Turn Application Wizard on

To use Application Wizard, you must turn it on.

To turn Application Wizard on:

Open Application Wizard.
On macOS 13 or later, choose Application Wizard > Settings. On macOS 12 or 11, choose Application Wizard > Preferences. Then click General.
Click the on/off switch.

When Application Wizard is turned on, you can access the Open, Quit, Switch, and Special menus in three ways: using the menu panel, from the menu bar, and using keyboard shortcuts.

When Application Wizard is turned off, menus are not accessible, single application mode cannot be used, and keyboard shortcuts are inactive, but you can edit menus, groups, custom applications, keyboard shortcuts, and window restoration using Application Wizard Settings (macOS 13 or later) or Application Wizard Preferences (macOS 12 or 11).

Important: To correctly display window restoration related commands in the Quit menu (Quit and Keep Windows, Quit and Close All Windows), Application Wizard needs to access your running applications’ preference files. For this reason, macOS 14 Sonoma will ask you whether you want to allow Application Wizard to access data from other apps. To avoid being asked every time you log in or start up your Mac, you should grant full disk access to Application Wizard. Open System Settings, click Privacy & Security in the sidebar, click “Full Disk Access”, add Application Wizard to the list, and click its switch to turn full disk access on.