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How To: Change Your 3D Dock To A 2D Dock
Today, we will take a look at how to transform your dock from the default 3D view to 2D.
All you need to do is locate and open Terminal on your Mac which you will be able to find by going to your Utilities folder which is located in your Applications folder.
Please note that Terminal if used incorrectly can negatively effect your computing experience. For that reason it is imperative that you double check everything you type into terminal before pressing return.
Once terminal is open your will need to type in the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Upon pressing return your dock will be transformed and will look like this:
To return your dock back to the 3D version, as seen below, simply type in the following into the terminal.
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock
