It is easy to enable as well as hide your dock on your Mac running macOS. When it comes to the menu bar that sits at the top of your desktop, things need a little tweaking. In the past, you probably needed a third party app to hide the menu bar, not anymore.
Here is a Quick tip that can get you going!
With macOS Sierra, it is relatively easy to enable and disable the menu bar at the top your screen.
Enable and Disable Menu Bar from the Top of Your MacBook Screen
Step – 1 Click on > System Preferences
Step – 2 Click on General
Step – 3 The second check box on the screen “Automatically hide and show the menu bar” is the key setting. Check this box.
This will hide your menu bar from the top of your screen.
How to Enable or Disable Dock on Your MacBook
In order to disable your dock from appearing on the main screen, click on system preferences followed by Dock.
Check the “Automatically hide and show the dock” here and your dock will be hidden. It will only show up when you drag your mouse pointer onto the bottom of the screen.
On this screen, you can also choose to customize your Dock icon and size as well as change the position of the dock on your screen.
In order to change the overall size of the dock items, click and drag the size slider till you like a size that you like.
Similarly, if you want the dock to be moved from its default bottom position, click on ‘Position on Screen’ options and the dock will adjust to the new location.
These are simple settings that we tend to forget over time. This will be a handy tip next time you are trying to locate your missing dock or menu bar on your Macbook running macOS Sierra.
We hope that you found this quick Mac tip useful. Please let us know in the comments below if you like to share some of your favorite Macbook Tips.
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The names on the files saved to my desktop suddenly started appearing as white with a drop shadow. Very difficult to read. How do i change font back to normal black?
Hi,
In high Sierra is it possible to change the very outdated 2d appearance of the dock to the cool 3D look ?
I can’t believe living in a 4d world using a 2d dock…crazy… I am not sure why dock pref can’t give us the choice… instead of going back in time… ?:-)
Unfortunately, there is no official “Apple” way to get a 3D Dock on macOS High Sierra.
Some folks recommend a third-party app called cDock that allows for lots of Dock customizations including 3D options.
The negative of cDock is you need to disable your Mac’s SIP (System Integrity Protection) before you install it. Once installed, you can turn SIP back on–cDock includes instructions on how to do this process.
There are some Terminal Commands if all you want is to make those Dock icon magnification sizes larger–substitute the current size specs with the size you want up to a max of 512 pixels–the current default large size is 128.
The example here changes the specs to 256
defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -int 256; killall Dock
The names on the files saved to my desktop suddenly started appearing as white with a drop shadow. Very difficult to read. How do i change font back to normal black?
Hi,
In high Sierra is it possible to change the very outdated 2d appearance of the dock to the cool 3D look ?
I can’t believe living in a 4d world using a 2d dock…crazy… I am not sure why dock pref can’t give us the choice… instead of going back in time… ?:-)
Thank you
HI Chris,
Unfortunately, there is no official “Apple” way to get a 3D Dock on macOS High Sierra.
Some folks recommend a third-party app called cDock that allows for lots of Dock customizations including 3D options.
The negative of cDock is you need to disable your Mac’s SIP (System Integrity Protection) before you install it. Once installed, you can turn SIP back on–cDock includes instructions on how to do this process.
There are some Terminal Commands if all you want is to make those Dock icon magnification sizes larger–substitute the current size specs with the size you want up to a max of 512 pixels–the current default large size is 128.
The example here changes the specs to 256
defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -int 256; killall Dock