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To remove apps from the launchpad, you can simply open it and drag the icon/app you want to remove in the Trash, on the dock. If this does not solve it, open the App folder from Finder and remove any possible folders/icon that you want to remove. 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?
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However as much as I know it was way to hard to delete unwanted application from launchpad for many users that also include me. The LaunchPad-Control will help users to mange launchpad in mac. But if you’re just like DIY kind than you must read this article to know how manually delete apps from launchpad in Mac OS X.In this article, I will show tutorials first how to delete particular app from launchpad in mac and second is how to delete all apps from launchpad. Copy app from ipad to mac.
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So, first of all we going to discuss how you can easily remove per apps from launchpad on your mac.
But I’ve to tell you there is three method from which you can delete app from launchpad 1 ) Using LaunchPad 2 ) Command Line 3 ) Using Finder
Delete One App at a Time Using Launchpad
To delete one selected app from launchpad on your mac using a launchpad.
Click and Hold down the con until all icons start jiggling.
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Click on ‘X’ button shown in upper left side of corner of the icons that you want to delete.
However you can only delete apps that installed form Mac App Store. Which means if you want to delete an app from your mac that not installed from Mac App Store you’ve to use command line to remove it that given below.
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Delete Selected on Launchpad Using Command Line
So, to delete app that not installed from Mac App Store you’ve to use command lines on terminal.
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First launch the Terminal and enter the given following command line. But replace the ”NAME OF APP” with the name of application you want to delete.
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps WHERE title=’NAME OF APP ‘;” && killall Dock
Deleting App on Launchpad Using Finder
To delete app from launchpad you can also used finder application. If both above don’t work for you.
2. Right Click on the app you want to delete on Dock
3. Now choose the Options > Show in Finder
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4. You can also delete the app.
Delete All Apps From Launchpad Using Terminal
You can delete all apps from launchpad and give a fresh start and can installed your favorite apps on launchpad and lot more.
Launch the Terminal
Use mac photos app facebook. Enter the given following command line
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps; DELETE from groups WHERE title”; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;”; killall Dock
Note that one you delete the apps they can’t be recover. So first of all check the your mac launchpad and then format the launchpad.
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