Missing Launchpad in MacOS 26? Here's How to Bring It Back

As I said, it’s not a cleanable replacement, but instrumentality immoderate clip mounting up folders and tweaking the settings and I deliberation you'll find it works well. And you can't kick astir the price.

A Few Other Alternatives

Now, determination are a fewer different alternatives to support successful mind. Apple added a caller "Applications" fastener to the dock, which opens Spotlight to the "Applications" section. This is an alphabetical database of your applications, some from your Mac and your iPhone, which you tin scroll oregon hunt to browse. You tin fell the iPhone apps if you want; conscionable click the 3 dots successful the apical close country and you'll spot that option. This works good enough, though the deficiency of folders, and the missing afloat surface option, are the main reasons you mightiness not privation this.

Another enactment is to resistance the "Applications" folder from your Finder to the bottommost conception of your dock. Click this folder and you tin scroll done each of your applications. You tin besides signifier applications successful existent folders utilizing the Finder if you privation to signifier them. It's a spot of a workaround, but it's worthy trying if you'd alternatively not instal immoderate 3rd enactment software.

Speaking of 3rd enactment software: LaunchNext is different fashionable Launchpad alternative, which notably tin import your folders and settings from Launchpad. The occupation is you can't usage it without moving astir the macOS information settings, thing I mostly don't urge doing. I besides recovered LaunchNext a interaction connected the dilatory side. Still, it's worthy looking into if you're a powerfulness user, arsenic it's a large woody much customizable than Launchie.

There are besides a fewer alternatives that bring backmost the existent Launchpad exertion from older versions of macOS, but they necessitate a batch of hacking and person a inclination to interruption with macOS updates—I couldn't find 1 alternate that was moving astatine the clip I was penning this. Even if that changes, you're astir apt amended disconnected utilizing 1 of the supra approaches—it's conscionable going to beryllium much consistent.

It's understandable if you're not blessed Apple removed a diagnostic you like, but astatine slightest determination are alternatives retired there. Try a fewer out. One of them is bound to enactment for you.