I am trying to delete some applications which are on the Launchpad. I have tried holding down the app icon in Launchpad until the "x" appears so that i can delete. The "x" doesn't appear but does on others. So I navigate to the applications folder via Finder, but the application is not in there. How can I delete???
iMac 27″, macOS 10.14
have you attempted doing this action while booted in to Safe Mode - shift immediately at restart. will load slowly - normal. does a repair disk, clear cache files and only loads apple software, extension and fonts.
have you attempted doing this action while booted in to Safe Mode - shift immediately at restart. will load slowly - normal. does a repair disk, clear cache files and only loads apple software, extension and fonts.
Gray1964 wrote:
I am trying to delete some applications which are on the Launchpad. I have tried holding down the app icon in Launchpad until the "x" appears so that i can delete. The "x" doesn't appear but does on others. So I navigate to the applications folder via Finder, but the application is not in there. How can I delete???
If it is in your Launch Pad, it is in your Application folder.
How to delete apps on your Mac - Apple Support
Interesting - had the " Install Big Sur " full installer version downloaded via terminal and sitting in Application folder.
After running the installer, the application itself vanished from application folder - expected - but still appearing in launchpad.
Removed as per the original posters method though. head scratching :-)
Apps can have other apps inside the Application bundle. Those apps appear in LaunchPad, but you won’t see them in Applications because they are inside another app. Goolag does this with its apps. I’m not aware of others.
Welcome and Thank you too :-))
Applications appearing in Launchpad but not the Applications Folder
