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marcusalwayswins

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May 23, 2021
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How many of you guys have changed the timing on how quickly your Dock appears, if you have kept it for "Automatically Hide and Show Dock".

I tried to increase the response time by doing some changes going through terminal and some earlier post but that does not seem to have worked.

Does anyone know a confirmed way of speeding up the time on how quickly the dock appears?
 
I have the OnyX app and have set Parameters>Dock>Don't display animation when showing or hiding the Dock turned ON and my Dock pops out instantly.

is Onyx app an APP actually ?

And when you do Don't display animation when showing or hiding dock what else does it affect ?
 
I used these 2 commands on Terminal

defaults write com.apple.dock
autohide time-modifier -int 0; killall
Dock

defaults write com.apple.dock
autohide time-modifier -float 0.15;
killall Dock
Wrong parameters, I think.

When I use TinkerTool to:
Disable animation when hiding or showing Dock, and
Disable delay when showing hidden Dock
as well as setting autohide in System Settings

This sets these parameters:
defaults read com.apple.dock
{
autohide = 1;
"autohide-delay" = 0;
"autohide-time-modifier" = 0;
....
}

Dock hide/show is then lightning fast.

You could try 'defaults write' with these values, but TinkerTool and Onyx are easier - both are free.

TinkerTool is https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

ScreenFloat Shot of TinkerTool at 24 May 2025 at 2_00_58 pm.png
 
TinkerTool and Onyx do the same thing, so either tool should fix the issue for you. Or, you can continue to try and use the terminal to do it - but I find it frustrating to figure out the new code to enter every time Apple changes something.
 
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