But if you no longer have use for the once-exciting feature, you can disable it to both simplify your user experience and potentially save a small amount of system resources. The Finder and the Trash are permanent members of the Dock.
If you still use Dashboard, the good news is that Apple appears content to let it silently live on, even in the latest developer builds of OS X Yosemite. Mac OS X and macOS have a few restrictions about which items you can remove. Most of the information that was once so impressively obtained via Dashboard - stock prices, sports scores, weather updates - is now usually delivered via smartphones, tablets, and new OS X features like Notification Center. The app’s competitor, Konfabulator, is long gone, and Apple has neglected its widget download page. NOTE: Some apps need a slightly different method of removal. See the Standard removal methods section below for more details. If you are satisfied with the default Calendar app on Mac, but just. To remove a macOS app, drag the app to the trash. You can use Dashboard to deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster. If you click on Hide Fitbit Connect, it will remove the icon from the menu bar.
Use the special tool, App Cleaner & Uninstaller, to delete apps from the Launchpad correctly. If youd like to uninstall Fitbit Connect from your Mac, check out these instructions to know how to delete the app. How to remove apps from Launchpad on a Mac. Or just read on to learn the easiest way to remove an app from the Launchpad and from Mac in general. On the Settings screen, look for an entry that refers to the Menu bar something like Show in. From our previous article, you can learn three possible ways to completely uninstall apps from a Mac. Open the stubborn App and navigate to Settings screen of the App. See the Standard removal methods section below for more details. For such apps (mostly third party apps), you will have to access the settings screen of the program and find a way to remove the stubborn icons from the Menu bar of your Mac. Repeat the process for all other processes with a similar name. Click that name, then click the 'X' button at the top of the window to quit that process. Search the list for a process with the name of the application you are trying to remove from the Dock.
Now 10 years later, Dashboard is an afterthought for most OS X users. To remove a Windows app, use Control Panel or Add or Remove Programs. Go to Applications Utilities and open Activity Monitor. Mac fans marveled at the slick interface for displaying useful widgets, and the company quickly opened widget development to third parties.
When Apple introduced OS X 10.4 Tiger during WWDC 2004, a major selling point of the new operating system was Dashboard.