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But more the apps you install, more the apps simply fill the Dock, either you use the app once or never. So, in this guide, we will show you how to remove apps from the Dock on your Mac. Bring Mac cursor to get the Dock (if the dock is auto-hidden) Left-click and hold on the app icon to select the app icon. Drag out the app from the dock, by keeping the left click. This will remove any app from the dock.

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Already you must be knowing how to add your favorite app to Dock in the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. But how about adding group of apps as an folder in Dock?, like how the ‘Downloads’ folder shows up in the dock. This simple guide shows you how to group your favorite and frequently required apps together and add them to dock in latest Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Adding a single App icon to dock is very simple, you just need to drag and drop in the free space of the dock. Removing an app from dock also easy, you need to drag the app icon from dock and drop into the Trash (Recycle bin).

Always, grouping and categorizing apps in Mac OS X is good and useful, because you can access your most frequent apps quickly from dock itself. Obviously you can’t add every apps to dock separately, the space in the dock is not enough for this purpose.

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In summary this is what we are going to do; create a folder and move your favorite apps’ aliases (like shortcut in Windows Operating System), then move the folder with these app aliases to the dock- very simple.

1) Create a folder; make sure you do not delete it later. We will be moving the required apps shortcuts in to this folder.

2) Now open the ‘Application’ folder (Go –> Applications) and select the apps you need to move to the newly created folder then to the dock as group.

You have to press and hold ‘Command’ key while selecting the apps (it is like holding Ctrl key in Windows OS while selecting the icons).

3) Now we need to move this selection of icons to the new folder (which we created earlier). DO NOT just drag and drop, if you do like that, the entire apps (including all files of the app) will be moved to the folder. But our purpose is to just copy the aliases ( a small file which refer to original app icon).

Therefore, press and hold ‘Options’ and ‘Command’ key while dragging these apps from Application folder to new folder.

Since the aliases are very small, the copying will be over within few seconds. If it takes longer, then I’m sure something wrong with your move and mostly all files of the apps will be copied now (that is not what we wanted here). Also, make sure the aliases (like shortcuts in Windows OS) mark is there in every icon you have moved.

4) We have done the major part now. Now you can drag and drop the folder to the dock. Make sure you drop near ‘Downloads’ or ‘Trash’ in the dock (extreme right).

You should see the stacked group of apps on your Yosemite Mac OS X dock now.

This is the simple method to group your favorite apps to the dock and manage it properly in Mac OS X 10.10. If these icons look empty, you may need to restart your Mac computer to make it work.

This method is applicable for all Apple computers including MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop which running on Yosemite OS X 10.10 or earlier versions such as Mavericks and Mountain Lion.

Works great except if I have things set to start up at log in the icon appears in the dock. I have to quit the app then restart it.
Anyone know a work around?

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This tip only works with Cocoa Apps. Carbon apps don't have a file called 'Info.plist'.

Actually, no. If the Carbon app uses a bundle, you can add that key/value pair to its Info.plist and it works fine. If not, you should be able to add the relevant information to its 'plst' resource. I just did it with iTunes (which is a bundle), and it worked fine.
Unfortunately, there's a side effect - no menubar. Good for LaunchBar, which is designed to have its menubar hidden, but not so good for Joe Random Program.
I seem to remember there is another key you can use, something like 'ShowInDock', that -just- removes it from the dock, not anything else. Can't find it now though.

'If not, you should be able to add the relevant information to its 'plst' resource.'
uh... like... how do you do this?

• make a copy of PiDock.
• Open ResEdit (works just fine in Classic)
• Open PiDock in ResEdit
• Open the plst resource
• To the right you see scrunched up xml. Select one of the key/string pairs that's there including the '^' delimiter and paste it in next to itself.
• change the value of the key element to NSUIElement
• change the value of the string element to 1
• save it, close it, launch it.
• Voila. No dock icon.

cool.

In Jaguar, they have apparently changed the plist item named NSUIElement to LSUIElement. Although NSUIElement still works, you should begin to switch to the new terminology.

