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How to remove app from LaunchPad

How do you remove an app that was manually added to LaunchPad?

After getting the icons to "wiggle" I tried dragging the target app to the trash, tried pressing the delete key while click-holding on the app.

My gosh, what ever has happened to the Apple User Interface Guidelines where the intent is to make actions simple and intuitive? I've been using Macs since the Mac SE days, and am myself a hobbyist developer. This really shouldn't be rocket science to customize the LaunchPad, nor should I need to refer to a manual.

PM 2x2.3, MP 2x2.66 Duo, MP 2x2.8 Quad and MBP 2.26 Duo Unibody, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 2, 2013 8:34 AM

32 replies

Aug 31, 2014 8:37 AM in response to William Lloyd

Can we please have Steve Jobs back? I'm 100% per cent sure he would not have allowed such a nonsense design, sorry.

Rajawali

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Sep 8, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Keith Doherty3

Thank you. As suggested, I went to the Applications folder in Finder, located the app I wanted to remove, highlight it, go to the "wheel", select the function "move to trash" and off it went to trash. Then I went to Trash and empty it. Done.

How to remove app from LaunchPad