Is there a way to hide the dock in iOS 11?

The Dock, since iOS 7 could never be reduced in its height. Never. Unless your iPad was jailbroken.

You just said It yourself. The Dock was another place for icons. It STILL IS!!!!

And So if floats??? Big deal! It floats off the bottom of the screen a little.

How is THAT a problem????

The Dock is an IMPROVEMENT, folks!

It holds 15 icon locations instead of 6.

And you can still store folders of icons in the Dock as well as individual app icons.

It makes multitasking easier, also, by being able to just select the actual app you want to multitask with.

This “new” Dock does everything the older Dock always did, but now It has been expanded and a few new features added.

Did all of you complaining just leave that bottom Dock empty all the time in iOS 7, 8, 9 and 10?

I don’t like having the dock on the home screen either. I would like the option to swipe to hide it.

The dock in iOS IS NOT “New”!

It has been with iOS since iOS 7!

It just floats, now.

That's the ONLY difference.

It does everything the old iOS Dock always did.

It’s semi opaque/transparent like the old Dock was.

You can store folders worth of apps in each app location, in addition to separate apps.

It now has a place for recently used apps.

Makes multitasking easier by dragging apps out from the Dock onto the side of the iPad to enable Slide Over or Split View.

So, what is NOT to like about the new iOS Dock?

Yes - that's why I said it is of no use - it's just much more obtrusive now. You're happy with this feature and that's fine. But for those us who aren't - and evidently quite a few users, other than you, aren't - we're all stuck with it. So not sure what your evangelism is for. 'bye, now

Thank you all but I can’t make this work because the iPhone X doesn’t have a home button! It’s all screen. The only physical buttons are the volume ones on the left side and the side button on the right.

I think of your dock removal technique is a game app. I call it the “try to remove the annoying dock rectangle game”.

I’ve play it all the time but I just can’t win, that damm gray empty dock bubble always remains.

Maybe this technique has been removed in iOS 11.1.2 but

I’Ii keep at it maybe l’ll get the Nano second timing correct one day.

What is not to like about is while having and application open and playing a gaming app. While your playing the game if you touch the screen to hard or slide your finger a lil bit (not to iOS liking apparently) the DOCK POPS UP! Blocking out important buttons needed to be clicked on in that game app causing you to lose the game 99% of the time. IMO I agree it’s a good thing but shouldn’t be popping up while using an app and blocking the apps content.

Tried the swiping thing for 20 - 30 minutes. Sorta think that was a joke. Not funny though.

The BIG FAT "In the way" dock has not been there before.

In earlier versions it was small and not "in your face." And there was nothing on it unless I put it there.

I hate the Recents. The only way to clear off recents is the hold and swipe. Should be able to just turn that off. I never use it anyway.

I basically hate anything that gets in my face or my way of doing things that I cannot turn off.

I will probably sell this thing and get something else because my two most used apps are not upgrading because of the difficulties with Apple.

[Add to those problems - since the iOS 11.2 my screen freezes or jumps to the next thing without being told to do that.]

All in all - if I cannot VERY easily control the Dock and what it does, then it is USELESS.

Thanks for the admonishment; I probably deserved it.

On my old version, the Dock did not float. And there was a setting to make it smaller.

And I did like the Dock at the bottom, not floating.

Thanks for the settings info, I missed it. It is under General - Multi-tasking.

I think the Dock might be great. But I would love a way to turn it off. For me, personally, that would work best.

When I updated, I did a complete update with reset.

When I use YouTube, I cannot scroll about 60% of the time. I have to back up to the previous screen and go forward [maybe two or three times] to make it work. [Did not happen before update.]

One thing I did not mention is that the notice I received said I could back it up to the previous version, but failed to mention that I would have to do it through iTunes. [Just a bother, not the end of the world.]

And I think that you do care, or you wouldn't have replied with some solutions.

Sorry for being frustrated.

"The only issue with the new Dock is that sometimes it interferes with some games that have its controls along the bottom of the screen. Sometimes playing the game controls will inadvertently bring up the Dock or Control Center, by mistake."

EXACTLY. This is why many of us in this discussion are unhappy.

It is ugly

It is unnecessary

It is omnipresent

I don't want it there

Until I do.

Which is why a choice is always better

Not open wide and swallow someone's theological determinism

but thanks

for your blinkers

thompratt wrote:

It is ugly

It is unnecessary

It is omnipresent

I don't want it there

Until I do.

Which is why a choice is always better

Not open wide and swallow someone's theological determinism

but thanks

for your blinkers

What is so ugly about it?

Can't be any “uglier” than the previous dock? No?

Why is it unnecessary? The dock has been in this similar form since iOS 7 and there were other permutations of the Dock before iOS 7.

Not any more omnipresent than the previous Dock. So, again, what is YOUR P R O B L E M !!!!!

The Dock has always, A L W A Y S been part of iOS!

Maybe, but THIS current dock has NOT always been there. Some of the previous docks could be reduced to half size. [I did so on my iPad.] Previous versions did not "Float." Previous versions did not pop up in Apps and during games.

The previous version on my iPad did not even look like a "dock," it just looked like some more icons at the bottom of the screen.

So that is our PROBLEM !!!!! [Five exclamations.]

Apple has never been big on choice. I understand that. So what! They could change if they wanted. And the dock is unnecessary. It may be great for some, I mean really great and totally necessary. Mine is now a blank space and totally UNNECESSARY.

And it does not hurt you for us to wish it were different. So maybe don't take it so personally.

I just don’t to use it, is that so hard to understand. I have all my icons arranged the way I like them. That should be an option, am I wrong for saying this. Some people might like it and some people might not, I don’t