macOS 26 Tahoe quietly retired Launchpad and replaced it with a Spotlight-style app sheet a lot of people don’t actually want. LaunchOS rebuilds the original Launchpad almost pixel-for-pixel — paginated grid, drag-to-reorder, folder groups — with global hotkey access, right-click menus, and hideable apps the original never had. If you’d built muscle memory around F4 and a four-finger pinch, this gives it back without rolling back the OS.