If you use a particular System Preferences pane frequently on your Mac, you can easily place a link to it in your Dock for quick access. In fact, you can link as many preference secti*** there as you’d like. Here’s how.

On a Mac, each section of System Preferences is traditionally called a “preference pane.” The behavior of each preference pane is handled by a file in located in your macOS System Library folder. The neat thing about these files is that if you open them, they act as links that directly take you to their corresponding section in System Preferences. That means you can drag the files to your Dock and use them to quickly access various system settings.

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To do that, we first need to locate the preference pane files using Finder. Activate Finder and select Go > Go to Folder from the menu bar.

In the “Go to folder” window or slider that appears, type (or paste) /System/Library/PreferencePanes.

接下来，您将看到一个Finder窗口，其中填充了表示各种首选项窗格的文件。这些是默认情况下随macOS提供的系统首选项。（如果您正在寻找第三方首选项窗格文件，请访问/Library/PreferencePanes。）每个文件都有一个“.prefPane”扩展名。

滚动窗口，直到找到表示要添加到Dock的首选项窗格的文件。例如DateAndTime.prefPane是“日期和时间”首选项窗格的文件。单击并将首选项窗格文件拖到Dock的文件和文件夹快捷方式区域，该区域位于垃圾桶附近。

You’ll notice that if you try to drag the files to the left side (or upper portion, depending on how you have your Dock oriented) of the Dock, you won’t be able to. That section is reserved for applicati*** only.

After that, any time you want to change a particular setting in one of the preference panes, just click its icon in the Dock, and System Preferences will automatically open to that section.

If you’d like to remove a preference pane from the dock, simply drag its icon far away from the dock, hold for a moment, then release.