Menu bar (Dock) disappears

In my iMac the Menu Bar (Dock) at the top keeps disappearing even though I have "Automatically hide and show dock" is disabled. I have to move the mouse curser for it to show. What is the fix for this issue?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 14.2

Posted on Mar 5, 2024 12:35 PM

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Mar 28, 2024 2:13 AM in response to Andy4259

This has started happening to me recently, as well. I have yet to figure out what triggers the Dock to hide itself once I've gone back to the Control Panel and cycled the Automatically hide and show the Dock slider from On to Off.

I'm running Sonoma 14.4.1, with updates set to macOS Sonoma Developer <B-word>. (Did you know posts get automatically removed if you hint that you're not getting your updates from the normal release channel?) If you're also getting updates from that channel, maybe it's a bug there?

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