How to Instantly Show and Hide the Dock on Mac

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This guide shows you how to modify the dock such that it will hide or show the instant you roll over it, rather than the annoying default delay.

1 – Enable autohide

If you haven’t already, enable autohide. Navigate to System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar and select the Automatically hide and show the Dock option.

2 – Open Terminal

Navigate to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

3 – To make the dock hide and show instantly

Paste the following command and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.0001; killall Dock

Note: Prior to MacOS Mojave, you may need to use this command instead:

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0; killall Dock

4 – To undo this and restore normal dock behavior

Paste the following command and press enter:

defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay; killall Dock

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