After migrating to new Sequoia version, the dock cannot be moved to another monitor

I can also confirm this has been fixed with 15.1.1

timbavd wrote:

I have for several years had a 4K screen physically positioned and in settings arranged immediately and centrally above my laptop screen. My large screen 23.5" wide and is as high as its stand will allow, and the laptop sits beneath it and is 13.5" wide, so there's 5" on either side of the top screen where the pointer will not descend.

Prior to Sequoia, I have been able - as described variously above - to position my mouse to one or other of the 5" 'shoulders' of the upper screen and then slide the pointer downwards, with the result that the pointer stays on the upper screen, but the dock shifts to the top screen, above the menu bar of the built-in screen, so I could move up from the lower screen's menu bar onto the dock on the upper screen. This was on both my ARM and my Intel Mac.

Far from having 'never been possible', it has been very ergonomic - reducing the distance my pointer has to travel from the multiplicity of windows I have open across a large area, reducing the distraction from my focus of interest, improving my workflow, and has never resulted in my having to 'play whack-a-mole'. Most of us don't live on 512x342 pixel screens any more, so there are various other decisions made back then which are also probably due for a bit of different thinking - mix the dock into launchpad, context-sensitive application menu, etc.

If you search back through the history of the dock, when it was initially made possible to move between screens, it did not work, whether there was a gap on the edges or not. The dock couldn’t be put on the scene between displays. At some point along the line, Apple made it possible to do what you described. I have no idea whether it was possible or not and when that happened because my monitors have always been the same size and there was no gap, and then I started using my dock on the side since I never use it and it doesn’t take up any vertical real estate. On the side, it is not possible to make it appear in the seam regardless of gaps.

So, it originally did not work, Apple made it work, and like many things, that fix got lost when they rewrote the software for the new OS version.

there are some posts that say, they will restore that function in the next update, but I can’t provide you any information on that, just what others have said

This Change really suck for us 3 screen users. The shot with the traditional 2 over 1 is how I have run for the last yr and almost alway keep my dock on the upper left as it sits in second scrn shot.

Now the only way to do that is to put the gap as some have suggested or as I have done here and move

the macbook screen to the right just to the point none of it is under the upper left(my primary) and the dock

lands there. This is the closest I can get to the previous "Natural" mouse flow in the previous OS versions.

better that the around the horn motion the gap method creates.

For those say that it never has worked on "seams" in this setup it DID. The Catch was the top screens Only

share Part of there Bottom with the Macbook below. This allows the mouse to bump the bottom and move

dock between all 3 screens. Yes the Dock was Partially on a seam but was anchored by the remaining bottom

that was not a seam.

What is your display arrangement? Where is the Dock positioned (left, right or bottom)?

If you have displays side by side and put the Dock, say, on the right, it will appear on whichever display is on the right.

If the Dock is set at the bottom and your displays are side by side, then you should be able to "bump" your cursor against the bottom of either screen and have the Dock move there. If it does not work, try setting the Dock to automatically hide and show, then try again to bump agains the bottom of the screen. The change it back.

Also, you may want to set your main display in System Settings->Displays to be the mac display.

15.1 became public yesterday and I get the docks to show on all monitors now.

Apple recently released an update that fixes this bug and it is now possible to place the dock on the top monitor. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Chriz1984 wrote:

Okay, correction. It worked before the update from Sonoma to Sequoia. I haven't changed my setup in over a year. After the update it no longer worked.

Many others have the exact same problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1fidqex/dock_behaviour_change_in_sequoia_with/

It has never been any different than I described since the introduction of the Dock. From your link, Iknappster reported the not bug in El Capitan. It is designed how it is designed and has always been designed like that.

If you and anyone else managed to make it happen, that was a bug, or you had installed some third-party system modification that allowed it. That software may no longer work under Sequoia and you need to update that software.

Hi Luis, you've missed another screen layout option which I think most others are referring to where they are using 2 screens, one directly above the other, but the external screen is a larger definition (wider than the in-built screen). This is certainly my setup and has been for many years. You could move the cursor down to the bottom left or right side of the upper screen and the toolbar would move to the bottom of that larger screen (the top screen). Again, others have noted that Apple broke it in previous versions, I think it was broken in the initial release of Big Sur, but then fixed it in subsequent releases.

All we're asking is for Apple to fix what was working in previous releases.

My favourite workaround for this at present is to move the dock to the left side of the screen where it seems to follow the primary screen configuration.

Chriz1984 wrote:

Can confirm. When the external display is aligned above the macbook, its not possible to move the dock there. Only if the external display is left, right or at the bottom. Seems to be a bug.

It may seem that way to you, but it’s not. The Dock is designed to be anchored, not floating in space where you can overshoot the target.

ascdit wrote:

Maybe... you can look this video

https://youtu.be/JUUyrW-vyWU?feature=shared

before Sequoia, it can be moved like this, whether it is two screens or three screens.

It is worth explaining that I hope this function exists, because it is very convenient for me to operate dock more conveniently under multiple monitors.

That is not what I was describing and seemed to get confirmation that we are talking about a seam between displays. If the displays are arranged in the Displays arrangement tab such that there is no seam between the bottom of the external display and the laptop display, then the Dock can be placed there at the bottom of the external display. If there is a seam, then it cannot be placed there.

I have no idea about bouncing the dock around between monitors which is what the video describes.

I have for several years had a 4K screen physically positioned and in settings arranged immediately and centrally above my laptop screen. My large screen 23.5" wide and is as high as its stand will allow, and the laptop sits beneath it and is 13.5" wide, so there's 5" on either side of the top screen where the pointer will not descend.

Prior to Sequoia, I have been able - as described variously above - to position my mouse to one or other of the 5" 'shoulders' of the upper screen and then slide the pointer downwards, with the result that the pointer stays on the upper screen, but the dock shifts to the top screen, above the menu bar of the built-in screen, so I could move up from the lower screen's menu bar onto the dock on the upper screen. This was on both my ARM and my Intel Mac.

Far from having 'never been possible', it has been very ergonomic - reducing the distance my pointer has to travel from the multiplicity of windows I have open across a large area, reducing the distraction from my focus of interest, improving my workflow, and has never resulted in my having to 'play whack-a-mole'. Most of us don't live on 512x342 pixel screens any more, so there are various other decisions made back then which are also probably due for a bit of different thinking - mix the dock into launchpad, context-sensitive application menu, etc.

I under your setup.

I think it was Barney that already explained why this does not work. The Dock has to be on an edge, and in your situation it would be in the middle of the combined display. You move the cursor to an edge and “bump into it”, which makes the Dock easy to target. In the situation you describe one would easily “overshoot”. You may want it to work like this, and you can ask Apple to change it back. We users can’t do anything about it, either way.

FWIW, the command-tab uses only the keyboard so, right-or left handed should not make any difference, I think. You do use both hands to type, no?

I was having the same problem but after reading the comments I changed the arrangement of my monitors and now the dock will float to the monitor I'm using as it did before. See below for the arrangement that worked.

Well, I missed this function as well. I don't know that some people just mentioned if this behavior is by design should be like that. However, I can confirm that this function was working well before Sequoia.

The good news is some Redittor confirmed that the function was fixed in version 15.1 🥳.