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Re:macOS Tahoe by viraptor on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:29PM (#45256208)
Because I vaguely remember that one icon I use every other month, but can't recall the name. The icons are also ordered by installation time, so it's easy to jump to the most recent ones.

I use it rarely, but sometimes I'm happy it's there.

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Re:macOS Tahoe by etempleton on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:10PM (#45256508)
Exactly this. Most of the time I use spotlight like everyone else.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by derefr on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:06AM (#45258579)
> The icons are also ordered by installation time, so it's easy to jump to the most recent ones.

If I had this need, it wouldn’t even occur to me to solve it with Launchpad; I would just go to /Applications in Finder and sort by “Date Added”. (Which is a non-default column, but a very helpful one, so the series of gestures to enable it for a given folder is almost reflexive to me now.)

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Re:macOS Tahoe by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:35AM (#45259640)
That only really works if you have a totally flat Applications hierarchy. Even by default, macOS creates a "Utilities" subfolder.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by viraptor on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:54AM (#45260156)
That's: 1 get the menu, 2 Finder, 3 go to applications, 4 View > Show View Options, 5 sort by popup, 6 choose date added, 7 actually look for the app.

Compared to: 1 - 4-finger pinch, 2 look for the app.

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