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 **t been updated in over four years and looks increasingly poised for retirement. Dashboard was similarly disabled by Default on OS X Yosemite.
While a fewwebsites claim that Apple has ******* Dashboard from OS X El Capitan entirely, the feature can be re-enabled by opening System Preferences > Mission Control and choosing "As Space" from the Dashboard drop-down menu. Then, tap on the Dashboard key on your keyboard to bring up the window.
Dashboard was introduced on OS X Tiger in 2005 and acts as a secondary desktop for widgets such as a calculator, calendar, clock, weather, stocks, sticky **tes, mini games, dictionary, flight tracker and more. Widgets can be added or ******* from Dashboard by clicking on the plus or minus buttons in the bottom-left corner.