Toggle is a user-interface component that lets users update preferences and settings. It enforces a mutually exclusive state, on or off, and provides clear context for current status. Unlike checkboxes and radio buttons, toggles don’t require users to read text. Because users must rely on visual cues to understand the current state of the toggle, picking the right visual design can be tricky.

You can use toggles to validate features with a subset of your audience before full rollout, or as circuit breakers during high latency periods. Your engineering team can also quickly switch features back to the previous version if they need to fix issues.

Visibility toggles can hide articles, containers, images, key/value items, prompt linked articles, quotes, aloud boxes, character relations and diplomacy relations in the presentation view. However, they cannot hide the article title or credit section. Also, articles with spoiler buttons and dynamic content that loads later may not be fully hidden.

As your product expands, the use of feature toggles becomes more frequent and the number of toggles increases as well. A feature flag management platform like Kameleoon can help you organize all of your feature flags and toggles in a single dashboard. Then you can easily manage current toggles and remove old ones, as needed. This will reduce technical debt and prevent your users from encountering stale, outdated elements on your site or app. You can also enable a “show all” mode in the dashboard to provide visibility to all active toggles, regardless of which page a user is on.