[EagnaIonat]

> The removal of Launchpad was an inexplicable blunder.

It wasn't a blunder. It was absolutely intentional to force users to start using the AI component.

I suspect someone probably pointed out no one would use it because launchpad has a better UX, so they removed it and forced the three finger pinch to launch spotlight.

I'm currently using the following to fix it.

- Bug in preferences that disabling show home also disables 3 finger pinch.

- I'm using AppGrid as my new launchpad.

- Using better touch tool to activate launchpad with 3 finger pinch.

[VerifiedReports]

Yes, because of simply going to my Utils folder in Launchpad, I want to launch Spotlight (someday) and type in:

"Open the SD-card data-recovery application I installed a few years ago"

So elegant!

Oh look, right now on the HN front page is an article about why this sucks: https://tidepool.leaflet.pub/3mcbegnuf2k2i

[blell]

What AI component?

[EagnaIonat]

Spotlight is used to train ML models on Apples servers. There is no private information used and they go through a process to remove PII information.