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<p>Automatically <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/10/hide-and-show-the-dock/">hiding</a> the Dock is one of the more useful features you can enable if you work on a Mac with limited screen space. That experience can be improved by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/27/remove-auto-hide-dock-delay-mac-os-x/">removing the auto-hide delay from the Dock</a> in OS X, which reduces the delay from when a mouse is hovered near the Dock to when it’s displayed, but now we’ll show you how to speed up or remove the slide-in and slide-out Dock hide and show animation itself.</p>

<h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Remove Dock Animation Completely</h2>

<p>First up, removing the Dock animation completely, this makes an auto-hiding Dock snap into place immediately. Launch the Terminal and use the following defaults write command:</p>

<p><code>defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock</code></p>

<p>The Dock will automatically restart with the changes taking effect.</p>

<h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Set an Ultra-Fast Dock Hide & Display Animation</h2>

<p>This leaves the Docks animation intact, but speeds it up dramatically. You can adjust this yourself by changing the numbers after the -float flag:</p>

<p><code>defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.12;killall Dock</code></p>

<h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Restore Default Animation Speed</h2>

<p>Return to the OS X default animation speeds with the following defaults write command:</p>

<p><code>defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock</code></p>

<p><em>Thanks to Levi for the tips <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/27/remove-auto-hide-dock-delay-mac-os-x/#comment-366089">in our comments</a>!</em></p>

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