting MDS, so hopefully it is more reliable and fixes the state where it tries to restart and fails and thefore MDS is no longer running
Minor clean up

v49 — Saturday, Feb 15, 2025

Say hello to keyboard shortcuts! 🚀
- Available shortcuts
  - pairing all devices
  - unpairing all devices
  - pausing for 1 disconnect
  - pausing until 5am
  - pausing until 5pm
  - canceling a pause
- Each of the shortcut actions now has a sweet new notification popup notifying you of the current state
Also simplified the wakeup charging triggers by only listening for charging notification changes on wakeup
Minor clean up

v48 — Saturday, Feb 15, 2025

Fixed a really bad bug where the app could get stuck in an infinite loop of crashing 👀 (only affected v47!)
Now before doing any pair all action, it first checks to see if pairing is needed, if not, log it and skip the action
Changed how the app restarts to be even more reliable
Minor clean up

v47 — Friday, Feb 14, 2025

v44 — Thursday, Feb 13, 2025

Added support for restarting mds if new trigger is after 20 mins
Added support for auto launching mds on log in
Update restartMDS to not show the menu automatically if restarted programmatically

v43 — Thursday, March 14, 2024

Recreate Bluetooth Pairers each time before attempting to pair devices (to hopefully preemptively fix the Bluetooth pairing hanging issue that usually needs a restart after 20 seconds)
Add the ability to pause for just one disconnect
Minor clean up

v42 — Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Update "Helpful Tips" to have a direct link to the System Settings > Battery > options... screen
Add the ability to open releases page and download the new zip at the same time - support new folder structure
Update on start logic to correctly set the menu bar icon (if you have a paired device that is not connected at that time)

v41 — Saturday, February 10, 2024

Move list of unwatched devices to a scroll view
limit the height of each item
Fix issue where in "connected" state when there are no watched devices
Add "outgoing" connection support - "client"
Add ability to check latest build number on github when manually clicking on menu bar button
Add the ability to only fetch the latest build after x amount of seconds, currently 1 hour
Update the UI to show a banner to the release page, if there is new build

v40 — Friday, February 9, 2024