Dock disappears randomly on macOS Tahoe 26.0

antoniofromsydney wrote:

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

They are not. However, you can let them know what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Not only does my dock randomly disappear, but my screen saver randomly switches between Automatic and custom. I would set the screen saver to custom, using the message option, and it would work for a couple of days, but then switch back to automatic. Same for the opposite condition: I would set the screen saver to automatic, and a couple of days later it would switch to custom.

Installed Tahoe within an hour of release, have not seen this issue on my 16" M4 Pro MBP (have used the internal display alone or with an extended 5K:2K display, but mostly used in clamshell mode).

Same issue on my Mac Pro 2019

EDIT: I successfully loaded the dock with terminal command "killall Dock". That's may be the same as toggling the show/hide dock option in System Settings. In any case, it worked.

I have the same issue. The fixes quoted work for me but are only temporary cures.

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

Definitely the best way right now to quickly restore and get the dock back when the bug kicks in. Thanks for the short command!

MacOS 26.0.1 does not fix this issue.

Does this help or not?

Thanks for the tip, but I think Apple with next update will fix it, I friend mine just bought brand new MacBook Pro, he had no problems

Looks like we might have light at the end tunnel, just got notification for Tahoe update, scheduled for tonight, lets see if the dock problem is still there after updating.

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Someone had posted earlier in this thread that the 26.0.1 update did NOT fix the issue.

Exactly same problem. killall Dock does not solve it/

Has Apple acknowledged this issue? It is very annoying having to run killall Dock all the time. Will give a try pressing Esc like @PoyanPanah suggested.