Launchpad is an easy way to find and open apps on your Mac. You can even arrange and organize your apps into folders.
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Open an app
- Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, or pinch closed with your thumb and three fingers on your trackpad. Then click an app to open it.
- You can also type an app's name to find the app in Launchpad, then press the Return key to open it.
- To close Launchpad without opening an app, click the background, or pinch open your thumb and three fingers.
Organize apps
- Arrange apps: Drag an app to a new location.
- Create a folder: Drag an app onto another app.
- Close a folder: Click outside the folder.
- Rename a folder: Open a folder and click its name. Then enter a new name.
Add or remove an app
- Apps that you download from the App Store or that are included with macOS automatically appear in Launchpad. If you download an app from another source, you can add it to Launchpad by moving the app to your Applications folder.
- Learn how to delete an app from your Mac, which also removes the app from Launchpad.
| Operating system | macOS |
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| Type | Application launcher |
| Website | www.apple.com/it/macosx/lion/ |
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Launchpad is an application launcher for macOS introduced in Mac OS X Lion. Launchpad is designed to resemble the SpringBoard interface in iOS. The user starts an application by single-clicking its icon. Launchpad provides an alternative way to start applications in macOS, in addition to other options such as the Dock (toolbar launcher), Finder (file manager), Spotlight (desktop search) or Terminal (command-line interface).[1]
Features[edit]
Launchpad is populated with icons corresponding to the applications found in the /Applicationsfolder as well as in the ~/Applications, that is, in a folder named 'Applications' in user's home directory, and in any subfolders within the two above folders.[1] The user can add application icons to Launchpad. The user can also remove an application's icon, but the application itself might not be deleted if it was not originally downloaded from the Mac App Store. Apps can be arranged in named folders much like iOS. The user can then remove apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. In Mac OS X Lion, Launchpad had eight icons per row; this was changed[why?] in OS X Mountain Lion to seven icons per row.[citation needed]However, with proper root permission, by adjusting some settings users can change the number of icon rows and columns in launchpad.[2]
Since Mac OS X Lion, the function key F4 is a keyboard shortcut to Launchpad. If enabled, Apple's gesture recognition software interprets a thumb-and-three-finger pinch on a touchpad as a command to open Launchpad.[citation needed]
The ability to search applications was added in OS X Mountain Lion.[3]
In OS X Mavericks, Launchpad's background became a blurred version of the user's desktop background, and folders departed from the 'linen' texture underlay, replaced with a darker translucent background (part of the move away from skeuomorphism).[4]
In OS X Yosemite, folders in Launchpad now closely resemble those of iOS; rounded translucent squares with a 3x3 icon grid preview (of the contained applications) when closed, expanding into larger rectangular variants when opened. Furthermore, folders can now be paginated to accommodate more applications.[5]
In macOS Big Sur, the Launchpad icon changed to a 3x3 grid with icons of different colors, resembling apps. However, the usage of Launchpad remained the same.
See also[edit]
Launchpad For Mac
References[edit]
- ^ abSiracusa, John (July 20, 2011). 'Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review'. arstechnica.com. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^'Change launchpad icon rows and columns to fit more icons'. TutPosts. May 23, 2015. Archived from the original on February 17, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^'Use Launchpad Search to Quickly Open Apps in OS X'. OS X Daily. October 8, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ^'Launchpad folders are now semi-translucent in Mavericks'. Tips and tricks in Mavericks. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^Viticci, Federico. 'OS X Yosemite: Tips, Tricks, and Details'. MacStories. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
External links[edit]
Edit Launchpad Mac
- [1] Mac Basics: Launchpad is the fast way to find and open your apps at Apple.com
- WinLaunch—Launchpad alternative for Windows
Launchpad For Macbook