This article is concerned with the problem of prescribed performance event-triggered tracking control for a class of strict-feedback switched uncertain nonlinear systems. A prescribed performance event-triggered adaptive fuzzy control approach for solving the problem is set up by exploiting backstepping and the average dwell time (ADT) technique. Compared with the existing prescribed performance control designed in the continuous-time context, the proposed approach constructs a prescribed performance event-triggered adaptive fuzzy controller for each subsystem and a switching event-triggered mechanism (ETM), which can largely save communication resources. Meanwhile, the issue of asynchronous switching between candidate subsystems and candidate controllers is dealt with, and transient and steady-state performance of tracking error is ensured under a class of switching signals with ADT. Moreover, the result above is extended to switched uncertain nonlinear systems with vanishing control gains at some points by developing a hysteresis-type switching signal. Also, Zeno phenomenon is excluded for the switching ETM and the hysteresis-type switching signal. Finally, two examples are given to verify the effectiveness of the obtained two results, respectively.