Make your Mac faster.

snappy shortcuts

A pet peeve of mine is when I use someone else’s Mac and their Dock is slow to appear.

Apple is known for their attention to detail and smooth, elegant animations, but those built-in delays actually make a big difference to my thinking. If you auto-hide your Dock to save screen space, you are wasting valuable microseconds every single time you need to open an app.

You can bypass Apple’s default animations and make your Mac feel snappy by pasting a simple command into your Terminal.

Here is how to make your Dock appear instantly:

1. Open TeCopy the code block below, paste it directly into the Terminal window, and hit Return:rminal (Press Cmd + Space, type “Terminal”, and hit Return).

2. Copy the code block below, paste it directly into the terminal window, and hit ‘enter’:

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

Want to go back?

If you realize you actually miss Apple’s slow, smooth animations, don’t worry! Paste the below into terminal and hit Return:

defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay; defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier; killall Dock

That’s about for this post, hope this made you guys incrementally better!