There is a tiny icon on macOS dock that is not clickable!

After Visual Studio Code update, its icon on Dock has changed to a very tiny one which is literally inaccessible!

There is no way you can click on it or view options.

Does anyone know how to remove it from the Dock?

macOS: Mojave (10.14)

Solution 1:

Edit As pointed by many others (@nitive's comment below) there is a much easier way to fix this and it is killall Dock. Kudos to @nitive

Original long, boring, and not so efficient answer

LOL right after posting it, I found the answer

Fist: open the Dock config (plist):

open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist

Second: Find the item in persistent-apps:

Third: Delete the item! In this case, "Item 14"

Forth: Save the file

Fifth: kill the Dock to force it to restart

Honestly, I was expecting it not to have the VS Code icon anymore but magically the icon reappeared there with the right size!

Solution 2:

I'd recommend removing the app from the dock and then opening it again, that should restore the correct icon. There are a few ways to remove an app from the dock:

1. If you can left click the icon you can drag it out.
2. If you can't drag you can Ctrl+Click and choose Options > Keep in Dock.
3. If no clicking is possible you can manually edit the dock plist file.