sindresorhus/launchatlogin-modern

Add “Launch at Login” functionality to your macOS app in seconds

LaunchAtLogin

Add “Launch at Login” functionality to your macOS app in seconds

This package is meant for apps targeting macOS 13 or later. If you need backwards-compatibility, check out the old LaunchAtLogin package.

Requirements

macOS 13+

Install

Add https://github.com/sindresorhus/LaunchAtLogin-Modern in the “Swift Package Manager” tab in Xcode.

Usage

Put the toggle in your Settings scene. That's it.

import SwiftUI
import LaunchAtLogin

@main
struct MyApp: App {
	var body: some Scene {
		Settings {
			Form {
				LaunchAtLogin.Toggle()
			}
		}
	}
}

The LaunchAtLogin.Toggle view works similarly to the built-in Toggle except that is has a predefined binding and label.

The default label is "Launch at login", but it can be overridden:

import SwiftUI
import LaunchAtLogin

struct SettingsScreen: View {
	var body: some View {
		LaunchAtLogin.Toggle("Launch at login 🦄")

		// Or
		LaunchAtLogin.Toggle {
			Text("Launch at login 🦄")
		}
	}
}

You can also access the state directly:

import LaunchAtLogin

print(LaunchAtLogin.isEnabled)
//=> false

LaunchAtLogin.isEnabled = true

print(LaunchAtLogin.isEnabled)
//=> true

Note

The Mac App Store guidelines require “launch at login” functionality to be enabled in response to a user action. Your app will be rejected if you set the state to true by default.

FAQ

How is this different from the old package?

This is a new repo as the old package had a lot of bloat in its Git history. I also took the opportunity to make a more minimal API optimized for SwiftUI apps.

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