Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of ...

Apple's new Launchpad feature in OS X Lion may be a bit cumbersome to organize if you have numerous applications, so here are some tips on resetting and managing it, if needed. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Sometimes, for no especially apparent reason, it rearranges all of my icons in Launchpad in arbitrary and unpredictable ways. I cannot figure out any particular trigger event; I feel, to ...

Windows: It might not be the fastest way to launch apps, but OS X's Launchpad is intuitive and easy for everyone to understand. If you're hoping to get the same feature on your Windows machine ...

App organization on the Mac is subpar, and until Apple fixes it, I'll continue to rely on this stop-gap macOS solution.

OS X’s Launchpad was derided when it first appeared in OS X Lion. It was part of the then-new iOS-ification of OS X: It closely mimicked the iOS homescreen full of icons, through which you’d ...

Mac OS X Lion included a new feature called Launchpad, which basically takes the homescreen of iOS and brings it to the Mac. Launchpad is essentially your entire Applications folder in one ...

macOS’s Launchpad gives the Mac its own iPhone-esque Home Screen. Here’s how to use it. Wondering how to use macOS’s Launchpad? Read on! If there’s one thing that’s become clear in recent years it’s ...

With Launchpad open, just long click on an icon or folder. After two seconds, the icons and folders will begin shaking, an X will appear within each removable app or folder’s top-left corner and ...

The first version to be released on the Mac App Store was OS X Lion, which brought important new features such as multi-touch gestures for trackpads, Launchpad, Mission Control, and full-screen apps.