I’m always amazed when I see people using the Dock on the bottom of their screen. With all the current Macs having wide screens, there’s more space left-to-right than top-to-bottom.

You can easily change the setting from the bottom to the left or right using the Mac icon on the menu bar, and then choosing the “Dock” option. (I prefer the left myself)

But that leaves the dock centered on the left. I’d rather have it on the top. So once I have moved it to the left, I use:

defaults write com.apple.Dock pinning start

You can also use:

defaults write com.apple.Dock pinning end

defaults write com.apple.Dock pinning middle [default]

Steve suggests that the bottom is a good location to use if you use auto-hide (toggle using command+option+D). He may be right, I just have never liked auto-hide, as I like being able to get information from various applications dock app.

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   auto-hide for two reasons: I use Dock icon “badges”...give me information about unread...

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    This is a good tip, and anyone who is interested in having...left should visit

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    In Terminal.app, which is in /Applications/Utilities.

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    awesome. Thanks! But… WHERE do...“defaults write com.apple.Doc pinning start”

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