fast space switching

last updated: Apr 10, 2026

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/

It's driven me crazy for a long time that space switching on mac is so slow; enough that I had given up all hope of getting it faster. That article points to an app I'd not seen before:

https://github.com/jurplel/InstantSpaceSwitcher

I've installed the app, and it works with its own shortcut, but the mac default shortcut overrides it. To disable ctrl+right and left for switching, I went to system preferences -> keyboard -> keyboard shorcuts... -> Mission Control -> Mission Control (command group) and disabled the Move left a space and Move right a space command shortcuts.

With that, instant (approximately) switching is mine after so long!

The news.yc comments point out that Aerospace, which I used for a little while, also provides this and suggest that OmniWM solves this too.

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