Finder Preferences

Open a Finder window, hover your pointer on Favorites to Show or Hide all.

go to > Customize the Finder toolbars on Mac - Apple Support

Scroll down to “Customize the Sidebar” and look at “Show or Hide all the items in a selection of the sidebar:

That Finder settings pane only refers to the Applications folder, not actual applications.

Applications is on the Sidebar.

Use Applications from the Sidebar to open any App or your Dock to access preferred App’s.

den.thed wrote:

Applications is on the Sidebar.

According to the post, Applications is not showing in the Sidebar despite being enabled in Finder preferences.

Yeah’ thanks.

Perhaps the arrow is turned and the sidebar Favorites are Hidden?

You’re welcome.