“Apple has quietly disabled Dashboard by default in the seventh beta of OS X El Capitan, an unsurprising move given the ten-year-old widget feature on Mac has not been updated in over four years and looks increasingly poised for retirement,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “Dashboard was similarly disabled by default on OS X Yosemite.”
“The feature can be re-enabled by opening System Preferences > Mission Control and choosing ‘As Space’ from the Dashboard drop-down menu,” Rossignol reports. “Then, tap on the Dashboard key on your keyboard to bring up the window.”
Rossignol reports, “Dashboard was introduced on OS X Tiger in 2005…”
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MacDailyNews Take: For the heck of it, on one of our Yosemite Macs, we just fired up Dashboard… for the first time this year.
Is anybody going to miss Dashboard?