Well,
Just installed macOS26 and no more launchpad. Ughhh. Goodbye productivity. I don't want to type the name of my apps, I want to access them via the folders and groups I created, on the screens I placed them.
But worse, now that we have the list of apps, it shows all my iPhone and iPad apps.
I DON'T WANT them shown on my Mac.
Is there a way to display in that new "Apps" button only the apps from the Mac?
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0
Two possible ways. The first option is not showing up for everyone, it seems.
1) Click the (•••) button at the top right, click to deselect Show iPhone Apps.
2) System Settings > Spotlight, turn off iPhone Apps.
Two possible ways. The first option is not showing up for everyone, it seems.
1) Click the (•••) button at the top right, click to deselect Show iPhone Apps.
2) System Settings > Spotlight, turn off iPhone Apps.
The option to show/ hide iPhone apps was hidden to me as well. But I found that when I selected one of the filter categories, the (...) appeared for me. I clicked Show iPhone Apps then clicked again, clicked delete to clear the filter category and my iPhone apps went away from the "launchpad".
Hope this works for you.
tbirdvet wrote:
The only way you get the remove iPhone apps in the "..." menu is after you launch the mirroring app then it will show up. After using you can close out the mirroring app.
You can also remove them in System Settings>Spotlight.
To be proactive you can submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple
You can file a bug report same link here: Bug Report - Apple
I've seen the same. A reboot may be required
Thanks,
I don't have that option.
But I was able to find it into the system settings, to no effect. I have 504 apps shown in the "Apps", making it unusable. I never used Spotlight for anything and don't find it pleasant.
I'm currently restoring my Sequoia backup.
I found 26 very buggy. Especially when you double click on a document, jpg, pdf... it shows a quicklook.
Clicking on Open in PDF Expert or Open in Preview, that doesn't do anything.
Even if those apps are associated with those extensions.
I may come back the day someone provides a Launchbar alternative and they fix those amateur bugs.
It looks like they were able to make something even worse than Catalina, which is hard to believe.
Now Apple, go back to your software engineer and make them work hard.
Thanks anyway
Steve
The only way you get the remove iPhone apps in the "..." menu is after you launch the mirroring app then it will show up. After using you can close out the mirroring app.
Thanks for the info.
I'm back on Sequoia, but if I try Tahoe again, I'll keep that info handy.
I found that I had to reboot after following these instructions in order to get everything to take. Now it looks like a computer again!
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Thank you!!
Remove iPhone apps from macOS 26 pseudo-launchpad?
