Apps menu changed on the Dock with macOS 26

En fait, on est habitué avec Apple à avoir le choix, ex : plein de personnalisation ajouté dans MacOS 26, mais on vous force à adopter le nouveau menu des applications.

Ce serait cool qu'on est le choix là aussi, surtout qu'il y a mon sens une double utilisation ** Spotlight.

Pratique avant, meilleur maintenant avec "⌘ + &" on trouvait nos applications direct avec Spotlight, j'ai toujours utilisé "🔍 + saf" pour ouvrir Safari, pour reprendre l'exemple cité précédemment.

Encore plus génial pour la recherche de fichier et l'exécution de raccourcis.

L'ancien menu des applications (façon iOS) me permettait de trier mes apps par famille(et mon dieu qu'on s'y retrouve mieux !), et j'avais un "fourre-tout" où je mettais toute les app ** genre CHESS !!! Ces app inutile qu'on ne peut pas supprimer...

Alors pourquoi instaurer un Spotlight bis pour les application uniquement quand on ajoute dans le même mise à jour le génialissime "⌘ + &" ???

C'est une deuxièmes recherche rapide intelligente en réalité, pas un menu pour applications...

Deux chemins pour l'exact même résultat.

Ce n'est que mon avis bien sûr ! ☮️

I know that I have way too many apps on my iPhone, including many I have no idea about and don't remember downloading unless I launch them and look at them. I periodically make a stab at winnowing them down to something more reasonable but I usually get bored by the time I reach the Cs.

To compare notes re iPhone

I have less Third Party Apps on 1 iPhone than I do on the combined number to third party applications on 3 Apple machines with Tahoe

Yes, with the every speeding of Time , the memory has not yet become totally full ( subject to number of coffees I have had ) lol

Grrrr. I navigate and find apps by icons, not always by their names! I have dozens of software musical instruments and they were organized within manufacturer/company launchpad folders. Now I need to recall the app names or type some letters to view them using this App menu? Who thinks constant scrolling or typing letters to view apps is sustainable? Can someone tell me how this is an improvement?

yeah the app menu might be acceptable if either could still put apps in folders and/or choose not to display iphone apps!

I use my mac for different thing than i use my phone, so why would i want my iphone apps in there?!

Right! I don’t use a mouse. There’s this thing called a keyboard—learn touch typing, memorize All your apps names and utilities, btw why you just not using terminal and command line instead of UX..

srczm.

I think visually minded people miss this piece of functionality. The organizing element with ‘pages’ is also a big miss. But… we did get the colored folders (when labelled) back since macOS 9. Who knows what might happen in the next 20 years ;-)

I prefer the old LaunchPad. I don't recall my apps by name.

I spent a LOT of TIME organizing my apps into specific types of folders and I go off of visual-location memory to access the apps, not by specific spelling/name of the apps! This is very annoying!

Please allow Mac OS users to have the option to revert back to the LaunchPad.

Not everyone wants this update!

ultraskywalker wrote:

Not everyone wants this update!

Not everyone wants anything. That doesn’t change the fact that change is inevitable and necessary.

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." — Socrates

That work if you only use a few apps and can remember the spelling for all of them. try 60 apps for my business, and I had all of them categorized by usage and an additional page for trash apps that get installed with all your main apps. Try adobe suite in of itself, I had a folder with 20 separate apps that adobe installs that you don't ever run or open they just get installed next to your adobe programs with similar names. a dozen other design apps, engineering apps, dont get me started how many apps I have to sort thorugh now to start a project. so I'm suppose to type in the names of all 10 apps that I need to run for a project at one time then sort through visually which ones are the duplicate trash similar named apps that you never use that seems innefficient to me.

I don't know I think apple had a mistep here. I like organization and cleanliness and this doesnt seem organized to me. could be wrong maybe Im missing somthing.

steevi275 wrote:

Thanks and yes it does. it wasn broken

Being adequate for some people doesn't mean 1) that it works for everyone or even most people, and 2) that it is somehow immune to change. "Disaster" is just a tad hyperbolic.

The problem is: we always not remember the apps names - but we know exactly where it is in the screen - whether by its position or icon...

So, with this new one, we lost two more cognitive ways to find apps we use the most - and don't remember immediately the names.

Without this, we have to think about the apps names instead of its function... Which makes a device with a physical keyboard worse than any device without a physical keyboard.

Can we at least be able to organize the apps by simply dragging and dropping at a specific position? I want to personalize the apps order - even though we lost 70 to 80% of real estate on screen... That would help.

Several free alternatives have been suggested.

While I find it hard to believe that people are unable to remember names like "Safari" or "Word", if you want to use something like Launchpad, you can. Precisely because macs have a keyboard (and because it started in iPhone), Launchpad always seemed alien on the mac, FWIW. That makes your comment about it being "worse than a device without a physical keyboard" sound... I don't know, weird? Because with Launchpad you didn't use the keyboard :-)

So, Luis, you suggest we replace one click with how many clicks and types?