How do I pin an app icon to the task bar on Mac

nancy289 wrote:

I tried dropping and dragging it from the app folder to the dock. It just keeps springing back to the folder.

Dragging and dropping where on the Dock?

Change Dock & Menu Bar preferences on Mac - Apple Support

Open a new Finder window. In the Finder's Favorites listing in the sidebar, there should be an Applications entry, which you click to expose the applications icons. Click on the preferred application icon, drag over the Dock, position where you want it, and release. That is the customary way to add an application alias to your Dock.

nancy289 wrote:

How do I pin an app icon to the task bar on Mac

Which one is the "task bar" , maybe this is a Windows term...(?)

The menu bar at the top

or

the Dock at the bottom...

Drag and drop the Application from the Finder's sidebar Applications location to the Dock where you want it located. This is just an alias, as it would be in Windows.