Restore the old launchpad on MacOs 26 Tahoe?

The new launchpad of MacOs 26 is completely unusable and messy!

Is there a way to restore the old launchpad with groups without damaging MacOs?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 10:35 AM

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Posted on Sep 16, 2025 10:41 AM

medialp wrote:

The new launchpad of MacOs 26 is completely unusable and messy!
Is there a way to restore the old launchpad with groups without damaging MacOs?


Not at this point in time.


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Sep 20, 2025 11:33 AM in response to leroydouglas

Please Please bring back LaunchPad. I spent a lot of time organizing many apps in folders and knew right where they were. This really messes up my workflow.


I am usually delighted with new improvements, but this appears like Apple just yanked Launchpad without considering people that depend on it. The Spotlight search is useless. If you're going to improve a feature then by all means, but don't just eliminate it and replace with something that doesn't even let you organize your apps.


Appreciate the suggestion for AppGrid Launcher, but why need another app when it was already part of MacOS.


Please bring it back - if it ain't broke, don't mess with it...

Thank you!

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