Updated July 2026 · 6 min read
Keep several profiles and switch fast
The Profiles page can hold several subscriptions at once, but only one is ever active. Once that clicks, a lot of "I changed it and nothing happened" problems explain themselves.
Only one profile is live
Clicking a card on the Profiles page makes it the current config, and the selected card is clearly marked. The rest are just stored and take no part in rule matching.
So editing rules in profile A while profile B is active produces no warning at all — it simply looks like your edit did nothing. Check which card is selected before you start editing.
What the card context menu offers
Right-click gives you update, edit info, edit file, open file location and delete. Edit info is where the name and the auto-update interval live; edit file opens the YAML that this subscription produced on disk.
Remember that hand-edited content is overwritten on the next subscription update. To keep your changes, put them in a Merge or Script extension instead of editing the profile file.
After switching profiles, existing connections still run through the old node. Close them in Connections so apps reconnect with the new config.
Set the update interval per profile
The interval is a property of each individual profile, not a global setting. Give a stable main subscription a long interval and a volatile one something shorter.
When an update fails, first check whether the timestamp on the card moved. If it did not, nothing was fetched at all — check whether the subscription URL has expired and whether you are online right now.
Two things to do after switching
First, wait for the groups to re-measure latency; for the first few seconds the numbers are empty or misleading. Second, close old connections, or a running download keeps using the previous exit.
If the two profiles name their groups differently, the node you had selected no longer exists after the switch and you have to choose again. Keeping group names consistent removes that step.
What is the project?
Clash Verge Rev is a Tauri-based GUI for Mihomo with profile management, system proxy, TUN mode, rule editing and WebDAV backups.