Dashboard applications supplied with macOS include a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad users can create or download their own.īefore Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, when Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground. These are intended to be simple applications that do not take time to launch. Dashboard is a discontinued application for Apple Inc.'s macOS operating systems, used as a secondary desktop for hosting mini-applications known as widgets.
