Apple Music still shows on recent dock

[rvp-diconium]

Gotta start with the big thank you!
Clicking the microphone button on my headphones (Bose 700) launching Music while on a video-call was horrible.

This application mostly works, but I've noticed the Music app still shows app as a recent on the dock (see attachment)
I've already google it and apparently there's some way of messing with plist and editing stuff to hide a certain app of ever showing up, but I wonder if there's a automatically way of achieving it with your app.

So the behaviour I've noticed is:

• Music is not in the dock (I never use it)
• In a meeting / video-call
• Click the microphone button to mute/unmute myself (it mutes only on the headphone itself, not on Teams)
• I check the Dock, and the Music show up there as "recent"

Running on macOs BigSur 11.3.1 / intel hardware

Thanks!

[tombonez]

Hi @rvp-diconium 👋

Great suggestion 👍

This should be possible, the only problem I can foresee with this though is that the dock process will need killing to show its updated state.

This means that both the menubar and dock will vanish and re-appear every-time this process is run.

To see this behaviour yourself you can run the following in Terminal:
killall Dock

Hopefully there's a workaround for this 🤞

Cheers,
Tom 🙂

[kiararey]

You should be able to remove recent applications from showing up as a quick fix for now!

Right click on the dock bar >> Dock preferences >> Disable "Show recent applications in Dock".

This will also prevent any other recent apps from showing up though.