So if I type C, for instance, you'll see I have apps that have C at the beginning of the name or at the beginning of a word in the name of the app. So you can search for an app by simply starting to type its name. Now one of the best features of Launchpad is the Search field at the top. It will only take up one slot, perhaps on the last screen of Launchpad, and won't get in your way anymore. You can even create a folder that has apps that you just don't want to see. If you want to cleanup Launchpad the best thing to do is to create folders to hold groups of apps. It's not easy to have an app there but not have it show up in Launchpad. Well, Launchpad by default is going to show every app in your Application folder. Now I'm often asked how can I remove an app from Launchpad. So just click, wait until everything is in that mode, and then drag out. You can move apps out of folders just as easily. Then if you ever want to go and launch one of those apps you now click on the folder and then you click on the app. So you can collect a bunch of apps so that they only take up one slot here in Launchpad. But it's easier to put into folders once everything is in this mode. The easiest way to do that is click and wait until everything wiggles even though you can drag before that. You can now drag other apps into that folder. You can then name that folder and then you have this little folder with those two apps in it. So if I take one app, drag it to another and drop it on it, it will create a Folder. You could also group apps together in Folders. If you want to put them on another screen simply move to the right or to the left and wait and it will scroll over to that screen. But it's easier if you click, wait for everything to wiggle and go into this mode and now they seem to move a little bit better and you have a lot more control over where they go. So to move apps around you can simply click and drag them around and move them. Now you can arrange apps in any way you want in Launchpad. To launch an app all you need to do is click the icon and it will launch the app. Another way to do it is using Command Right Arrow and Left Arrow. I could also swipe with two fingers on a trackpad to go between them or one finger across an Apple mouse to go between these pages. I could click on anyone of those dots to jump to that page. Here I've got three dots telling me I have 3 pages of apps. You will probably have multiple pages of these apps. When you bring up Launchpad you'll see a grid showing the apps that you have installed on your Mac. There are other ways to bring up Launchpad as well that I'll get to in a few minutes. If you have a Mac with a Touch Bar then Launchpad is a button in the Control strip. Note that on newer Macs the F4 key is a shortcut for Spotlight. Now if you have in System Preferences a certain setting in Keyboard, Keyboard, and this checkbox here set On then you have to hold the fn key when pressing F4 to bring it up. If you press that that brings up Launchpad. For instance you probably have a dedicated key on your keyboard, the F4 key. There are other ways to bring up Launchpad as well. Click on it there and it brings up Launchpad. You'll find it in the Dock, most likely all the way to the left next to the Finder. So Launchpad is a dedicated app on your Mac for launching other apps. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 900 supporters. Today let me show you the basics of using Launchpad on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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