How To Hide Desktop Icons on Mac OS
158Easy to follow tutorial on hiding all of the desktop icons on your Mac! I'll show you how to do it both via Terminal, and with an App! Learn how to hide your Mac desktop icons now!
Terminal command to hide desktop icons:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false; killall Finder
Terminal command to make hidden icons appear again:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true; killall Finder
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Steps:
- Ill show you two ways of doing this, starting with, by using Terminal commands.
- Start by opening the terminal. You can get there by searching for it or open ‘launchpad’ and find it from your list of apps, mine was in the ‘other’ folder.
- Once you are in a terminal window you want to enter this command and hit enter. check above for the command.
- Hit enter once you’ve pasted it. This will immediately hide every single one of your desktop icons, and they will stay hidden.
- If you want to undo this and make them visible again, simply go back to terminal and enter the second command you can find above.
- If you are not comfortable using Terminal, there is an app from the app store which hides desktop icons for you called ‘HiddenMe’ .
- Once it's installed it will display an icon at the top right of your mac, click it and then select ‘hide desktop icons’ .. you can make them visible again at any time by clicking it again and then selecting ‘show desktop icons’.