Apple has retired the Mac’s Launchpad, a feature that displayed all your apps and let you quickly pick the one you want to open. You can recreate the app launcher using these alternatives. Now, to be ...

Launchpad has been dropped in macOS Tahoe and it is either greatly missed, or dismissed with a shrug. If you're the former, there are things you can do to get it (mostly) back. Just in case you either ...

Editor’s note September 18, 2025: This no longer works with the official release of macOS 26. This can still work with early Tahoe betas. If you attempt to perform it in the official release of Tahoe, ...

Launchpad had been a part of the Mac operating system since OS X Lion, which was released in 2011. After 14 years, Launchpad is now retired, replaced by Apps in macOS Tahoe. Apps functions a lot like ...