Dock and Finder issues since Sequoia 15.4 update

Since I updated to Sequoia 15.4 I have problems with the Dock and Finder. On some startups the dock is missing and I have to open the Terminal and enter the "killall Dock" command to make it reappear. Other times the Finder gives me troubles. It doubles the Applications list in the folder that I have in the Dock. After I enter the Terminal command "killall Finder", the issue disappears but sometimes it comes back.

I have tried to reset the Dock to default with the Terminal command:

defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock

But the Dock issue sometimes returns.

I did not have these issues with previous versions of Sequoia or Sonoma.

MacBook Pro 14″

Posted on Apr 15, 2025 9:03 AM

20 replies

cybearBZ Author

Level 1

22 points

May 29, 2025 2:24 AM in response to BDAqua

The issue unfortunately appears just random and not very often. If I would create a new admin user and use that instead of my main one, I have to reconfigure many things which would be a lot of work.

For now, when it happens I use the temporary workaround by putting the sorting order of the folders to kind and afterwards back to name.

cybearBZ Author

Level 1

22 points

May 29, 2025 2:51 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yes, you can change the sorting order of a folder in the Dock (for example the Download folder) by clicking the right mouse button on the folder icon which makes appear the sorting order menu at the top among other settings.

cybearBZ Author

Level 1

22 points

May 5, 2025 1:36 PM in response to cybearBZ

I have updated to Sequoia 15.4.1, I have restarted macOS a lot of times, but the Dock missing problem at startup still re-appears sometimes.

cybearBZ Author

Level 1

22 points

May 7, 2025 12:00 AM in response to cybearBZ

Today at startup, the Applications list folder in the Dock was even triplicated.

May 29, 2025 3:49 AM in response to cybearBZ

Thanks! Not being a user of the Dock myself, I had missed that you can change the sort order there.

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Dock and Finder issues since Sequoia 15.4 update