Your dock may be visible or hidden on the bottom or the left or right of your screen.
See and organize your files in the Finder on Mac
The Finder is the home base for your Mac. The Finder icon looks like a blue smiling face; click the icon in the Dock to open a Finder window.
See your stuff
Click items in the Finder sidebar to see your files, apps, downloads, and more. To make the sidebar even more useful, customize it. To make the Finder window even more useful, show the Preview pane.
Choose your view
You can choose how you view the items in Finder windows. For example, you don’t have to view your items in a list—Gallery view lets you flip through your files and folders visually.
Get to know the Mac desktop
At the top of the screen is the menu bar and at the bottom is the Dock. In between is what’s called the desktop. The desktop is where you do most of your work.
You can change the look of your desktop by customizing the desktop picture and by choosing a light or dark appearance for the menu bar, desktop picture, Dock, and built-in apps.
When you open an app, its windows appear over the desktop. If your desktop is covered with windows, you can use Mission Control to see a simple view of everything that’s open so it’s easy to spot the window you need. You can also create and work in additional desktop spaces.
If you like to keep files handy on the desktop, you can use stacks to neatly group them along one side of the desktop—whenever you add a file to the desktop, it automatically goes into a stack.
Use the Dock on Mac
The Dock on the Mac desktop is a convenient place to access apps and features (like Siri, Launchpad, and the Trash) that you’re likely to use every day. The Dock can show up to three recently used apps that aren’t already in the Dock and a folder for items you download from the internet.
