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Remove old app icons from Launchpad?

Is there an easy way to remove icons of old programs from Launchpad? Why can't we just right click on them and delete them as we can with the dock icons? For that matter, why do we even have Launchpad when there's a perfectly fine dock in use? Why do we need these redundancies?

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Nov 9, 2018 10:11 AM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2018 12:24 PM

Did you try this from that link?

Drag the icon or icons to the dock, then right click the icon on dock, select "option" - "show in finder", system will open a window to show you where the app located, then you can just threw it/them to the Trash.
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Nov 9, 2018 10:32 AM in response to CountZeero

To remove a Mac App Store app that appears in Launchpad

Follow these steps while you are logged in with an administrator account:

  1. Enter Launchpad.
  2. Click and hold on an icon until you see all icons jiggle.
  3. Click the "x" button in the upper-left of the Mac App Store app icon you want to delete.

Note: If you do not see an "x" button, either the app is not from the Mac App Store or you are logged in as a standard user.

Click "Delete" in the confirmation dialog to delete the app.

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Remove old app icons from Launchpad?

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