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Alternative would be massively improving Launchpad to work much more like SpringBoard, and allow you to set that in place of your desktopīut forcing them into Notification Center on MacOS is poorly considered. Widgets need a permanent home in the Mac UI, not hidden off in a Notification Center nobody looks at anyway. They persist for a few reboots, then sometime in the middle of the day they’ll spontaneously disappear again. My Mac frequently forgets all my widgets. They generally have fewer features or display less information than their iOS counterparts, despite having access to the Mac’s larger display. I was not a heavy user of Dashboard, but I miss it because the new iOS-style widgets are a huge regression. Even on a Pro Display XDR, you get three visible notifications. Sadly, they all got stuffed into the slide-out Notification Center user interface

Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing developers to bring their iOS widgets over to the Mac in macOS Big Sur. If you enjoyed this tip, you might also appreciate some other Mission Control tips and Dashboard tips too.Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Of course you can also disable Dashboard again if you decide you don’t need the feature after all, that’s just a matter of returning to the Mission Control settings and selecting “Off” as the option. Why it’s turned off is anyones guess, but it’s that way even on a clean install of macOS Mojave, so even if you had it turned off before but forgot about it, that won’t impact going forward, it just needs to be manually enabled nowadays. While Dashboard is disabled by default in MacOS Mojave for whatever reason, it’s obviously still fairly easy to enable.

Access Dashboard as usual (often F12 key, or via Mission Control)Īccessing and dismissing Dashboard can be done through a number of ways, including key shortcut (typically F12 or FN + F12), swiping gestures, Mission Control like any other desktop space, or a Hot Corner, depending on how you have it configured.

Look for “Dashboard” and pull down the dropdown menu next to that, choosing either “Space” or “Overlay”.

Open the System Preferences via the  Apple menu.

Here is how you can turn on Dashboard in Mac OS: Dashboard as a Space puts it alongside other virtual desktops in Mission Control, whereas Dashboard as an Overlay places it hovering over the current desktop or app. You can use Dashboard in MacOS as a Space or as an Overlay.