Category: How To

With MacOS Tahoe, Launchpad has gone. In its place is an Apps panel that shows all your applications, in alphabetical order. No way of grouping. No way of moving apps around. If you’ve forgotten the name of an app, you’ll find yourself slowly scrolling the list until you find it (as I’ve had to do a number of times since installing Tahoe just a few days ago).

Of all the changes made this, for me, is the biggest retrograde step. For anyone with Neurodiversities, there’ a good chance this new method if going to be a lot harder to use.

Sometimes you just want to open up your MacBook, or plug it in, without it deciding to power itself on. Most of the time the behaviour makes sense but sometimes you don’t want it – wouldn’t it better to allow the. user to decide?

Until now, changing this default wasn’t possible, but with M-powered MacBooks and MacOS Sequoia onwards, you can now do this.

In MacOS you can swipe left or right to cause a browser’s web page to move forward and back (also known as “overscrolling”). It can be a useful trick, but can also prove to be annoying. I’m in the latter camp.

It can be turned off, but only from the command line.