How to Hide the Dock on the Mac

If you have a Mac, you are fully aware that the Dock is an essential part of the macOS experience; It allows us to launch apps and folders quickly, access recent or favorite items quickly, or access the Finder. However, depending on the number of applications and folders or stacks you’ve pinned to it, and also on the size of your computer screen, the Dock may take up too much space. In that case, today we will tell you how to hide the Dock in macOS.

By default, the Application Dock is always visible at the bottom of the screen, although we can change its position to any other part of it to adapt it to the use we make of our applications. Depending on whether we use it connected to a monitor, be it an iMac or a MacBook, it is likely that the only thing the Dock does is take away space on the screen.

But not only space, it is also a source of distractions when an application is updated, we receive a notification, an email … even if we have notifications deactivated, we will see how the application icon bounces for a few seconds. Fortunately, to avoid this type of distraction and thus increase the size of the screen, we can automatically hide the Dock.

If you’ve gotten used to using keyboard shortcuts for just about everything, including opening apps, the Dock is likely more of a nuisance than a help, so the less time it is visible the better. If we want to hide the Dock automatically, that is, that it only be shown only when we place the mouse over the area where it is located, we must carry out the following steps.

Method #1:

If for some reason, sometimes the Dock hinders your work in macOS, it is possible to hide it from view and leave the desktop completely clear. To do this, all you have to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Apple menu ( ) → System Preferences → Dock