"In 2011, Apple introduced Launchpad to MacOS. It's an almost pixel-for-pixel clone of the iPhone Home screen, but bigger. When it was introduced, die-hard Mac users almost universally gave it a "meh" because there were other well-traveled ways to launch apps on the Mac. But over the years, some of us grew to rely on Launchpad for its simplicity and clarity of presentation."
"In place of Launchpad is a horrid little grid of apps that drops down under the Spotlight bar. You can't rearrange the apps. You can't choose which apps go in which category. You can't even assign your own categories or pick which apps go into them. For that matter, you can't actually scroll the list of categories if you only have a mouse."
"Worse, it's buggy. This is a screenshot of what it looked like after scrolling down just a little bit. It has chunks of text from part of my to-do list, chunks of text from some notepad notes, and a set of tiny Reminders icons along the left side."
Launchpad launched in 2011 as a larger, nearly pixel-for-pixel Home screen analogue for macOS, and some users relied on it for simple, clear app organization. macOS Tahoe 26 removes Launchpad and replaces it with a small Spotlight-attached app grid that cannot be rearranged or customized, and categories cannot be edited or assigned. The grid requires a trackpad for horizontal scrolling; mice cannot scroll category lists. The grid exhibits visual bugs, including stray snippets of unrelated text and misplaced icons. The change disrupted established workflows, and a free combo of Launchie plus Hot Corners can replicate the original Launchpad behavior.
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