Dashboard Replacement For Macos Catalina Island
Dashboard Replacement For Macos Catalina Lake

While macOS Catalina includes many new features and enhancements, at least one iconic Mac feature has bit the dust. With macOS 10.15, Apple has killed its famous Dashboard feature completely. This comes after Apple made it increasingly hard to access with last year’s Mojave release.

In macOS Catalina, Dashboard is nowhere to be found at all. Appleosophy even went as far as to try and enable the feature via Terminal, but without any luck. Furthermore, if you head to the Launchpad view to see all of your apps, you’ll likely see a question mark over the icon, indicating that the actual application is gone.

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Jun 05, 2019 Dashboard Feature Eliminated in macOS Catalina. Thread starter MacRumors; Start date Jun 4, 2019; Sort (Likes) Forums. Literally use the Dashboard everyday and have never had an interest in Notifications, mostly because I find it more intrusive and fiddly than Dashboard (that's right, I said it). Can anyone suggest a replacement app. Jun 05, 2019 While many macOS users won't miss Dashboard if it is removed for good, there are still some fans of the app. Image: Liam Tung/ZDNet More on Apple and macOS Catalina. Apple did not just kill iTunes with macOS Catalina. It also killed another relatively rarely used macOS feature: Dashboard. Apple disabled Dashboard by default in macOS starting with the release of OS X 10.10 Yosemite. However, the feature could always be enabled after a bit of prodding and poking in the System Preferences. Jun 05, 2019 Sticky Notes widgets on Dashboard has been replaced with a dedicated app Apple unveiled macOS 10.15 Catalina with a bunch of new features on.

Dashboard originally came to the Mac as part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, with Apple touting it as a way to quickly access basic information through widgets like weather, clocks, sticky notes, and more.

In macOS 10.10 Yosemite, Apple disabled Dashboard by default. Last year’s release of macOS 10.14 Mojave made it even harder to access, hiding it in Mission Control or requiring that you add it to your dock. While it’s technically possible that Apple could add a Dashboard-like feature back to macOS during the Catalina beta testing period, that seems unlikely.

Many features of Dashboard can now be accessed via the Today tab in Notification Center on the Mac. Here, you can add widgets for various applications like Reminders, Calendar, weather, stocks, and more. It also integrates with third-party applications.

Were you still a Dashboard user in macOS? Will you be sad to see it go when macOS 10.15 Catalina is released to the public later this year? Let us know down in the comments.

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Apple is scrubbing references to Dashboard from WebKit, the engine underlying Safari, hammering a final nail in the coffin for the feature ahead of this fall's macOS Catalina.

Dashboard Replacement For Macos Catalina Island

A changelog along those lines was posted earlier this week, Mac Otakaranoted. While WebKit is open-source, the log's author is listed as Sam Weinig, an Apple software engineer.

The absence of Dashboard was recently noticed in probing Catalina beta code. The feature has been disabled by default since 2014's OS X Yosemite, but remains an option through macOS Mojave.

Dashboard Replacement For Macos Catalina Lake

Apple first launched Dashboard with OS X Tiger in 2005. The technology brought first-party widgets to OS X, such as a calculator and a weather forecast — arguably laying some of the groundwork for iPhone apps in 2007.

The concept is now redundant on macOS however, since the Notification Center offers widgets without having to switch to a fullscreen overlay.

macOS Catalina will include features like using an iPad as a second display, a unified 'Find My' app, and the breakup of iTunes into three separate apps — Music, Podcasts, and TV. Device sync will shift to Finder.

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