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

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.

I can accept that as maybe you are using Mac since 50 years ago. 😂

Only 40. It's not possible to have been using a Macintosh for 50 years.

khofidin wrote:

I don't know why level 9 user can say something like this :). Many of users said that this was a bug, even Apple bring it back the function in version 15.1. Wanna stand with your thoughts?

Just because there was a change, does not mean it is a bug. It is a bug only if the change was not intended.

I am fully aware of what the change was. The only situation that is different is when there are three displays.

This (with two displays) was NEVER possible:

This USED to be possible - assuming there was enough of the top left display area to "bump into the bottom" without crossing to the lower display:

This at present does not work. Is it a bug? I don't know. You and others think it is.

You can and should and probably have reported it.

If the change was unintended, then it will probably be reverted. If it was deliberate, then it is not a bug and will not be "fixed". Only Apple can decide that, not any of us.

I am a new in this forum just to report this bug, but I have been using MBP for about 12 years for developing software. But if you said that I'm a beginner, I can accept that as maybe you are using Mac since 50 years ago. 😂

I have been using a Mac since 39 years ago, a little less time than Barney 😎. The mac came out in 1984, and I happened to be one of the first people in my country, Portugal, to use one in 1985, and never stopped. There were a small number 128K and 512K macs at my university at the time.

I have only personally owned one for 30 years (I fondly remember my Quadra 840AV that I bought in 1994)

Barney has more eloquently than me explained how the Dock and Launchpad cater to users from other backgrounds, and how using just the keyboard with Spotlight is faster than reaching for the mouse or trackpad. I completely agree with him. My Dock is always on the side, and hidden. I never touch it.

A big waste of space in a small screen, a lot of wrist work to reach on a large screen.

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.

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.

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

I have the exact same problem. I have a desktop monitor on a stand, with my MacBook Pro below that. In other words, the screens are vertically aligned, where my desktop monitor is configured as my primary display.

Before I could just hoover the mouse at the bottom of my main display, and the dock would move there. This does not work anymore in macOS Sequoia.

Upgraded last night and could no longer use the mouse to put the dock at the bottom of my external monitor.

I have my arrangement with my external above my MacBook Pro with no seam. Nothing changed except the upgrade.

worked with Apple support and they say “works as designed.” Apparently the dock now “falls” to the bottom of the arrangement stack and is immovable. I adjusted the arrangement to side by side and the dock went to my external display. While this is a workaround, it’s not ideal and I hope they put it back the way it was with the next version.

So it's definitely a bug that needs to be addressed.

That may be, but wanting to have the Dock in a position where it is right in the center of your compound screen is something that I still cannot understand. I know that different people work in different ways, but still... more screens for more real estate, and then waste you space front and center with the Dock. Oh well...

Thanks - that worked for me. It also solves a long term issue as with my work pattern I prefer the dock to not appear on my left hand external monitor, so creating a gap on the right but not the left eliminated the "seam" issue that some commenters are bleating about. Thanks again.

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?

Another vote to restore this function. I have an external monitor up above my MacBook Pro, and I used to be able to access the dock in the upper monitor. No more after my upgrade to Sequoia... I would like to have the dock in both monitors, please!

adiebaker wrote:

Sorry Barney but you're just plain wrong. This has worked for as long as I can remember (I've had a Mac for about 15 years) as described by others. It's just broken in Sequoia. Not sure why you think we'd overshoot the bar at the bottom of the screen, I think everyone using a computer nowadays can navigate using a mouse very accurately. Who wants to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the lowest monitor to open an app? Apple just need to fix it and give users back what they're used to and want.

The Dock is like training wheels for a beginner mac user. Who uses THREE displays and still feels the need to use the Dock just to open an app?

NOT ONLY CAN YOU NOT MOVE THE DOCK BUT WITH THE 15.0.1 UPDATE YOU HAVE NOW LOST THE MENU BAR AT THE TOP OF THE SECOND MONITOR AND WHEN YOU SCROLL TO A DIFFERENT DESKTOP ON ONE MONITOR, IT MOVES THE OTHER ONE TOO - TO A COMPLETELY BLANK SCREEN,

I LEFT WINDOWS AND PC YEARS AGO FOR THIS KIND OF NONSENSE, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER APPLE - THIS IS A BIG INCONVENIENCE.

You are shouting, so allow me: USER ERROR!

You have disable "Displays have separate Spaces".

Turn it back on in System Settings->Desktop & Dock, log out and back in, and you will have the menu bar in each display... and er... separate Spaces (aka "Desktops") in each display.