Is there a new way to move an app icon down the dock? I always just selected the icon and dragged it to the new location, but now I can't. My Studio and MBA are both running Tahoe. Did Tahoe change this?
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Moving Icon in Dock
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Not for me and other users:
Unable to remove or rearrange Dock icons … - Apple Community
Can you provide some screenshots and details of what is actually happening. Is it on the actual dock or is it in the most recently used apps section of the dock? Is it all Apps or just one?
Apps already in the dock. If I click on a recently used one, I still get the option of Keep in Dock. But once it's in the dock, it's just like the ones already there: I can't select and slide like I did before Tahoe.
Hit this on my M3 Max MBP on 26.5 — it's not fully broken, the drag registration just got stricter. What worked for me: click and hold for a full half-second before you start moving, wait for the icon to do a tiny "lift" scale animation, then drag. If you do the old instant click-and-drag in one motion the Dock treats it as a plain click and launches the app instead. The tell is whether you see that little scale-up before the icon starts following the cursor.
If even the hold-then-drag isn't taking, `killall Dock` in Terminal usually clears it. I've had to do that twice on the MBP after wake-from-sleep specifically — Dock daemon gets into a state where drag events don't register at all until it restarts.
If even the hold-then-drag isn't taking, `killall Dock` in Terminal usually clears it. I've had to do that twice on the MBP after wake-from-sleep specifically — Dock daemon gets into a state where drag events don't register at all until it restarts.
Move the icon out of the dock and then drag it along the top of the dock to the spot where you want it, and then down into the dock. This works for me.
I can't even drag an icon out of the dock. I'm going to try "killall Dock" to see if that does the trick.