As I said, it’s not a perfect replacement, but take some time setting up folders and tweaking the settings and I think you’ll find it works well. And you can’t complain about the price.

A Few Other Alternatives

Now, there are a few other alternatives to keep in mind. Apple added a new “Applications” button to the dock, which opens Spotlight to the “Applications” section. This is an alphabetical list of your applications, both from your Mac and your iPhone, which you can scroll or search to browse. You can hide the iPhone apps if you want; just click the three dots in the top right corner and you’ll see that option. This works well enough, though the lack of folders, and the missing full screen option, are the main reasons you might not want this.

Another option is to drag the “Applications” folder from your Finder to the bottom section of your dock. Click this folder and you can scroll through all of your applications. You can also organize applications in actual folders using the Finder if you want to organize them. It’s a bit of a workaround, but it’s worth trying if you’d rather not install any third party software.

Speaking of third party software: LaunchNext is another popular Launchpad alternative, which notably can import your folders and settings from Launchpad. The problem is you can’t use it without working around the macOS security settings, something I generally don’t recommend doing. I also found LaunchNext a touch on the slow side. Still, it’s worth looking into if you’re a power user, as it’s a great deal more customizable than Launchie.

There are also a few alternatives that bring back the actual Launchpad application from older versions of macOS, but they require a lot of hacking and have a tendency to break with macOS updates—I couldn’t find one alternative that was working at the time I was writing this. Even if that changes, you’re probably better off using one of the above approaches—it’s just going to be more consistent.

It’s understandable if you’re not happy Apple removed a feature you like, but at least there are alternatives out there. Try a few out. One of them is bound to work for you.

It’s this creeping surveillance that gives some students pause, even those who told The 74 they otherwise support vape detectors in bathrooms. The possibility of unknown capabilities with the sensors is “very scary to me” said Moledina, the Austin teen, who worries about a future where bathrooms come with cameras.

“Just knowing that there is vape smoke in the bathroom doesn’t really help you because the administrators already know it’s happening, and just by knowing that it’s there isn’t going to help them find out who is doing it,” he said. “So my concern is that, at the end of the day, we’re going to end up having cameras in bathrooms, which is definitely not what we want.”

Minneapolis educators have used surveillance cameras in conjunction with the sensors to identify students for vaping in the bathrooms, discipline logs show.

In February, for example, a Roosevelt High School senior was suspended for a day based on accusations they hit a weed vape in the bathroom. Officials reviewed footage from a surveillance camera outside the bathroom and determined the student was “entering and exiting the bathroom during the timeframe that the detector went off.” They were searched, and administrators found “a marijuana vape, an empty glass jar with a weed smell and a baggie with weed shake in it.”

That same month, educators referred a Camden High School student to a drug and alcohol counselor for “vaping in the single stall bathrooms.”

“After I reviewed the camera it does show [a] student leaving out that same stall bathroom,” campus officials reported.

Gutierrez, the 18-year-old from Arizona, said she quit vaping after she was suspended and now copes with depression through positive means like painting. What she didn’t do, however, was quit because she received help at school for the mental health challenges that led her to vape in the first place.

She stopped vaping while she was suspended, she said, because she was away from her friends and lacked access. She was frightened into further compliance, Gutierrez recalled, by the online lessons depicting vaping as a gross, gooey purple monster that would poison her relationships.

“Yes I stopped, but it wasn’t a good stop,” she said. “I didn’t get no support. I didn’t get no counseling. I stopped because I was scared.”