This allowed many carefully arranged widgets to provide valuable info like time in different time zones for our team members & clients, weather forecasts in many cities we travel to on a regular basis, unit converters and more.īut after macOS Catalina, Dashboard disappeared to our dismay! See, we were using “Hot Corners” to show the Dashboard with a swift move a the magic mouse to the top left corner of our Mac. For example, selecting a specific ticker symbol within the Stocks widget will automatically open its price chart in the Stocks app.Were you a fan of your Dashboard widgets on Mac? Sad to lose them after upgrading to macOS Catalina? You’re not alone…Īpple has decided to get rid of the Dashboard so cherished by some of us around the world but we found alternative solutions that made the trick for us. However, widgets are deep-linked to specific areas of the apps that they come with. Widgets that don’t have a dedicated app-such as the Weather widget-will open in your default web browser instead. Selecting a widget will only launch the relevant app on your Mac. Widgets in macOS Big Sur are purely informative, so you can’t interact with them directly. You can then select it, preview all available widget types, switch between sizes, and add them to the Notification Center just like you would any other built-in stock widget. Once you’ve installed an app with widget support, you’ll find it listed within the Mac’s widgets gallery. The catch it’s often tricky to figure out apps that include widgets, but this macOS Big Sur widgets story from Apple is a good place to start. For example, the calendar and tasks app Fantastical comes with up to a dozen different widget types. But, there are third-party apps in the Mac App Store that feature widget support.
If you just got a new Mac with macOS Big Sur installed, you’ll only see a list of native apps inside the widgets gallery. However, unless you’re looking to add new widgets, there’s no reason to go there just to rearrange them. You can also rearrange widgets inside the widgets gallery itself.
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