SwiftMiner Settings Guide for Twitch Drops Mining

Open settings in SwiftMiner by choosing SwiftMiner > Settings... in the macOS menu bar, or by pressing the ⌘, shortcut on your keyboard. Settings are grouped into tabs for the main parts of the application.

General Settings

Manage application visibility, startup behavior, notifications, game artwork, and miner pictures.

General — app presence, background behaviour, notifications, artwork and miner pictures.

Setting	Description
App Presence	Choose where SwiftMiner appears: `Dock Only`: App runs in a standard window with a Dock icon. `Menu Bar Only`: App runs as a status item in the menu bar. Closing the window keeps it running in the background. `Dock + Menu Bar`: Displays in both locations.
Run in background when closed	Keep miners running even if you close the main window. Highly recommended for uninterrupted farming.
Start at login	Launches SwiftMiner automatically when you log in to your Mac. Note: You may need to approve SwiftMiner in macOS System Settings > Login Items.
Start minimized	Hide the main window on login launch so it runs quietly in the background. (Only applies to automatic login launches).
Use Steam artwork	Prefer fetching portrait game artwork from the Steam store CDN. Falls back to Twitch artwork when not found.
Miner pictures	Choose whether a miner's header picture comes from `Discord` (the account it is linked to) or `Twitch` (the account it mines with). Whichever you pick, the other service is used when it has no picture, and the miner's initial is shown when neither does.

Accounts Settings

Manage your linked Twitch profiles. You can add new accounts, remove inactive connections, or re-authenticate expired sessions.

Accounts — authorised Twitch accounts, nicknames and the operator flag.

Add Account: Generates a new Twitch device login flow. You can link multiple accounts to farm Drops simultaneously.
Reconnect: If a session expires (showing Needs Auth), click Reconnect to refresh credentials without removing the account history.
Remove Account: Deletes saved credentials for that profile from your macOS Keychain and removes it from SwiftMiner.

Mining Settings

Configure automated behaviors, claim triggers, and recovery logic.

Mining — strategy, claim behaviour and stream selection.

For detailed campaign ordering, global and account-specific priorities, exclusions, and backup channels, see Game Rules & Failover Streamers.

Setting	Description
Auto-claim drops	Automatically submits claim requests to Twitch as soon as you accumulate enough watch time for a reward.
Auto-claim channel points	Automatically claims green bonus channel points on watched channels when they pop up.
Sync miner state	Links the run states of all miners. Starting or stopping one miner will start or stop them all.
Auto-start on launch	Miners automatically resume watch sessions when the app opens, provided they are authenticated.
Avoid duplicate streams	When farming the same game on multiple accounts, SwiftMiner tries to distribute miners to different broadcasters to reduce stream overlaps.
Prioritise followed streamers	Prefer channels that you follow or subscribe to when choosing a broadcaster for a campaign.
Enable badges & emotes	Includes campaigns that only reward Twitch profile badges or channel emotes (instead of in-game items).
Anti-stall recovery	Monitors drop progress. If watch time has not progressed for several minutes on an active stream, SwiftMiner automatically refreshes the stream or switches channels to resume earning.

Advanced & Logs Config

Configure internal developer settings, UI layouts, and logging levels.

Advanced — custom Twitch client ID, settings backup and maintenance.

Log level: Set the granularity of events stored in the logs: Debug, Info, Warning, or Error.
Show log console: Toggles a panel in the main window containing real-time diagnostic output.

Updates Settings

SwiftMiner leverages the Sparkle framework to deliver secure, automated updates.

Updates — release channel and unattended install behaviour.

Check for updates: Manually trigger a check against the update server.
Update Channel: Choose between Stable (fully tested releases) or Beta (early-access features).
Automatically check for updates: Allow Sparkle to query for updates in the background.
Allow unattended updates: Downloads eligible updates silently and installs them according to your selected timing policy.

See Automatic & Unattended Updates for details about the initial prompt, install timing, and macOS App Management permission.