Now I'm just going to drag the Applications folder to the right side of the Dock. Go up one level so I can see the Applications folder. What if we wanted to add everything in here to the Dock. What if you wanted to have them all there? Well, let's go to a new Finder window and then go to the Applications folder. So only your most frequently used applications are going to be in the Dock. After all you only have a limited amount of space here for applications. But what are the best items to add there. So you probably already know that you could add your own custom items to the right side of the Dock. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign.
MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Today let me show you ten useful things that you could add to your Mac Dock. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. However, most of these options are the same ones you can easily access just by right-clicking the dock.Check out 10 Useful Things To Add To the Mac Dock at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. Application icons you remove from the dock can always be launched from the Applications folder in the Finder, from Launchpad, or from Spotlight search.Ī few other small settings are available in the Dock Preferences window you can access by clicking “Dock Preferences” in the menu that appears when you right-click the dock or heading to System Preferences > Dock. To rearrange the icons, drag and drop the icons. If an application isn’t running, you can also drag-and-drop its icon from the Applications folder in the Finder onto your dock. To keep an icon in the dock so you can use it to launch the application even when it isn’t running, Ctrl-click, right-click, or two-finger-click the applications icon and select Options > Keep in Dock. To remove an application icon from your dock, you can either drag and drop it off the dock or Ctrl-click, right-click, or two-finger-click it and select Options > Remove from Dock.Īpplication icons appear in the dock when the application is running. (If you have the dock vertically on one side of your screen, drag and drop it to just above the trash can.) To do this, open a Finder window and then drag and drop the folder onto the right side of the dock, to the left of the trash can. You can pin folders to your dock for easier access. Note that the more icons you add to the dock, the smaller it’ll get automatically, so you can only adjust this to a certain point depending on how many icons you have. To control the size of the dock, select “Dock Preferences” in the menu and adjust the Size slider. To change this to another animation, hover over the “Minimize Using” option and select “Scale Effect”. For example, you might want to move the dock to the left or right sides of the screen to gain more vertical space on a MacBook with a widescreen monitor.īy default, your Mac uses the “Genie” when you minimize a window by clicking the yellow button in its window titlebar. Just hover over the “Position on Screen” option in the menu and select “Left”, “Right”, or “Bottom”.
You can also change the position of the dock on your screen. To control how much icons are magnified, select “Dock Preferences” in the menu and adjust the “Magnification” slider.
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