Dashboard Feature Eliminated in macOS Catalina

[Te0SX]

I am still using it daily, have some nice widgets to convert money fast and different others. Shame, but I do see that coming. Notification bar widgets can replace Dashboard but scrolling down isn't fun.

*I don't get why some people are enthusiastic about this, even if they didn't use, did this little feature slowed down their ssd or something lol. Chill guys.

 

[RedDrink]

I forgot it still existed in Mojave! I miss that ripple effect when you'd drop a new Dashboard item in.

 

[Porco]

I will admit I never use it anymore, but I did used to love it.

 

[psingh01]

I still use the stock and weather widgets. Just move my cursor to a hot corner and I can quickly see it. Why remove it?

 

[therunningman]

Darn..I use Dashboard every day. Hopefully there will be a developer out there that will write a replacement similar to the way "Rainmeter" replaces Windows 7's sidebar gadgets.

 

[tha_man]

With one tap I can get a glance at the calendar, weather, time in different time zones, CPU/fan stats, and even an astronomy picture of the day. Simple, fluid, and not constrained to a thin strip of desktop space that requires me to scroll.

You should check out iStat Menus. I stopped using dashboard with multiple widgets after I got this app (and no need for notification centre either).

 

[locovaca]

Will definitely be missed... I use the sticky notes for everything but I guess I'll have to switch over to stickies on the desktops. Tracking deliveries and countdowns were always nice too...

I have no connection to these guys but I’ve been using this app for 2 years now and have nothing but high praise for it.

https://deliveries.app/

 

[bluecoast]

After all the fuss & hoopla surrounding it when it was released years ago — now denigrated to the garbage heap.
Makes you wonder what other current hyped stuff will be in the crosshairs

3D Touch.

 

[therunningman]

Amiga forever, dude!!!

 

[aviddk]

Me? I love the calculator and the conversion widgets and use both constantly. I thought the Mojave fn, F12 shortcut and flyover implementation made them eminently useful.

 

[haleyp]

It takes them 5 years to implement useful 3rd-party things like night shift, key swiping, ipad as monitor, and they're always removing key functionality, like play history in the music app. Very frustrating.

 

[icymountain]

It is a bit unclear what I will use instead, in order to replace world clocks and istatNano that I was using every day basically...

 

[Carlanga]

And nothing of value is lost.

spoken like someone that either is new in the game or never used it. I use it everyday

 

[jbellanca]

I'll miss it. I use dashboard multiple times every day, but almost never use notification center. Oh well. I especially loved the Deliveries widget (which, I know, has a dashboard app) and I used to love RadarInMotion for weather maps, though when that stopped being supported I added a web clip to show weather maps which was awesome.

 

[Robert.Walter]

This was about the last redoubt for skeuomorphism...

Not going to be missed...

TBH I thought it already disappeared a few years ago.

 

[Omega Mac]

Notification center works the same way for me

Funny, I never associated notification center as the replacement and your comment, so obvious, has made me realise why I liked it, because it served as a cognitive-break.

It took you out of the OS for a moment (or task), gave you a more real world view, less cluttered (akin to game menu) and broke your focus in a soft transitional way - akin to looking out a window for a quick visual break.

Notification seems like an annoying noise that happens on the right (before it was a thing that rammed your desktop off centre most obnoxiously.)

It's the definition of a dynamic.

I never heard of skeuomorphism until they were side-lining it and needed a label to demonise.

Dynamics are important.

 

[Appleman3546]

They sort-of replaced it anyways with the notification widgets. Just seemed duplicative...

 

[Darth Tulhu]

Why are people happy this is gone?!

You didn't HAVE to use it.

However, if you DID use it often (like me), you are right to be upset.

Just one less differentiator keeping me from giving Windows a fair shake.

I want to stay with Apple, but they JUST. KEEP. REMOVING. THINGS. I. LOVE.

EDIT:
TBH, I'm not going ANYWHERE. There's STILL too much good stuff in Apple's camp. But man, these last few years have been a painful exercise in letting go.

 

[Candlelight]

Don't think I ever used it.

 

[sniffies]

I used Dashboard more than 3D Touch on my iPhone

 

[MoJoRo]

I remember using it decently often at some point, but I have had it turned off in system preferences for a few years now. I'm sort of surprised so many people still use it. I'm actually hoping they get rid of LaunchPad too. Now THAT'S a worthless piece of junk.

 

[TMRJIJ]

I keep forgetting that thing is still in my Applications folder. Oh well, RIP I guess

 

[racerhomie]

I use it for quick currency conversion. Its sad Apple has killed it off. I will only get a new Mac once Apple goes ARM on Mac. Personally iPadOS attracts me quite a bit.

 

[Hieveryone]

Good riddance! Haha I never use it. In fact I deleted the widgets from there. I prefer side bar to access much of the same info if not more. Such as weather.

I feel for those who use it though. I understand some people may really like the feature.

 

[eatrains]

Sad. It's better than the notification center widgets.