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Cannot Type in Launchpad

If I activate Launchpad on my MacBook Pro, I can type in the first few letters of an application's name to find its icon. On my iMac, it doesn't take the keyboard input at all.

It is too hard to find the application by inspection, because Launchpad produces a visual jungle of icons spread over many pages, all applications have the same importance (uninstall is just as important to Launchpad as my word processor is), organizing them is manual and tedious, and "folders" of icons can only go one level deep. So I want to use Launchpad's command-line feature to find applications.

How can I fix Launchpad to enable the typing feature?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Mid-2007

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 11:40 AM

47 replies

Apr 22, 2016 1:47 AM in response to G. K. Chesterton

I agree

was a decent and relevant post

I use launchpad all the time , works great until I just lost the ability to type, but I can still use the (microsoft) mouse scroll.

I am using El Capitan, so is not just Mountain Lion

The fix for me - thanks to the post - was hit the tab a few times and that cleared it 🙂

I guess a re-start may have done too

Launchpad is great, long may it continue for us mere mortals to use

Mash378

Level 1

4 points

Nov 19, 2016 1:11 PM in response to Devvyn

Thank you " Devvyn " that the only solution that work for me on MacBook Pro 2015 Sierra after trying many suggestions of other users. wish you all the best.

Cannot Type in Launchpad