Dock

How to always show only open apps in your Mac Dock

Ankur Thakur ∙ May 24, 2022

You have most likely already customized your Mac’s Dock with applications you use daily. However, if you feel that your Dock is cluttered and takes a lot of space, you can customize it from System Preferences to decrease its size. Alternatively, you can even set your Mac’s Dock only to show open, running apps!

Getting your Mac Dock to show only running apps will significantly tidy it up. And whenever you restart your Mac, you will be greeted with a tiny Dock that just has the Finder and Trash icons.

TransparentDock is a new jailbreak tweak coded in Swift that makes the Dock’s background transparent

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 22, 2021

While I’ve always enjoyed having a background behind my iPhone’s Home Screen Dock, the fact remains that there are a substantial number of jailbreakers that partake in even more extreme forms of minimalism than me.

Transdock provides jailbreakers with a fully transparent Home Screen Dock

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 13, 2021

The Home Screen contains icons for every app you have on your iPhone, but a reserved place exists at the bottom of the Home Screen where for you to store shortcuts to your four favorite apps. We commonly refer to this the Dock.

DockLS brings the Home Screen’s Dock to the Lock Screen on jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 29, 2022

The Dock is something that most iPhone users would associate with the Home Screen, especially because it’s been present there since the dawn of the iPhone in 2007.

DockSearch incorporates a convenient web search tool into any jailbroken iPhone’s Dock

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 4, 2022

Anyone that searches the web all the time will find value in something that can make that job easier, and that’s just one reason why a newly released jailbreak tweak called DockSearch by iOS developer ginsudev could be of interest; especially if this unique categorization applies to you.

Vinculum 2 changes how you access the App Library on jailbroken iOS 14 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2021

Most iOS 14 users are familiar with the App Library by now. For those who aren’t, it’s the additional page all the way to the right of the Home Screen that sorts your installed apps by their categories.

This tweak brings the iPadOS Dock to jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 18, 2022

If you have an iPad with a modern version of iPadOS installed on it, then you already know just how awesome Apple made the Dock experience to be on its tablet platform in the name of multitasking.

DockX Reborn offers extensive UI customization for the Home Screen’s Dock

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 19, 2021

The Dock is a place on your Home Screen to store some of your favorite apps. Its useful because it follows you from one page to the next so that you don’t have to go out of your way to search for those specific apps in the future.

I use my Dock all the time, but I certainly wish Apple offered a little more in the customization department. For that reason, I can recommend a new jailbreak tweak called DockX Reborn by iOS developer Mudi47 to anyone who feels the same way I do.

Set any image as your Dock’s background with PhotoDock

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 10, 2021

If after jailbreaking your iPhone, you’ve started looking for a fun and quirky way to customize the Home Screen’s aesthetics, then we’ve got a treat for you.

PhotoDock is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak developed by PopsicleTreehouse that lets users set a custom background image for the Home Screen’s Dock.

Add a splash of color to the iOS 14 Home Screen’s Dock with ColourMyDock

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 16, 2022

If you just jailbroke your iPhone or iPad on iOS or iPadOS 14 with the newly updated unc0ver jailbreak tool this past weekend, then you might be interested in finding some jailbreak tweaks to get your handset customization off to an acceptable start.

With that in mind, we’ll take this moment to recommend a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed ColourMyDock by iOS developer TitanD3v, which allows jailbreakers to colorize their Home Screen’s Dock color with ease.

Kensington’s StudioLock iPad dock combines port expansion with wireless charging pads

Christian Zibreg ∙ January 11, 2021

Accessory maker Kensington at CES 2021 today announced its new docking station for the iPad and iPad Pro that expands the tablet's connectivity options with additional ports for your convince. It also doubles as a multi device wireless charger with a pair of Qi charging pads for your iPhone and AirPods, plus an optional Apple Watch charger.

Give your older iPhone a bevy of modern handset features with Little12

Anthony Bouchard ∙ January 5, 2021

When Apple launched the iPhone X back in 2018, we knew the company was transitioning into a new hardware era. It wasn’t long before Apple ditched Home Button-equipped handsets altogether, paving the way for a more advanced gesture-driven user experience that could be enjoyed on a larger edge-to-edge display.

For those who still have an older Home Button-equipped iPhone, the user experience isn’t quite as robust as it would be on a notched handset by comparison. For that reason, iOS developer Ryan Nair launched Little12, a free jailbreak tweak that back-ports several of the gestures and features from notched devices (and then some) to non-notched devices.