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

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!