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How to Add a Spacer to the Dock on Mac

With Supercharge

  1. Open Supercharge, and give it the access that it asks for in “Device Control and Data Access”.
  2. Click its icon in the menu bar, and open its settings.
  3. Click “Tools”.
  4. In “Dock spacers”, click “Add Regular” or “Add Small” in “Main section” for the apps, or in “Trash section” for the side with the Trash.
  5. Drag the spacer in the Dock to where you want it.

A spacer is an empty space that you move like an app icon, so you can put your apps in groups, like work apps and other apps. To remove a spacer, right-click it, and choose to remove it. Supercharge can also make the Dock icons of hidden apps dim, and show the Dock without a delay.

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Platform
macOS
Requires
macOS 26.4 or later
Released
September 2024
Privacy
No personal data collected
Updated
September 2026
Version
1.30.1
Size
16 MB
Gumroad rating
5.0/5 (284 ratings)

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Without an app

macOS has no setting for this, but the Dock still knows spacers. Open the Terminal app, and run this command. It adds a spacer at the end of the apps, and restarts the Dock:

console
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={};tile-type="spacer-tile";}' && killall Dock

Then drag the spacer to where you want it. For a smaller spacer, write small-spacer-tile instead of spacer-tile. To add a spacer on the side with the Trash, write persistent-others instead of persistent-apps. To remove a spacer, drag it out of the Dock.

The command is good if you add a spacer one time. Supercharge does the same with a click, and you do not need to type a command.

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