
A list of options would pop up, hover on the “ Options“, it would show the option “ Remove from dock“, click on it. Press Control key and click on the applications icon in the dock.

People often get confused that by doing this you are moving the app icon from dock to desktop which is wrong, it just removes it from dock, it doesn’t add it to the desktop. Two, the black dot could go away, and the app’s icon. After you’ve right-clicked on the app and pressed Quit, the app should do one of two things. You can also click on the trackpad with two fingers instead of just one to right-click. You need to drag the icon away until it says Remove at the top of icon and then just drop it to remove from dock. To right-click, press and hold control, then click on the app. You may find that sometimes when you do it, the icons just keep coming back to the dock, this is because you are not dragging it far from dock. You can drag the application icon away from the dock to remove it.

First, click the Go menu again, select Go to Folder, type (or copy-paste) the following folder address in the Go to Folder search bar, and click Go to open the specified folder. There are two ways to clear up the non frequently used apps from the dock 1) By dragging the application icon away from dock Now you must visit several folders on your Mac where it is likely to find rogue data and clean those folders. If your dock is getting cluttered may be because of you adding several unnecessary applications to the dock, then you can fix this and make your dock look great again.
