The Dock is the area the bottom of your screen on Mac along with folders and minimised windows of programs you have open.. By customising the apps and folders that live there and changing the order so you can find what you are looking for, It's handy go-to place for nearly everything you need when using your Mac, and you can make it even more useful.. There are lots of clever things you can do with the Dock, and here we will look specifically at how to add apps to the dock, and how to move them into the best position.. Open the app you want to add to the Dock, since it's not already in the Dock you may need to find the app by searching using Spotlight - press Command + Space bar and start typing the name of the app.. If you want it to remain in the Dock you can right click or control click on the in Dock.. Now the app icon will remain in the Dock even after you have closed the app and you will be able to click on it whenever you want to open that app.. But if you have lot of icons in the Dock it can make it difficult to find the one you want to open.. You can set your Dock so that icons are magnified when you swipe over them with your mouse or trackpad .. Here we will look at how to rearrange the in your Dock or perhaps put the ones you use the in the middle or sides of Dock.. If you want to organise your Dock to make it easier to find program then removing those that you never use would be one way to do so..
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