I don’t see any options in the docker desktop for mac for not showing the docker icon on the menu bar.
Is that even possible?
If yes, then how is that?
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If you had asked me about a year ago (maybe) I would have told you that you could go to the menu and choose “Quit Docker Desktop” to close the UI and possibly remove the icon from the menu bar, but today I am not sure if I remember well, because I remember I had some problem with having Docker desktop running when I thought I stopped it and it turned out it was just the UI. So either I remember wrong or some day that confusion was removed and stopping Docker and quitting from Docker Desktop became the same. If someone remembers it, please, let us know 
Now I don’t know any Docker Desktop setting to remove the icon, but there is an app in the App store called Hidden Bar which I tried now and worked. You can drag the small arrow icon to the right side of the menu bar then drag the icons that you want to hide to the left side of the “|” icon. When you click on the arrow, it will hide the icons on the left side of “|”. just make sure the arrow is not on the left side where the hidden icons should be, because then it will not work.
I tried it out.
It didn’t seem good to me. Since itself uses almost an icon in the menu bar.
So it seems like it can be a feature request.
If you have too many icons, you can hide more icons and replace multiple icons with one. Isn’t it why you want to hide it? Or do you want to run it in the background while someone else uses the mac so they can’t stop it accidentally? If that’s the case, then yes, you can try to open a feature request
Well both having too many icons and preventing accidental stop of the engine are good reasons to hide the menu icon.
This definitely would be a nice feature to have. Quitting the Docker Desktop app stops docker daemon. So, it’s not an option.