Try These Tricks to Free Up More Screen Space on a Mac

Justin Pot

After that, the dock will disappear, allowing you to use this space for whatever you're working on. When you want to use the dock, you can simply move your mouse pointer to the space on the screen where it was, and it will appear.

You can get a little more space by hiding the menu bar as well. In system settings, go to Control center settings, then adjust the Automatically hide and show the menu bar possibility of Always.

Justin Pot

This will hide the menu bar at the top of the screen the same way you hid the dock before. Obviously this gives you less real estate than hiding the dock, and some people won't like not having a clock on their screen at all times. But it's a bit more space, and I find that not seeing all the icons in my menu bar makes it a bit easier to focus.

Need even more space? If you own an iPad, you can use it as a second monitor for your Mac, as I explained here. Basically, if your iPad is nearby, you can head over to Displays In System Settings, click the + and add your iPad as a screen. I really like using it when I'm on the go: it gives me a little extra space to work when I'm away from my desk and external monitor.