How to hide the Dock on MacOS

hidedock.md

I never use the Dock and all it does for me is come in the way when I'm resizing windows or clicking on stuff I can't access using just my keyboard.

Here's a way to hide the Dock so it doesn't get in the way anymore.

Run the following commands in the terminal.

# Hide Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock

And if you want it back run the following commands.

# Restore Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool false && killall Dock
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE && killall Dock

Thanks to @joonaspaakko for a great write-up.

At the time of writing seems to work on MacOS Big Sur 11.2.1

OMG Dock is so stupid. THANK YOU!!!! Works on lates MacOS 13.0.1 too!

Made Ruby script to toggle it if you want. Symlink to /usr/local/bin/ etc.
https://gist.github.com/lacostenycoder/1de15cb0f8a6b440da830ac126d0bc32

I'm not surprised there are bugs to this workaround by now. I personally just disabled the ⌥⌘D keyboard shortcut and haven't seen my dock in years. 😇

Thank you so much 🫶🏻

thanks!