
The very last option on the window that appears is Show recent applications in Dock and you can untick it. However, if you want rid of it, go to System Preferences and choose Dock. If you like the recent apps feature, you can leave it right there. Oddly, this feels like a feature that is present in the Dock yet would mostly help people who don't use the Dock. What Apple means by three recent apps is that it will keep icons for the last three apps that you opened -and also closed again. You aren't limited to three, you aren't limited at all. When you launch any app that isn't already in your Dock, it will open up with its icon in this Recent Apps section and that's straightforward enough.Įxcept that all apps you open do this. That's because the section of the Dock that Apple says is for Recent Apps does more than advertised.
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Bottom: our Dock apparently showing four. Top: Apple's documentation about three recently used apps. Apple's documentation says that the Dock will show three recent apps but right now you would believe we have four. So they're taking up space and, depending on how many other apps you have in it, they're also causing the Dock to shrink in size. If they're ones you use once in a blue moon, you're not going to need them again for quite a while. That's fine, except if you were using them a lot, you'd have them in your regular dock. According to Apple, the Dock will now show the last three apps you launched so that you can go quickly back into them. There are also alternatives from third parties and if you can't get enough of the Dock, there's an app that will give you many, many more of them.Īpple's macOS Mojave added a feature called Recent Apps to your Dock - and it's not as useful as it sounds.

And if you're proudly Dockless then you haven't - but you could be missing out.įor alongside the new Mojave development, there are options to keep the Dock available to you yet less distracting. If you do still have it displayed then you'll have seen extra icons appear in it. However, among Mojave's changes to macOS come an alteration in how the Dock works.
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Then much more experienced Mac users may well have dispensed with the Dock entirely and not thought about it since. It's still at the bottom of the screen as nature and Apple intended, and they may not even have dragged to rearrange the order. You know that the giant majority of Mac users have never thought to change anything about their Dock.
