How To Adjust Dock and Menu Bar Settings In MacBook [Tutorial]

How To Adjust Dock and Menu Bar Settings In MacBook [Tutorial]

On your Mac, use Dock & Menu Bar System Preferences to change the appearance of the Dock and to select items to show in the menu bar and in Control Centre.

On your Mac, use Dock System Preferences to change the size of the icons in the Dock, reposition or hide the Dock and more.

MacOS comes with a small panel along the edge of the screen called the Dock: It lets you quickly access your favorite apps, files, and folders, as well as any actively-running apps. When you save an item to the Dock, you can access it at any time by clicking on it.

By default, most of Apple's built-in apps start with shortcuts saved in the Dock, but you can also remove those shortcuts and add your own. You can also customize the Mac Dock to fit your preferences. Here's how.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
dock settings MacBook
MacBook Air dock settings
dock settings MacBook Pro
mac dock settings
MacBook dock settings
dock preferences mac
macOS dock settings

The Dock on the Mac desktop is a convenient place to access apps and features that you’re likely to use every day—for example, Launchpad and the Trash.

If you’ve installed macOS Big Sur, then you’re probably still getting used to the new look and improved features. But with that, you still need to make your Mac work the best it can for you. Which means, arranging your Dock and menu bar effectively.

Neither of these have significant changes, and most you can figure out on your own. But there are a few new things you should know. So here, we’ll show you how to customize the Dock and menu bar on Mac running Big Sur or later.

This tutorial will apply for MacBook Pro, Air, Mini's running the macOS operating system. This tutorial was performed on a macOS Big Sur system.

[edwardtaylor]

Thank you, you are a lifesaver …, Googled several unhelpful tutorials before finding you … great work

[die_litttt]

i have a question, my files dont show on my desktop unless i click, when i have a non fullscreen tab open it goes to the side meaning whenever i want to drag a file i need to have the app/software open on an other tab not in full screen i then need to pick up the file and use my keyboard to switch tab. this is kind of like stage manager in the way that the window i currently have goes to the side and i need to click it to see it again. once i click on the window the files will dissappear and since i cant click while dragging a file it makes it impossible to upload picture in this manner

[wokeschizo]

nice explaining stuff but you literally zoomed in when it was about showing us what each feature does.

[igorszopinski]

How would I make the memory stick icon when plug in normal size? Mine is gigantic.

[TomisaLami]

How do I get it to stop showing the open windows in the dock?

[zainahmad]

Hi, I have the menu bar set as always on, but on word documents it disappears - do you have a fix for this?

[PJ-eemc]

Great video. Thank you! The one thing that I cannot figure out is this: When I right-click on certain apps in my Dock it reveals a list of files that I have worked with relating to that app. I would like it to stop it from doing this. Can someone please tell me how?

[julienielsen]

The menu bar at the top is so small. Is there a way to fix that to larger?

[hebryndzaconsultingllc]

As a Mac nubie I appreciate the tutorials but this one is out of date. The desktop and dock features are now under the settings selection in the apple menu and the options are different than the ones you showed

[charmaccents]

THank you. THis helped a lot. My bar was hiding itself, not sure why.

[cynthiawilson]

There is no apple icon at the top left of my screen. It disappeared along with the taskbar. This leaves me with no way to get the taskbar back

[robynmasters]

My mac screen suddenly got knocked to the right. My trashcan, the Siri Icon and my folders were half off the screen on the right side. In System Preferences I have Dock Adjustments but not Menu Bar. I went to System Preferences/Display. When I changed from Default to scaled, the larger text brings the menu bar back to normal size but everything else on the screen becomes huge. I went back to default but I have no way to adjust the top menu bar so it's completely on screen. Any Suggestions?

[kennithbob]

what if I only want the dock to disappear in fullscreen, but it goes away whenever I have anything

[kxmu]

genuine question, how do you get the background prefence added ??

[carolynlin]

Simple, Easy & Effective. Thank you 🙏🏼

[danielngyuhin]

may I ask, there s usually a shortcut logo (with nine little squares) on the dock bar on the left hand side which opens a list of applications. how to add this shortcut logo to the bar? thanks

[axtroflqare.]

thank you so much i miscclicked my dock bar and i did not know how to maximize it so this vid helped alot

[rycecote]

Thank you for sharing this. It really helped me a lot.

[sandyfang]

the menu bar is not even showing when you record this video..

[skelfire]

Thanks it helped alot very effective all is detailed.