# How to Minimize an App by Clicking Its Dock Icon on Mac

Updated: November 12, 2026

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A click on the Dock icon of the active app does nothing on a Mac. Option-click the icon to hide the app, or press Command+H to hide it or Command+M to minimize the window. To make a plain click minimize or hide the app, like on Windows, use [Supercharge](https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge).

## With Supercharge

1. Open [Supercharge](https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge), and give it the access that it asks for in [“Device Control and Data Access”](https://sindresorhus.com/apps/faq#device-control-access).
1. Open the Supercharge settings, and click “Tweaks”.
1. In the “Dock” section, set “When clicking an active app in the Dock” to “Minimize Windows”, “Hide App”, or “Cycle Through Windows”.
1. Click the Dock icon of the active app.

With “Hide App”, a click on the icon shows the app again. With “Minimize Windows”, a click brings back one window. To bring back all of them, turn on “Unminimize all windows instead of one when clicking Dock icon” in the same section. It only works when the app has at least one window that is not minimized. “Cycle Through Windows” only goes through the windows in the current space. Some apps that are not native, like some Adobe apps, do not work with it.

## Without an app

- **Hide the app:** Option-click its Dock icon. macOS hides the app and switches to the previous app. Or press Command+H.
- **Minimize the window:** Press Command+M, or click the yellow button of the window.

[Apple’s instructions.](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-the-dock-mh35859/mac) Option-click does almost the same. Supercharge is for when you click the icon by habit, like on Windows.