diff --git a/cypress/fixtures/flows/dashboard-switches.json b/cypress/fixtures/flows/dashboard-switches.json
index c505bdc5d..89c045ae3 100644
--- a/cypress/fixtures/flows/dashboard-switches.json
+++ b/cypress/fixtures/flows/dashboard-switches.json
@@ -253,5 +253,104 @@
                 "test-helper"
             ]
         ]
+    },
+    {
+        "id": "dashboard-ui-group-3",
+        "type": "ui-group",
+        "name": "Group 3",
+        "page": "dashboard-ui-page-1",
+        "width": "6",
+        "height": "1",
+        "order": -1,
+        "showTitle": true,
+        "className": "",
+        "visible": "true",
+        "disabled": "false"
+    },
+    {
+        "id": "dashboard-ui-button-show-input-on",
+        "type": "ui-button",
+        "z": "node-red-tab-switches",
+        "group": "dashboard-ui-group-3",
+        "name": "",
+        "label": "Button - On (bool)",
+        "order": 0,
+        "width": 0,
+        "height": 0,
+        "tooltip": "",
+        "color": "",
+        "bgcolor": "",
+        "className": "",
+        "icon": "",
+        "payload": "true",
+        "payloadType": "bool",
+        "topic": "",
+        "topicType": "str",
+        "x": 90,
+        "y": 420,
+        "wires": [
+            [
+                "dashboard-ui-switch-show-input"
+            ]
+        ]
+    },
+    {
+        "id": "dashboard-ui-button-show-input-off",
+        "type": "ui-button",
+        "z": "node-red-tab-switches",
+        "group": "dashboard-ui-group-3",
+        "name": "",
+        "label": "Button - Off (bool)",
+        "order": 0,
+        "width": 0,
+        "height": 0,
+        "tooltip": "",
+        "color": "",
+        "bgcolor": "",
+        "className": "",
+        "icon": "",
+        "payload": "false",
+        "payloadType": "bool",
+        "topic": "",
+        "topicType": "str",
+        "x": 90,
+        "y": 460,
+        "wires": [
+            [
+                "dashboard-ui-switch-show-input"
+            ]
+        ]
+    },
+    {
+        "id": "dashboard-ui-switch-show-input",
+        "type": "ui-switch",
+        "z": "node-red-tab-switches",
+        "name": "",
+        "label": "Show Input",
+        "group": "dashboard-ui-group-3",
+        "order": 0,
+        "width": "3",
+        "height": "1",
+        "passthru": false,
+        "decouple": true,
+        "topic": "topic",
+        "topicType": "str",
+        "style": "",
+        "className": "",
+        "onvalue": "on",
+        "onvalueType": "str",
+        "onicon": "",
+        "oncolor": "",
+        "offvalue": "off",
+        "offvalueType": "str",
+        "officon": "",
+        "offcolor": "",
+        "x": 300,
+        "y": 440,
+        "wires": [
+            [
+                "test-helper"
+            ]
+        ]
     }
 ]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cypress/tests/widgets/switch.spec.js b/cypress/tests/widgets/switch.spec.js
index fc4782408..9c5fe79c8 100644
--- a/cypress/tests/widgets/switch.spec.js
+++ b/cypress/tests/widgets/switch.spec.js
@@ -89,3 +89,40 @@ describe('Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 - Switches with Icons', () => {
         cy.checkOutput('msg.payload', 'off')
     })
 })
+
+describe('Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 - Switches in "Show Input" mode', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+        cy.deployFixture('dashboard-switches')
+        cy.visit('/dashboard/page1')
+    })
+
+    it('can be set to the on state via incoming payload and does not pass on the value', () => {
+        cy.resetContext()
+        cy.clickAndWait(cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-button-show-input-on'))
+
+        // Emitting strings
+        cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-switch-show-input').find('.v-input.v-input--horizontal').should('have.class', 'v-switch')
+        cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-switch-show-input').find('.v-input.v-input--horizontal').should('have.class', 'active')
+
+        cy.checkOutput('msg', undefined)
+    })
+
+    it('is put into loading state when clicked, and resets to pre-click state on a page refresh', () => {
+        // set to off
+        cy.clickAndWait(cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-button-show-input-on'))
+
+        // click the switch directly
+        cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-switch-show-input').find('input').click()
+
+        // put into loading state
+        cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-switch-show-input').find('.v-input.v-input--horizontal').should('have.class', 'v-switch--loading')
+
+        // should now be off
+        cy.checkOutput('msg.payload', 'off')
+
+        cy.reload()
+
+        // on refresh, status is reset to pre-click state
+        cy.get('#nrdb-ui-widget-dashboard-ui-switch-show-input').find('.v-input.v-input--horizontal').should('have.class', 'active')
+    })
+})
diff --git a/nodes/store/data.js b/nodes/store/data.js
index 5d2674663..32810d148 100644
--- a/nodes/store/data.js
+++ b/nodes/store/data.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ const getters = {
     },
     // given a widget id, return the latest msg received
     msg (id) {
-        return data[id]
+        return config.RED.util.cloneMessage(data[id])
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/nodes/widgets/ui_switch.js b/nodes/widgets/ui_switch.js
index f110bc41d..9ae5373a6 100644
--- a/nodes/widgets/ui_switch.js
+++ b/nodes/widgets/ui_switch.js
@@ -21,16 +21,6 @@ module.exports = function (RED) {
                 // ensure we have latest instance of the widget's node
                 const wNode = RED.nodes.getNode(node.id)
 
-                if (!config.passthru && config.decouple) {
-                    return
-                }
-
-                node.status({
-                    fill: value ? 'green' : 'red',
-                    shape: 'ring',
-                    text: value ? states[1] : states[0]
-                })
-
                 // retrieve the assigned on/off value
                 const on = RED.util.evaluateNodeProperty(config.onvalue, config.onvalueType, wNode)
                 const off = RED.util.evaluateNodeProperty(config.offvalue, config.offvalueType, wNode)
@@ -40,10 +30,19 @@ module.exports = function (RED) {
                     msg = await appendTopic(RED, config, node, msg)
                 }
 
-                datastore.save(group.getBase(), node, msg)
+                if (!config.passthru && config.decouple) {
+                    wNode.send(msg)
+                } else {
+                    node.status({
+                        fill: value ? 'green' : 'red',
+                        shape: 'ring',
+                        text: value ? states[1] : states[0]
+                    })
+                    datastore.save(group.getBase(), node, msg)
 
-                // simulate Node-RED node receiving an input
-                wNode.send(msg)
+                    // simulate Node-RED node receiving an input
+                    wNode.send(msg)
+                }
             },
             onInput: async function (msg, send) {
                 let error = null