- Removing an icon from the Dock. Removing an item from the Dock is as easy as 1-2-3 but without the 3: Drag its icon off the Dock and onto the Desktop. When you see the Remove bubble, release the icon (mouse button). There is no Step 3. You can also choose Remove from Dock in the item’s Dock menu to get it out of your Dock, but this way is way.
- The app itself isn't the home of that app, so removing it won’t delete the app. Instead, an alias - or shortcut is created - giving you a quick, easy link to the app you want to use. So removing an app from Dock doesn't remove it altogether, it only takes it out of the Dock. Here is how you do that: Removing apps from Dock.
- This video shows you how to add or remove an application from the 'Dock' area at the bottom of your main screen Disclaimer: We make no ownership claims to the products/images shown in this video.
If your dock is getting cluttered may be because of you adding several unnecessary applications to the dock, then you can fix this and make your dock look great again.
In Mac OS X Dock works as an entry point from where user can directly access installed applications or system locations just with a single click. For your personal convenience you must add frequently accessed applications in the dock and remove unnecessary applications icons from Dock to make some space free. On your Mac open System Preferences. Now click on the ‘Dock‘ icon to access its options. Once on the Dock options page, look for the ‘Show recent applications in Dock‘. Uncheck the box next to it. After you have unchecked the box, the recent application icons will disappear from the dock. Remove Apps from Dock After Quitting. This is to clean your dock, once you quit the app. What I see the annoying part is, if you keep the Mac apps on the dock, even after you quit the apps, the mac dock eventually gets full with a lot of apps. Here you can enable to automatically remove the apps from dock once you quit the app.
There are two ways to clear up the non frequently used apps from the dock
1) By dragging the application icon away from dock
You can drag the application icon away from the dock to remove it. You may find that sometimes when you do it, the icons just keep coming back to the dock, this is because you are not dragging it far from dock.
You need to drag the icon away until it says Remove at the top of icon and then just drop it to remove from dock. People often get confused that by doing this you are moving the app icon from dock to desktop which is wrong, it just removes it from dock, it doesn’t add it to the desktop.
Control + click on the icon
This is another way of doing it. Press
Mac Add App To Dock
In Mac OS X Dock works as an entry point from where user can directly access installed applications or system locations just with a single click. For your personal convenience you must add frequently accessed applications in the dock and remove unnecessary applications icons from Dock to make some space free.
You can also see How to Change Mac Dock Position and Style
To add or remove Dock applications find the methods below
1- Add Applications to Dock
In Dock Click on Finder
Open Applications from PLACES and just drag & drop the application to which you want to add on Dock
The other method is that when you run any application from Finder its icon resides in Dock, CTRL-click on icon and click option Keep in Dock, so next time when you login to Mac that application would be available on Dock
2- Remove Applications from Dock
How To Remove An Application From Mac Dock
Just drag that icon from Dock and drop on desktop or CTRL-Click on application icon to which you want to delete and click Remove from Dock