Hide All Desktop Icons in Mac OS X

                                                           

A cluttered desktop can affect your productivity in many ways, but most importantly, it makes it harder to focus your current tasks. If you ever find yourself a situation where icons (app shortcuts, documents, and folders) are piling up over each other on your desktop and that you are too busy to clean it up, please try this quick fix. 

Show/Hide Desktop Icons on a Mac

Hide Desktop Icons in Mac OS X

Go to Applications > Terminal and run the 

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false

command. 

Next, use the 

killall Finder

 command to restart the Finder. Close the terminal and head back your desktop. 

Show Desktop Icons in Mac OS X

To get the desktop icons back, open a Terminal and run the 

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true

 command, followed by 

killall Finder

.

If you have any questions leave a comment.