Many Mac users like to use a feature that automatically hides and shows the Dock in MacOS, which appears when the cursor moves to the bottom of the screen and disappears when the cursor leaves that area. This offers a more minimalistic experience and user interface and also optimizes screen real estate by hiding the dock. This can be especially useful for Mac laptop users where screen space is more desirable.
Let’s see how you can set the Dock on MacOS to hide and show automatically. This particular guide applies to macOS Sonoma & Ventura, the latest Mac operating systems.
Trick to automatically hide (and show) the dock on MacOS Sonoma & Ventura
- Open “System Preferences” from the Apple menu
- Go to “Desktop & Dock”
- Find the setting for “Automatically hide and show the dock” and toggle it to ON
- Exit system setup.
Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen and once the cursor enters this space, the Dock will appear.
Move the cursor away from the dock and the dock will disappear again.
You can also toggle the auto-hide/show dock setting on and off at any time using the MacOS keyboard shortcut: Command(⌘)+Option+D
Many things that have changed since the migration to System Settings outside of System Preferences, where you make settings changes in the Dock, have also changed in macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, and later. Meantime, older versions of Mac OS X continue to use System Preferences and have a different approach to accessing these settings accordingly.
One handy way to customize the dock’s auto-hide is to use HiDock to set custom dock settings specific to using a different display, which is extremely useful for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro users. With this tool, you can have the Dock automatically hide/show when using the internal display, but for the external display, it can be always visible, for example.
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