When I started playing around with the dock I realized that I cannot customize the dock. Whenever I try to drag anything the app just moves back to its previous place. While trying to find a solution to this I also discovered that my iPad doesn’t let me go into edit mode, I.e. when I hold an app it doesn't jiggle.
I've already tried some suggestions on other threads-resetting the device, checking to see if restriction mode is enabled, doing a forced reset-none of this worked for either problem.
Add app shortcuts on the desktop to dock. Step 1: Drag and drop the app shortcut on the desktop to the dock area to add the shortcut to the dock. Method 4 of 4. Add apps to dock using spotlight search. Step 1: Search for the app using the spotlight search. Step 2: Once the app shows up in the spotlight search, drag and drop it to the dock area. Jul 14, 2016 The second way is to drag the application over the LaunchPad icon residing on the dock and release it. This will create a symbolic link to the application without actually moving the application into the Applications folder. It has to be the application itself, not an installer for it, not a folder containing the application, the application. Feb 17, 2017 Other Third-party Apps to Customize Mac Dock. A few years ago, there was no shortage of customization apps for the Mac. But, most of the developers dropped support for them after the introduction of SIP in macOS El Capitan 10.11. Today, there are a limited number of Dock customization apps compatible with macOS Sierra 10.12 with proper product.
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The Dock on your Mac is an important tool. It provides quick access to the apps you use most often, those you’ve used recently, and those you are currently using.
There are a lot of ways that you can customize your Dock. From changing its size and location to enabling magnification and effects, you can make your Dock look and act exactly as you want.
In addition to basic customization options that you can find in your System Preferences, there is another little trick using Terminal that you might like. You can add spaces to your Dock and we’ll show you how.
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- 2 Add spaces to your Dock on Mac
- 3 More space, better organization
Why add spaces to your Dock?
Since you have a Dock full of icons, it can get cluttered. And depending on exactly how many apps you decide to keep in your Dock, it can get really messy.
By adding spaces to your Dock, you can not only put some gaps between the icons, but even use spacing to group them.
Maybe you want to keep your communication-related apps next to each other or apps you use for images and photos grouped together. Spaces in your Dock can help you do this.
Add spaces to your Dock on Mac
If you’re not very familiar with Terminal on your Mac, don’t be intimidated. Once you open it and pop in the command we’ll give you, you can close it again forever if you like.
Open Terminal
There are actually more than a handful of ways to open Terminal on your Mac. But using one of these three ways is the quickest and easiest.
- Access Siri and and give the command, “Open Terminal.”
- Open Spotlight Search and type in “Terminal.”
- Click the Applications folder in your Dock, select Utilities, and choose Terminal.
Enter the Terminal command
Put your cursor in the Terminal window when it opens and type or copy and paste the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{“tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’; killall Dock
Press your Return key.
Move the space
Using the Terminal command above, you should now see a space in your Dock. Click and drag the space where you want it and release.
To add another space, run the Terminal command again. Then drag the second space where you want it.
If you decide later to remove the spaces you’ve added, just click and drag them out of the Dock.
More space, better organization
By adding these spaces to your Dock on Mac, you can easily group and organize your app icons easily.
Are you going to give this nifty trick a try? Let us know!
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