Turbo Boost Switcher – autostart under MacOS Big Sur without password prompt

Quickly noted for me, how to set up Turbo Boost Switcher to start automatically under MacOS Big Sur without a password prompt and disable Turbo Boost at startup.

Prerequisite: Turbo Boost Switcher is installed and working manually operated? Yes? Good! –> Close existing running instance of Turbo Boost Switcher NOW.

Create a new file:

sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.turbo-boost-switcher.plist

Paste this text and save:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
         <key>Label</key>
         <string>com.turbo-boost-switcher</string>
         <key>ProgramArguments</key>
         <array>
           <string>/Applications/Turbo Boost Switcher.app/Contents/MacOS/Turbo Boost Switcher</string>
         </array>
         <key>RunAtLoad</key>
         <true/>
         <key>KeepAlive</key>
         <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Start:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.turbo-boost-switcher.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.turbo-boost-switcher.plist

Set the checkbox “Disable TB at Launch” in the GUI:

When you restart your Mac, the Menu Bar should display the Turbo Boost Switcher Icon as disabled (as shown in the screenshot above). This can take a few seconds, so be sure to wait a bit after you restarted 🙂

4 Comments

Veaceslav

17. July 2021, 21:33

Hello. Hope well. Why I’m getting the following error? Thank you

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.turbo-boost-switcher.plist: Invalid property list
Unload failed: 109: Invalid property list
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.turbo-boost-switcher.plist: Invalid property list
Load failed: 109: Invalid property list
Taichi Leipzig

17. December 2021, 08:56

Thanks! Could this work with Catalina, too?
Taichi Leipzig

30. March 2022, 19:43

Thanks a lot, works with Monterey 🙂
XBiS

6. January 2023, 12:20

thanks!! saved quite a bit of time

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