How do I reset the Dock icons on my Mac?

How to reset your Dock to its default

Open Terminal (located in the Utilities folder).
Type (or copy and paste) defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock.
Hit return.

How do I make the icons smaller on Big Sur?

You can easily experiment with changing your icon sizes as follows. In Finder, select View -> Show View Options (or just press Command-J). The options are slightly different for items on your desktop (left) and folders (right). Use the Small/Large slider to select the size of your icons.

How do I make the top bar on my Mac full screen?

Hold Option and double-click to the edge of any window to make it fill the screen. Doing this to the top or bottom side will expand it vertically. Doing this to a corner will expand it both horizontally and vertically.

How do I get my Mac Dock to full screen?

To show the Dock in a full screen app, swipe twice at the bottom of the screen, the first swipe won’t show anything but the second swipe will draw the Dock upwards as usual. Regardless of Dock auto-hide settings this will activate the same way so long as the user is in full-screen mode for any given app.

How do I unfreeze my Mac Dock?

You can also try to fix an unresponsive Dock by deleting the cache:

Open Finder.
Click Go, in the top menu bar and select Go To Folder…
Copy/paste this string: ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder/Cache.db.
Click Go.
Delete the Cache. db file and restart your Mac.

How do I enlarge my screen?

Right-click an empty area of the desktop and select “Screen Resolution.” Alternatively, click “Start | Control Panel | Appearance and Personalization | Adjust Screen Resolution.”

How do I enlarge the icons on my desktop?

To resize desktop icons Right-click (or press and hold) the desktop, point to View, and then select Large icons, Medium icons, or Small icons. Tip: You can also use the scroll wheel on your mouse to resize desktop icons. On the desktop, press and hold Ctrl while you scroll the wheel to make icons larger or smaller.

Is there a dark bar on the dock?

No, seriously: that’s it. You now have a dark menu bar, and your menu bar icons should turn white so that you can still see them. The dock will also take on a darker hue. That’s just about all this tweak changes: your programs will look the same, and so will their interface elements.

How do I change the size of the dock and menu bar?

To change these preferences, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Dock & Menu Bar. Drag the slider to change the Dock size. Magnify icons when you move the pointer over them. Drag the slider to choose the magnification size.

How can I Make My icons on my Desktop bigger?

The former will show you how to make the Dock (the menu bar that stretches along the bottom of the screen) icons larger, while the latter will guide you through boosting the size of folders, files and icons on your desktop. Head to System Preferences and – surprise, surprise – click the Dock option on the top row.

How do I minimize the dock on my Mac?

If the Dock is along the side of the screen, the window fills the space below the menu bar and to the side of the Dock. Minimize an app window to the app icon in the Dock. If the option is deselected, the window is minimized to an area in the Dock. Make icons bounce when you open apps.

How do I reset the Dock icons on my Mac?