Skip to content

System Preferences

System Preferences lets you jump directly to a specific settings pane by searching for its name.

Searching for 'sound' showing the Sound settings pane Searching for 'sound' showing the Sound settings pane

All available settings panes are indexed at startup. You can also search using the keywords “settings” or “preferences” to browse the full list.

Each result shows the pane name, “System Settings” as the subtitle, and the pane’s icon.

Settings panes are discovered dynamically by scanning /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions for .appex bundles. Each bundle’s Info.plist is checked for the allowsXAppleSystemPreferencesURLScheme flag. Only panes that support the x-apple.systempreferences: URL scheme are included.

The display name is read from the bundle’s localized Info.plist. Icons are extracted from the .appex bundle via NSWorkspace.iconForFile().

When you select a pane, Torchsnap opens a deep-link URL in the format x-apple.systempreferences:<BundleIdentifier>, which launches System Settings directly at the chosen pane.

Action Shortcut Description
Open Enter Open the settings pane directly.