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Jan 10, 2020 Click “Launchpad” in the Dock Find the app icon that you want to remove Press and hold the Alt (⌥) key, or click and hold the app icon until it jiggles Click the cross next to the app that you want to remove and click “Delete” to remove the app and app icon immediately form your Mac. Method 1: Remove apps using Launchpad. Another manual way to delete macOS Catalina apps from your Mac is using the Launchpad. Here’s how it works: Click Launchpad icon in your Mac’s Dock. Find the macOS Catalina that you want to delete. Click and hold the macOS Catalina icon’s until it starts shaking. Click X in the top-left corner of the.

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Launchpad is the central location where you can see which apps are on your Mac and launch them as needed. However, if you’ve downloaded a LOT of software, the Launchpad window — or windows — may get cluttered quickly. Luckily, you can group apps together in folders in the Launchpad view.

How to Open Launchpad

There are two ways to open Launchpad:

1. The first is by clicking its spaceship icon in the Dock.
2. The second is to use the Control Strip on your Mac (if it has a Touch Bar).

If you don’t see the Launchpad icon:

1. Tap the backward arrow (<) on the Touch Bar.
2. Tap the buttons in the expanded Control Strip to access additional settings and macOS features like Launchpad.

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How to Rearrange App Icons in Launchpad

Once Launchpad is open, you can move apps you want to group closer together on the same page or transfer some to another page.

1. On your Mac, select the icon of the app you want to move/drag.
2. Press and hold the trackpad or mouse while you drag the item to a new location.
3. Release the trackpad or mouse to drop the item in the new location.

Now you’re ready to create an app folder.

How to Create an App Folder in Launchpad

1. Click and hold an app’s icon until it starts wriggling.
2. Drag the app on top of another app you wish to put into the same folder until a white box appears around both apps.
3. Let go of the icon.

Voila! A new folder is created, which you can name appropriately. For instance, I created a folder called “Games” in which to store games downloaded from Apple Arcade.

Now you can drag and drop apps into the new folder to your heart’s content, as I have with my Games folder.

To remove an app from a folder, drag it out of the folder.

These instructions apply, for the most part, to other versions of macOS besides Catalina. However, I’m using Catalina on a 16-inch MacBook Pro for this tutorial.

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It is famously easier to delete an app on a Mac than on a PC, but there are different ways to do it, and there are still problems to watch out for. Plus there's the curious case of the apps you can never delete.

You can declutter your Mac, but sometimes you just want to delete apps. In which case, drag an app to the Trash, then choose Empty Trash, and you're done.

It would be great if that were all it took to delete an app on an iMac — and it so very nearly is. The majority of the time, it truly is all that you absolutely have to do.

The way Mac applications work means that it's common for them to be one single file or maybe one single folder in Applications. Simply dragging them to the trash will get rid of them.

Just, not for all apps, and even apps that will go gentle into that good night tend to leave bits behind. Typically it's just some settings files within your Mac's Library and they take up little space. If you're deleting to reclaim all the space you can, though, this adds up — and you need third-party apps to get rid of them.

Before you install an app to help you with deleting apps, though, here are the two main ways to delete anything.

1. Quit the app
2. Find it in the Finder and click once to select it
3. Drag it from Applications to the Trash, or
4. Press Command-Delete, or
5. Choose File, Move to Trash
6. Choose Finder, Empty Trash, or
7. Right click on the Trash and choose Empty Trash
8. If prompted, confirm you're sure you want to empty the Trash
9. Restart your Mac

You may get error messages when you try to delete a running app, but with certain exceptions detailed below, you can always confirm you want to delete them. Depending on the app, you may be asked for a username and password, or prompted to confirm on your Apple Watch.

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1. Quit the app if it's running
2. Open Launchpad by clicking on it in the Dock, or
3. Open it by clicking on Launchpad in Applications, or
4. Pinch thumb and fingers together on trackpad, or
5. Use Spotlight to open Launchpad
6. Swipe to the application you want
7. Click and hold on any app until they all jiggle, or
8. Hold down the Option key
9. If the app gets an X in a white button, click on that
10. Confirm you want to delete it

This is the much more visual way of deleting apps, and it's the one that may be immediately familiar if you're used to using iOS. However, it doesn't let you delete every app.

In fact, in our testing, it lets you delete very few. The only major applications you can definitely delete this way are those made by Apple, such as Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.

Many smaller utility-style applications can be deleted this way too, but you can't get rid of Chrome, any Adobe Creative Cloud apps, or Zoom. For those, and the majority of apps, you need to do it manually via moving them to the Trash.

No matter what method you use, you can't delete certain apps from the Mac — and some of them are surprising. Chess, for instance, will just ignore any attempt to delete it. You may not even have realized that your Mac comes with a Chess game, but it's holding onto it forever.

In previous versions of macOS, when you tried to delete Chess, you would get an error message saying that it was required for the system. That's no longer the case as macOS Catalina just won't let you delete it.

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There is arguably a way around it if you disabled security features such as System Integrity Protection, but if you do that because you read it here, and it goes wrong, we'll deny everything.

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It's a good idea to restart your Mac. It's also, though, a very good idea to have a third-party utility such as Hazel.

Hazel is one of those Mac utilities that do very many things. But one of them is that when you delete an app, it tells you what other files are being left behind — and offers to delete them for you.

That's particularly good because you can see what's going to be deleted. There are disk space-saving apps that may remove this kind of file, but you won't know they've done it.

This isn't likely to be a problem but one type of file that gets left on your Mac is often a preferences one. If you reinstall the app later, it should pick up that preferences file and be configured the way you want.

If it is that you just need the space now and will want to reinstall the app later, you can save time and effort by dragging that app to another disk. For instance, if you have an external drive connected to your Mac, you can drag an app straight from there to that other SSD.

What's more, you can run the app from there, too. So if your Applications folder is taking up a lot of space on your Mac, you can split it. It's still best to have your most-used apps on your Mac's drive, but most apps will launch from any connected drive.

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