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Apple Support screen share Remote Advisor stuck...

Apple Support screen share Remote Advisor stuck... sometimes 3 or more STUCK Remote Advisors...

dating back to who knows when. Hover shows “Remote Advisor”. Clicking on the Dock's thumbnail called Remote Advisor (now a question mark) does nothing. This has been a nuisance for all OS X and now [OOPH!] Big Sur.

These are supposed to automatically disappear when the screen share ends, but seldom do. Is the problem dirty Remote Advisor - and please explain, how to never see this detritus in the Dock?

Posted on Jul 21, 2021 2:23 PM

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Jul 22, 2021 10:49 AM in response to Osiyo

Hello there Osiyo,



Thanks for posting here on the Apple Support Communities! This is a place where other Apple users can submit questions or respond to others to help lend a hand.


We understand you’re trying to remove an unused app icon from the Dock. Let's take a closer look as we do our best to provide some additional insight.


To get started, app icons on the dock are just shortcuts. When you see a question mark like that, this means the app itself has been uninstalled or it has been moved. With that in mind, it is completely normal for the icon of a recently used app to remain on the dock in the Recently Used Apps section as shown in your screenshot.


You can learn more about how the Dock works and how to remove unused shortcuts from he Dock here: Use the Dock on Mac


If you have questions about this specific tool used by Apple, then you may be better off reaching our to Apple Support directly.



We hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction.


Take care.

Jul 22, 2021 11:04 PM in response to barberlives123

Thanks for attempted answer, Barberlives123. You ignore one important fact. The icon appears to be purposed.


When any Docked app uninstalls itself, it removes its Dock icon. For the Apple-friendly app that is Docked, moving that friendly app to the Trash also removes the Dock icon.


Remote advisor adds a special twist to that simple Dock icon dance. When the Remote Advisor is removed it may or may not appear in Trash: that is it may remove itself permanently, or not. Trash presence for rare Engineering involvement can permit re-uses of Remote Advisor by removing it from Trash (extremely rare reactivation of tagged Remote advisor session). Trash or not, when remote advisor closes its descriptive Dock icon changes to a Dock semitransparent question mark that is useless, in the present support environment. Perhaps an intended reminder. Additionally, the question marks disappear eventually. Perhaps indicating an Apple Team resolution?


Descriptive active icon or inactive question mark, there's a lot happening under the surface of that adaptive Remote Advisor icon. I just wish that active or inactive, that icon would open a customer version of case in a specific, permanent URL collection. Specific to each Apple customer's Apple ID. I paid $2.79 for a permanent storage space of 20TB, 5 years ago (sitting there un-used). There's plenty of cheap resource that Apple can use to host permanent Remote Advisor collections, one permanent collection for each Apple ID. See a Dock question mark? CLICK! Open your Remote Advisor collection, naturally with your most recent case number highlighted and ready to open with another click on your Apple ID page's Remote Advisor collection.


Associated personnel and interface management would be a very minor corporate logistic. Apple Support currently runs a very sleepy under-deployed case-online system. Market that and grow it. A unique and as yet ignored Apple Market capacity.

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