Mac mini M4 pro
I leave the Mac until screen saver comes up. Then I stop the screen saver and the dock is hidden.
It's not only hidden but refusing to come up properly. Then I have to go to System settings->Desktop & Dock to switch on&off "Automatically hide and show the Dock".
This keeps happening and only started after the OS upgrade.
Mac mini (M4)
That is not the expected behavior.
See if the problem is present when you boot in safe mode, which disables 3rd party extensions and performs some system cleanup.
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
If that clears it up, reboot normally and quite likely the issue will be gone.
Here is some more information.
I have two monitors connected to the Mac mini via HDMI and USB-C to DP.
The DP monitor is the main display while the other monitor is shared with a MacBook Pro.
This issue has been happening on the main display (DP) while I have the extended monitor set to USB-C for the MacBook Pro.
That seems to be a running theme with Tahoe so far. No Spotlight results? Kill the process and it’s fine thereafter. Space bar not playing/pausing in the main Music window? Show then hide the playing next panel and it works normally thereafter. Etc.
Came here from search, I have the same issue with my MacBook Pro 14 M1 Pro (2021) with Tahoe 26.0.1.
Random time my dock turns on auto hide after screensaver or sleep.
MacBook is dock closed & connected to my Studio Display.
BertingAP wrote:
The dock problem is still happening since the update 26.0.1. This update obviously didn't fix the bug!
Correct, the release notes for Tahoe 26.0.1 mentioned NOTHING about this issue and therefore nothing has changed. Like all software developers bugs are prioritized according to impact. While this bug is annoying it is not a showstopper. Just wait.
26.0.1 did not fix. If apple believes it's a 3rd party app, I only have a few. Brave browser, tonex and hx edit. That is it. The dock hides just about everytime after shifting tiles screen saver. Very annoying.
26.0.1 did not fix it because that bug is not on the list of things to fix yet. While mildly annoying this bug is not a show stopper in any way. Software engineers have bigger fish to fry. No need to obsess over it. It will be dealt with eventually.
Having the same issue on an M4 iMac. Will try some of the fixes here and report back.
I tried doing the toggle before deleting the .plist preferences, but I may have just done on/off, not on/off/on/off
I have the same problem on my 2 Macs. annoying! Have to switch on and off the automatically hide dock.
So we wait for 26.1 to fix some annoying glitches but overall 26 is very stable for me. Typical software development. There is no such thing as bug free software anywhere in the world.
Trashing the .plist preferences was apparently a temporary fix. Dock hiding on its own is back again.
Same problem here, this day it has already happened to me almost 20 times. M1 Pro MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26.0
Same problem for me. I found that toggling the automatic hiding function in Settings/Desktop & Dock on and off is a temporary fix, but in a few hours the bug is back.
This is annoying. I do not want dock to be hidden and the issue comes on 4-5 times each day after screensaver or something I believe. I am using a Mac mini M1 with 16GB/512GB
AND there's no com.apple.dock anything in my preferences. Mac Mini M2.
Dock keeps auto-hiding on macOS Tahoe
