Look how wiiide it’s become, full of so much gunk now. I could use spotlight for all these, which is telling why Apple is using it for promotion instead of being useful for the users. So much of this is redundant and promotional; I don’t want Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Apple maps, iPhone mirroring, all 3x of the phone and messages and FaceTime, or the Siri app on my dock.

I’ve come to thoroughly dislike the grind getting rid of them all with the dog slow animation each new Mac I set up.

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pvtmert 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I always set `static-only` via `defaults write com.apple.Dock`. Highly recommended...

link: https://macos-defaults.com/dock/static-only.html

	▲	crossroadsguy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What does it do? It sitll shows non-active apps. Unless I quit it and if I quit it then it goes out of dock even without this setting unless I've set "keep in dock" which keeps the icon in the dock even with this flag. Genuinely curious. Is it something more nuanced?

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halflife an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many Macs are you setting up? This is only a 1 minute chore…

	▲	isityettime an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Wherher you're setting up one computer or a hundred, you should just use dockutil for this: https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil But I agree with GP. The dock only really feels usable to me when it has almost nothing in it. The default is by now extremely cluttered.

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eviks 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Couldn't you set it up once and save the settings in a script to reapply to others?