| Tip 1 | Make Launchpad Bigger (or Smaller) |
By default, Launchpad displays your app icons in a grid that’s usually 5x8 icons in size.
By reducing or increasing the size of this grid, which can be achieved by adjusting a few secret settings, the icons will increase or decrease in size to fill the space, allowing you to fit more of them in (or fewer!).
However, if the icons increase in size, this will mean more pages of icons within Launchpad because fewer app icons will now be able to fit on each page. Accordingly, decreasing the size of icon grid will mean more can fit on a page.
There’s another side effect too—the number of apps icons that can fit within a Launchpad folder is defined by the grid size setting. So, if you have fewer icons on-screen, ...
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