Dock disappears randomly on macOS Tahoe 26.0

It does not fix the issue, but it may be a quicker way to make the Dock visible again: press Command-Option-D.

This is a toggle, i.e. it switches between autohide and no autohide.

(Personal rant: why do people want the Dock always visible, anyway?)

One of many issues with Tahoe. What a piece of junk this release is, from bugs to aesthetics. Anyhoo, I had to create an Apple Script and put it on my desktop, next to my dock, so every time this happens I just double click the script.

tell application "System Events" to set the autohide of the dock preferences to true
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to set the autohide of the dock preferences to false

Mine came back when I logged out and back in.

Hi,

Same here since upgrading to Tahoe, after the iMac gos into screensaver, dock disappears, the only way to get it back, is to go into system preferences, click on desktop & dock, click on hide then unhide to fix this.

Maybe some underlying bugs remaining.

I guess that bug could move the Dock to some hidden display.

There is an app, DockLock Lite, in the Mac App Store. You can configure it to make the Dock stay on the selected screen.

If the Dock jumps to the wrong screen, it returns it back to the selected one.

That would make a temporary solution for you.

Does this help?

Still having issues on and off, I can’t even get the dock to pop up, when I drag the mouse to the bottom of the screen, got go on the left side hit systems preferences and click hide then unhide. .

Maybe Apple is reading all these comments and make changes for the next update.

I got this issue right after update. Switching toggle to disable/enable auto hide fixed the issue.

press command + option + d

to quickly make the dock reappear again. That way it's less of a nuisance.

Hope this gets fixed asap, it's really really annoying.

I have the same issue. I have found that if you press a key like the ESC key to go out of screen saver mode the problem does not happen but if you use the mouse it does.

KethSelhan1986 wrote:

I’ve already reported this bug to Apple via the official macOS feedback form, but I wanted to share it here in case others are experiencing the same issue — and also to provide this quick workaround until Apple releases a fix.

Has anyone else run into this?

1 M2 Desktop, 1 M4 Desktop and 1 M4 Laptop all upgraded from Sequoia 15.6.1 to MacOS 26.0 Tahoe

Starting with second statement first

No Disappear Dock(s)

Yes, the dock will disappear if applications are put in Full Screen Mode

Mouse over bottom where the Dock should be - it pops up as expected

First statement

Based upon personal experience on 3 machines plus those of my colleague @ neuroanatomist

What is occurring, on you machine, seems by all accounts to be localized and unique to your computer

I'm having the same issue so I have disabled the screen saver. Lets hope there is a fix soon

I lost my dock this morning on power up, so I don't think my problem is related to the screensaver's activity, unless it's in the background somehow.

The dock failed to appear after an unusually long start-up time. Tahoe has been pretty slow to boot every session, but this morning it was especially so.

2021 MacBook Pro M1, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD

Binop_ wrote:

I have exactly the same problem on my Mac mini with the M4 processor, and it's really annoying. 🙈🫣

Please file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

Have you reported it to Apple via Feedback - macOS - Apple.  Unless a rather large number of users report it Apple won't consider it to be a bug. So everyone who experiences this report it to Apple.