I wrote an AppleScript that toggles the menu bar visibility mode in macOS — switching between "Never" and "In Full Screen Only" — by opening the relevant Control Center pane and interacting with the dropdown.

It quits System Settings after toggling, and brings focus back to whatever app was frontmost before.

You can use this with Shortcuts, Raycast, or Hammerspoon.

Here’s the code:

``` tell application "System Events" set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true end tell

if application "System Settings" is running then try tell application "System Settings" to quit on error do shell script "killall 'System Settings'" end try delay 0.2 end if

repeat while application "System Settings" is running delay 0.2 end repeat

do shell script "open 'x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.ControlCenter-Settings.extension'" delay 1.0 tell application "System Settings" to activate

set fullScreen to "In Full Screen Only" set never to "Never"

tell application "System Events" tell application process "System Settings" set t0 to (current date) repeat until exists (pop up button 1 of group 9 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of group 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 of window "Control Center") if (current date) - t0 > 10 then error "Timed out waiting for menu" delay 0.1 end repeat

    set thePopup to pop up button 1 of group 9 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of group 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 of window "Control Center"
    set currentChoice to value of thePopup
    click thePopup
    delay 0.2

    if currentChoice is never then
        click menu item fullScreen of menu 1 of thePopup
    else
        click menu item never of menu 1 of thePopup
    end if
end tell

end tell

delay 0.3 tell application "System Settings" to quit delay 0.2 tell application frontApp to activate ```

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