Speed up Mission Control animations in macOS Sierra Introduced in macOS Sierra, the user can control how fast the Mission Control animation moves to the “end view”, by how fast the action is performed on a trackpad.

I think the default setting is much too slow, and I don't want to overdo the gesture each time just to get better efficiency out of the animation.

This 2012 article refers to settings like these:

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0; killall Dock


for fast animations, and to reset:

defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration; killall Dock


I have tried them in Sierra and they don't work.

Here is a video of the approximate behaviour of Mission Control (source).
Here's a quick list of animation-related tweaks for macOS Sierra.



Don’t animate opening applications from the Dock

defaults write com.apple.dock launchanim -bool false


Speed up Mission Control animations

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1


Remove the auto-hiding Dock delay

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0


Remove the animation when hiding/showing the Dock

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0


Increase window resize speed for Cocoa applications

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001




Once done, you'll need to killAll Finder &amp;&amp; killAll Dock to restart those programs.

You can find a lot more by searching for "dotfiles", and the source for the changes above (as well as many, many more) can by found in this particular dotfile by Mathias Bynens.