# Safari and Arc Still Share One Dock Icon

> Both browsers can keep several identities. The awkward part is that the Dock still launches one app, and the last-used identity often comes with it.

Source: https://dockspark.app/en/blog/switch-safari-and-arc-profiles-from-the-dock

## The icon does not know which identity you meant

Safari profiles and Arc profiles both solve a real problem: one browser, several accounts. The Dock does not see that distinction. Click the icon, and the browser usually reopens whichever identity you used last.

That is fine when you live in one context. It is less fine when the same Safari icon is personal mail, a client account, and a test login.

## Safari’s profile list arrives too late

Safari can separate cookies, history, and extensions without adding a second browser to the Dock. The limitation is timing. If the profile list only appears after Safari is already open, you have already started in the wrong place: the wrong avatar, the wrong cookies, sometimes the wrong tab from last time.

A more useful sequence is the one you already use to launch the app. Look at the Dock, then choose Personal, Work, or a client profile before the first page loads.

DockSpark does not create Safari profiles. Create them in Safari first, give them names you can recognize in a compact panel, then hover the Safari icon and pick before the window appears.

## Arc can be orderly inside and still guess at launch

Arc keeps a large amount of browsing in one app. Once you are inside, spaces and profiles can feel orderly. The first click from the Dock is still a guess: which identity is about to open?

A hover panel next to the Arc icon does not replace Arc’s own layout. It only answers the earlier question: which Arc identity should this click belong to. As with Safari, add the profile in the browser first, then make it available from the Dock.

## Keep the gesture the same

Safari, Arc, Google Chrome, and the other supported browsers can share the same kind of Dock interaction. Hover, choose, continue. You do not need a different launcher for each app, and you do not need a second copy of Safari or Arc in the Dock just to keep identities apart.

The useful change is small: the identity choice happens at the same moment you already reach for the browser.