

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
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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.

