{"id":1032,"date":"2025-07-14T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:49:48","slug":"you-can-bring-back-launchpad-in-macos-26-but-you-shouldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/you-can-bring-back-launchpad-in-macos-26-but-you-shouldnt\/","title":{"rendered":"You can bring back Launchpad in macOS 26, but you shouldn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/You-can-bring-back-Launchpad-in-macOS-26-but-you-shouldnt.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/macos-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">macOS 26<\/a> is set to bring a whole new look and feel, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/10\/macos-26-three-new-mac-apps-and-new-features-in-photos-messages-notes-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three new apps<\/a>, and a slew of new features, it does also remove a very old feature still loved by some: Launchpad.<\/p>\n<p>Launchpad dates all the way back to 2010, and lets you see and organize all your <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> apps across a series of screens. There are two main reasons some people still use it today \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macos-26\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1009762\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/14\/you-can-bring-back-launchpad-in-macos-26-but-you-shouldnt\/#more-1009762\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While macOS 26 is set to bring a whole new look and feel, three new apps, and a slew of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/you-can-bring-back-launchpad-in-macos-26-but-you-shouldnt\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You can bring back Launchpad in macOS 26, but you shouldn\u2019t<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}