Most users The x he prefers to keep it Desktop clean and orderly and not to display too much icons on it to avoid crowding. But there are enough people who don't always take this into account and whose desktops often end up with a messy look (usually when we are saving a file or We install an application, in the vast majority of cases they implicitly place icons on the desktop as well). In certain situations, however, even users from the second category need (at least temporarily) one clean desktop for various reasons (let's say you want to make a screenshot and you don't want to advertise your desktop).

In case and the Mac desktop yours is crowded and you want to hide all displayed icons/files on it (but you don't want to delete them), you can do this very simply using the instructions below.

How can we hide all the icons on the desktop of a Mac?

• open Applications and select Utilities, then open Terminal
• In the open window type command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false And give Enter
• then restartati Finderusing the command killall Finder

After using these commands, you will notice that all icons from the desktop (without exception) were hidden, leaving the desktop clean.

If later you want to redisplay the icons on the Mac desktop, use the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true, then restart again Finder-ul using the command killall Finder.

Note: Icons and hidden files on the desktop can still be accessed from the Finder > Desktop.

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