Good design is at the heart of everything we cover here at Beautiful Pixels. We’ve long been admirers of app icons (so long, App Icon Gallery). We often come across amazing app icons on the App Store such as the icons for Pixtiss or even Shortcuts. Downloading these icons has never been easy on iPhone or iPad, unless you know how to use Siri Shortcuts to download app icons from the App Store.
I’m about to recommend a shortcut that has a minor limitations. This shortcut will allow you to download app icons for any app that is on the App Store or on the Mac App Store. If you want to download the icons for first-party apps such as App Store itself, this shortcut won’t help because it needs the app to be listed on one of these app stores. (I know, I was hoping for an icon-ception too).
How to Download App Icons From App Store
The App Icon Downloader shortcut is your best friend if you want to download app icons. If you’re not sure how to set up and use shortcuts, please check out this post first.
Left-click your mouse anywhere on the screen of your Mac. This will reveal the Go Option in the top menu bar of your. Next, click on the Go option in the top menu-bar of your Mac. While you are still on the Go option, press and hold the Option key on your Mac and then click on the. Hi, I have installed Windows 10 dual boot Mac OS10. How does one display the boot camp icon on the system tray? Is there also and icon on the Mac side and if so where?
- Download App Icon Downloader shortcut.
- Open the Shortcuts app, go to the My Shortcuts tab, and tap App Icon Downloader to run the shortcut.
- Now enter the name of the app (Hint: Try ReadKit, which has a lovely icon on the Mac App Store).
- Select the device — iPhone, iPad, or Mac — from the list. For ReadKit, select Mac.
- Tap the name of the app from the search results in the pop-up.
- Now you’ll see the full app icon. Tap Done on the top-left.
- A new pop-up will ask if you want to save the image, send it, or mask it. Tap Mask Image to convert this to an iOS-style icon with rounded corners or a circular icon. Alternatively you may save or send it.
Sounds easy, right? It absolutely is. Keep watching this space for more such useful shortcuts. We’ll be publishing more of these a few times every week.
Launchpad is a highly useful feature in macOS. It has been developed to offer an iOS-like approach to managing apps with more convenience on Mac.
At times, you may find some apps missing from the Launchpad interface. Generally, the newly installed third-party apps wouldn’t be showing up. In order to fix the issue or bring back the missing apps, you need to reset the Launchpad.
Apps Not Showing in Launchpad on Mac – How to Bring it Back
Use Default Locations for Applications
Step #1. Starting off, click on the desktop.
Step #2. Next, you need to click on the Go menu located on the menu bar.
Step #3. Now, press and hold the Option key ⌥. Then, click on Library.
Step #4. Next, you have to double click on the Application Support folder.
Step #5. Double click on the Dock folder.
Then, you need to drag all files ending in .db into the trash.
Step #6. Click on the Apple icon at the top left the corner of the screen → Finally, you need to click on Restart → Restart button.
Reset Launchpad
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Launchpad shows the apps which are in the default Applications folder. In case the program is not there, it won’t show up in Launchpad. In this case, move the app out of the folder, log out and log back in to restart Launchpad. Now, move the program back to the Applications folder.
Rebuild the Launchpad Database
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macOS Dock controls the databases which determine the apps to be shown in Launchpad. The databases may have become corrupt. To fix the issue, rebuild the Launchpad databases.
Step #1. Hold the Option key and select Library from the Go menu in the Finder.
Step #2. Open the Application Support → Dock folder and get rid of the files. You should see alphanumeric characters as names.
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Step #3. Now, log out and log back into your account. Now, Dock and Launchpad will reset and scan the Applications folders.
That’s it!
Your Mac will restart. Once it reboots, all of your missing apps would appear in Launchpad. You can use this trick to fix this issue whenever you don’t find some apps in it.
I wish Apple provided a better solution to bring back the disappeared apps in Launchpad in the next version of macOS.
macOS Catalina, in many ways, is a major update. But as they say, nothing is perfect in the world, it can still be improved. As a Mac user, you must have a long list of wish lists that you would want to see in the upcoming version of macOS.
Would you like to share them with us? We would be glad to know them from you in the comments.
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