---
title: "Toggle booleans with switches | Phase Changelog"
description: "The Console now automatically detects boolean values and adds a toggle switch to easily flip between 'true' and 'false' states."
url: https://phase.dev/changelog/boolean-toggles/
---

[Changelog](https://phase.dev/changelog/)

2024.03.27

# Toggle booleans with switches

The Console now automatically detects boolean values and adds a toggle switch to easily flip between 'true' and 'false' states.

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![boolean toggles](https://phase.dev/assets/images/changelog/boolean-toggles/boolean-toggles.webp)

The Console now automatically detects boolean values and adds a toggle switch to easily flip between `true` and `false` states.

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## Making environment variables suck less

We are constantly exploring new ways to improve the developer experience for managing application secrets and configuration. A common pattern in managing application configuration is using a `True` or `False` value to flip a setting on or off. This setting could be something like a debug mode, test mode, or a CI setting to control how a pipeline is executed.

With the [latest release](https://github.com/phasehq/console/releases/tag/v2.16.0) of the Phase Console, you can now flip these values with a single click, instead of having to type them out.

Here it is in action:

## How it works

When you create a new Secret in the Phase Console, it automatically detects if the value is a boolean. Currently we support UPPERCASE, lowercase and Title Case versions of either `true` or `false` as a valid boolean, so any of the following values:

-   true
-   True
-   TRUE
-   false
-   False
-   FALSE

If the value of a secret matches any of these, the Console displays a toggle switch next to the input field for easy on-off flipping. Flipping a value will preserve its case, so an UPPERCASE `TRUE` will flip to `FALSE`, lowercase `true` will flip to `false` and so on.

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The new boolean toggles are live on [Phase Cloud](https://console.phase.dev) and [v2.16.0](https://github.com/phasehq/console/releases/tag/v2.16.0) for self-hosted users.

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