Does this still work in Panther? I've tried setting NSUIElement and LSUIElement to 1 in wClock's Info.plist file, and wClock still shows up in my dock.
Scott

The NSUIElement works with wClock, but I had to log out and log back into my account before it would hide the dock icon.
The only thing was that I not only lost the menu bar but I lost the ability to call up the calendar as well.

I am not a guru and i wanted just that outlook express icon doesn't appear on the dock when the application has been opened.
I haven't found any .plist file that refers to outlook express, and opening the .app file with resedit i can't find any 'plist resource'.
Isn't there a normal way to persecute this simple aim? (I am a windows programmer and with that terrible OS all this things are very simple to do)
thanks (I am really getting crazy for this problem)

I thought this one was good for iTunes, which really doesn't need a dock icon anymore because of the iTunes docklet. But with this hit you can't access iTunes' menu bar anymore. It there any method to hide the dock icon without toughing the remaining functionality? Thanks for any hint!

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Anyone have an idea how to, instead of removing the icons, placing them in a folder that sits in the dock. That way only taking the space of one icon but the apps are still accessable by the user. Like Dock Extenders drop down menu's exept instead with open apps rather than files/folders/apps... get my drift?
Should be possible :)

After I entered the code to the Info.plist, the Sherlock icon just jumped in the dock a few times and disappeared. However I couldn't find the app running anywhere? Where have I done wrong? thx

same problem as capitano. Quicksilver works without a dock icon and WITH a menubar, as does VirtueDestop. That's how i would like my apps that have menubar items to work. is this possible?

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btw, both of those programs have the code within them, though Quicksilver uses [integer] instead of [string]

This page is #1 if one googles 'hide dock icon mac', so I thought I'd give it an update.
In 10.4.10, one adds the following instead to the plist (after <dict>):
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
Remember to move the program temporarilty to another location and open it, in order to de-cache the plist.

Anyone got this working on Leopard? Seems all my hidden apps refuse to disappear any longer.

Good info, ebeans...
I just did this with DragThing v5.6, running under OS X 10.4.11.
It worked perfectly; no more DragThing icon in my dock.
Thanks!

...But now I'm laughing at myself.
I just noticed after editing the DragThing plist file, as ebeans suggested, that—while I no longer have the DragThing icon in my Dock—I do see its little menulet icon in my Main menu bar.
And I'm laughing even harder because upon further investigation I discovered I could've have done this by going into DragThing's preferences.
HEH! @ Me!

This doesn't work for me at all for several reasons I guess...
First of all I'm running on Leopard 10.5.2 which is more than you can say about the guys in the other posts...
My main problem is pretty simple the code that you guys tell me to implement is already there, just as you guys typed it, but the icon is still present in the dock..!?
And the Dock Dodger App is worthless !!!
I've tried using it and so far it has only been able to remove itself from the dock :/
Everything else stays the same, even after a reboot..
So basically what I'm asking for is if anybody has a solution for this? :D
Feel free to PM/Email me if you do :D

Are you sure the value is set to 1?
I'm running 10.5.2 as well, and I just used this hack for MenuCalendarClock ... works like a charm

I'm having the same problem on OS X 10.5.3. The fix recommended here is well documented by Apple, and I've found a ton of references to it throughout the web.
I'm moving the file after editing the info.plist but before running it. I'm using the Property List Editor that ships with the Xcode tools, and setting the property (as text) to '1'.
I must be missing something. Can anyone recommend any troubleshooting ideas?

Hi!

Hm, is that supposed to still work in 10.5.7?

I wanted to hide the icon for the Goolge Quick Search Box. So I opened the Info.plist — but, as you can see, the file seems to be binary, or something.

How would you go about hiding the Dock icon for the Google QSB, or for just any program for that matter?

Thanks,
Alexander

You don't have to edit the plist with Property List Editor; /usr/bin/defaults can do it too. Example:

defaults write /Applications/Stickies.app/Contents/Info LSUIElement 1

Set it back to 0 to un-hide it.

Sadly the LSUIElement setting affects not only the Dock icon but also the presence of a menu bar... so if you want a menu bar but not a Dock icon this LSUIElement setting won't help.

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If you use the property list editor that is part of the developer tools, you can just edit info.plist, add a child to 'Information Property List', and select from the dropdown that appears, 'Application is Agent (UIElement)'.