Some of the typical Dashboard apps supplied with Mojave include a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad.Īdditional ones can be downloaded from the web or created from scratch.ĭashboard widgets use web technologies to deliver snippets of information without having to load a full-on app. There’s also a customizable global hotkey for quick launching of Dashboard from anywhere in the system. In macOS Mojave and earlier editions, Dashboard can be activated like any other app, from the Dock, Launchpad or Spotlight. Now that the WebKit team has decided to drop support for Dashboard widgets, the feature is unlikely to make a comeback in a future beta of macOS Catalina.ĭashboard debuted in Mac OS X Tiger which released in April 2005 14 years ago.

The feature was removed from the inaugural developer beta of MacOS Catalina 10.15. MacRumors points us to a recent changelog spotted by Japanese blog Mac Otakara that confirms the removal of Dashboard support from the latest build of WebKit. Dashboard is no longer present in macOS Catalina, and now Apple’s confirmed it’ll be going away after fourteen years because it’s been discovered that Dashboard support has been completely removed from WebKit, Apple’s open-sourced rendering engine powering Safari.

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