

You should see six categories on your screen: Click Start Scan to see the list of Mac apps and other items to delete. Open MacKeeper and select Smart Uninstaller from the left sidebarĢ. Make sure you check the list of all the apps installed on your MacBook or iMac before you start deleting apps:ġ. Smart Uninstaller wipes them clean for good-along with useless widgets, plugins, browser extensions, and much more.

Even if you know how to delete apps on your Mac manually, pesky app leftovers will still be there but with MacKeeper, you can remove these leftovers easily. The setting you encounter likely depends on if your Mac system software was updated from prior versions with previous settings, or if you did a clean install of a modern release.The Smart Uninstaller feature removes Mac apps completely to free-up extra disk space. Note that some users will find Dashboard disabled by default, and some users will find Dashboard enabled as a Space by default.

If Dashboard is setup as an Overlay with widgets on the desktop, you just click into the transparent section of Dashboard to exit and close it. Hitting Function + F12 keys will usually close Dashboard on the Mac with modern versions of system software.Īdditionally, you can click the little arrow button in the corner of the Dashboard screen to close it on Mac and enter the next desktop “Space”. Some users also may find themselves inadvertently in Dashboard in macOS, and when it’s activated as a Space it can be less than obvious to exit. * Alternatively if you don’t want to turn Dashboard off, you can choose “As Space” if you want Dashboard to appear as a virtual desktop style unique Space, or “As Overlay” if you want the Dashboard to hover widgets over the desktop when activated, which is my personal favorite and how the feature behaved in prior versions of Mac OS. Whether or not you use Dashboard and want it turned off is entirely up to you and how you use your Mac. Personally I think Dashboard and the collection of widgets is much more useful than Launchpad, and I still actively use the feature for checking the weather, quick conversions and dictionary lookups, and other functionalities. With “Off” chosen the Dashboard feature will no longer be active at all, and if you hit Function+F12 or whatever keystroke you chose to activate the feature it will not activate if the feature is disabled this way.
