Settings
Every Settings pane, what it holds, and its defaults.
Open Settings with ⌘, from the palette, the Settings command, or the menu bar icon. It is a normal, resizable window.
The search field finds any setting by name, and also by words that are not in its title: ocr
finds Search text in images and PDFs, and caps lock finds Hyper Key. Picking a result jumps
straight to that row.
There are 21 panes in four groups.
General
General
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| App Launcher | None |
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Learned ranking | Reset… clears everything learned | — |
| Hyper Key | None · Caps Lock · Right Control · Right Shift · Right Option · Right Command | None |
| Quick Press | Does Nothing · the original key · Trigger Escape | Does Nothing |
| Include Shift (⇧) | On · Off | On |
| Theme | System · Light · Dark | System |
| Interface size | Default · Large · Larger | Default |
| Background transparency | Less to More, with Reset | Middle |
| Compact mode | On · Off | Off |
| Show favorites in compact mode | On · Off | On |
| Follow the cursor across displays | On · Off | On |
| Drag to reposition | On · Off | Off |
| Launch at login | On · Off | Off |
| Show in menu bar | On · Off | On |
| Pop to Root Search | Immediately · After 5, 15, 30, 60 or 90 seconds | Immediately |
| Escape Key Behavior | Navigate back or close window · Close window and pop to root | Navigate back or close window |
| Auto-switch input source | None, or any keyboard input source you have | None |
See The palette, Learned ranking and Hotkeys.
Permissions
Shows whether Accessibility and Calendars are granted, and opens the right System Settings pane. See Permissions.
Launcher
| Pane | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Applications | Search Scopes, Enable Applications, and a row per app |
| System Settings | Enable System Settings, and a row per pane |
| System Actions | Enable System Actions, and a row per action |
| Commands | Enable Commands, a row per built-in command, and Custom Commands |
| Quicklinks | Quicklinks switch, its commands, behavior, import and export |
| Fallbacks | Which fallbacks show under a search, and their order |
A row usually has a launcher checkbox, a shortcut recorder and an alias field. Long lists have a filter field.
The Enable … switch at the top of a pane turns off every row and every shortcut in it. A row's checkbox only hides that row from search.
Features
Everything here ships off, except Clipboard and Emoji & Symbols.
| Pane | Switch | Other settings |
|---|---|---|
| AI | Enable AI | Providers, Default model, Reasoning effort, Web search, Opens to, Start a new conversation after, Keep conversations, System prompt, MCP servers, AI commands |
| Quick Actions | Enable Quick Actions | Actions (Replace or Preview, shortcut, prompt, model), Add Quick Action, Model, Translate to |
| File Search | Enable File Search | Commands, Search Scopes, Ignore Patterns |
| Notes | Enable Notes | Notes commands |
| Snippets | Enable snippets | Show in launcher, snippet commands, New Snippet, Snippets Folder |
| Navigation | Enable navigation | Commands, Show Apple menu items (Off), Disabled Applications |
| Window Management | Enable window management | Show in launcher, Cycling (None), Gap between windows (0), window commands, Window Layouts |
| Clipboard | Enable Clipboard History (On) | Clipboard commands, Keep history for (3 Months), Search text in images and PDFs (Off), Default action (Paste), Disabled Applications, Clear history |
| Emoji & Symbols | (always on) | Emoji commands, Emoji Skin Tone (Default) |
| Calendar | Join meetings from Tinycast | Show in launcher, Upcoming meetings in launcher (5 next), Include Tomorrow's Events (On), Show the join card (5 minutes), Auto Join Meetings (Off), Camera Preview (Off), menu bar settings, Calendar commands, Calendars |
| Extensions | Enable extensions | Show in launcher, Compatibility, installed extensions, Install, Registries, Package manager, Storage |
Advanced
Backup. Export a backup, import one, or import from Raycast. See Backup & restore.
About. Version, license, Check for Updates, links to the project, and Support. See Updates.