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More custom options for the Dock
Mar 13, 2025
How to use Dock magnification and Dock hiding
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so by default the dock lives down at the
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bottom of the screen here and also by
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default the icons in large as you Mouse
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over them um that makes it easier to see
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what you're pointing at but sometimes it
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also makes it harder to point at the
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thing that you actually want because of
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course the icons are moving around all
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the time
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you can switch this on and off though if
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you go up to the top left
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choose the Apple menu
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and go to the dock item here you'll see
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a number of little helpful controls
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the first one that we'll look at today
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is turn magnification off if you select
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that
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then now you can move over the dock and
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nothing will jump about
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another command up here in the top left
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is turn hiding on
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this is basically a helpful way of
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keeping the dock out of sight when you
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don't need it what it does is it makes
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the dock disappear but don't worry the
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dock is still there it hasn't
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disappeared it's just shifted out of
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sight and if you move your mouse pointer
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down to the bottom of the screen it
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appears again and you can use it as
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normal
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and when you leave it disappears
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let's bring it back into view
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one more trick you can do with this menu
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is to change the position of the dock
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you don't have to have it at the bottom
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of your screen you can position it on
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the left or on the right hand side so
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let's move it up to the left
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and it looks like that
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it does look different it doesn't have
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the same 3D Shelf
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look that it Sports when it's down the
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bottom
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similarly
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we can stick it over on the right it
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does the same thing still works in the
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same way and you can still if you like
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have let's have a look hiding on
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and you can still have magnification on
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if you like and then it will appear As
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you move over to the side and the icons
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will enlarge in as necessary
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there you go
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that is how you can customize
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your dog
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