Many are the users who wait for the Christmas season because they have a little more free time or because it is the moment in which they are going to enjoy vacations to tune up their Mac. When I speak of tune up the Mac, it is to order a little all documents, extract those that we no longer need to an external storage disk or even do a cleanup of installed applications.
Today we are going to show you two simple commands with which you will be able to put in order everything that has to do with the applications present both in the Dock and in the Launchpad. They are not commands with which to delete applications and is that what you will get with them is a restart of both the Dock and the Launchpad.
One of the things that macOS users love is the existence of the Dock and the Launchpad. The Dock has been present in Mac systems since its inception and as the different versions of it have happened, it has evolved to what we have today. The Dock is the place of the desk where we find all those applications that we usually use in the usual way and that is how we save time when looking for them to open them.
The Launchpad, for its part, arrived much later than the Dock and is nothing more than an inheritance of the iOS system and that the applications installed in the system are grouped in separate screens in which you can configure folders and the position of the same applications within it.
Well, there are times when we have installed so many applications or we have moved both the site applications within the Launchpad as well as in the Dock that we need to re-order them. Well, that's why we wanted to share this article with you today and that is with two simple commands you will be able to return to the initial state of the same so you can make a new classification of the applications more in line with what you need at the moment.
To restart the Dock, that is, the applications that macOS has after its installation appear, you must open the Terminal and type the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock
For its part, in order to delete the entire folder structure that exists within the Launchpad as well as the location of the applications in it, you must execute this other command:
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall dock
So don't wait any longer and put these two commands into practice so that you can enjoy a new-looking Dock and Launchpad again.