Change Dock preferences on Mac On your Mac, use Dock System Preferences to change the size of the icons in the, reposition or hide the Dock, and more. To change these preferences, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Dock.
Size Drag the slider to change the Dock size. Magnification Magnify icons when you move the pointer over them. Drag the slider to choose the magnification size. Position on screen Choose to locate the Dock along the left, bottom, or right edge of the screen. Minimize windows using Choose the visual effect used when you minimize a window. Prefer tabs when opening documents Choose when you want documents to open in a tab (instead of in a new window): always, only when you’re working in full screen, or manually (only when you open a document that way). Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize: Minimize an app window to the Dock.
Zoom: Expand a window to fill the space between the Dock and the. If the Dock is along the side of the screen, the window fills the space below the menu bar and to the side of the Dock. Minimize windows into application icon Minimize an app window to the app icon in the Dock. If the option is deselected, the window is minimized to an area in the Dock. Animate opening applications Make icons bounce when you open apps. Automatically hide and show the Dock Hide the Dock when you’re not using it.
To see the hidden Dock, move the pointer to the edge of the screen where the Dock is located. Show indicators for open applications Show a small black dot below an app’s icon in the Dock when the app is open. Show recent applications in Dock Show recently opened apps (if they aren’t already included in the Dock) toward one end of the Dock.
Mac Icon Sets
As familiar as it may look at first glance, there are still tons of subtle changes in. Many options that existed in past versions have been moved, and virtually every system menu received at least a small visual makeover. Take the system tray for an example. It's still right there next to the clock in the bottom corner of your screen, but the easily accessible 'Customize' option is now gone, and the menu itself cannot be right-clicked. As a result, removing excess icons to declutter your system tray involves an entirely new process, which I'll outline below. Step 1: Access the System Tray Settings Menu While the 'Customize' option has been removed from the system tray itself, most of the options that you would've found in this menu on previous versions of Windows are still there.
Hide Bottom Bar
To access these options, start by right-clicking any empty space on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, then selecting the 'Properties' entry.