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how_to_hide_wireless_icon

  • November 4, 2016
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Has anyone had success hiding the Wireless icon in the Menu bar? I'm not sure how to go about editing the plist.

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  • Valued Contributor
  • November 4, 2016

https://github.com/gmarnin/Profiles/blob/master/Airport%20Menubar%20Disable.mobileconfig

I saw this a while back.


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  • Honored Contributor
  • November 4, 2016

Why would you need to hide the icon? I have a policy that disables the wireless, any the user has to an admin to be able to get into System Prefs to make any change


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  • Valued Contributor
  • November 5, 2016

@steve.bills It seems to work. I threw it into text wrangler on my Mac and changed the organization, etc. and saved it as a .mobileconfig. Upload it to the JSS and scope.


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  • Contributor
  • November 5, 2016

@steve.bills If the solution provided by jared_f works, then kudos. For my curiosity, what are the requirement(s) in your organization to hide the icon?


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  • November 7, 2016

@SeanA - Members of our network team are concerned that users will try to enable the wireless on their Mac Mini's. I put a policy in place over the weekend that shuts off the wireless on those devices now. I haven't had a opportunity to work on the hiding the icon. I'm in CCT training this week so I will play around with the icon next week.


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  • November 8, 2016

This profile appears to be working on my 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra test computers.

Users can play cat-and-mouse by manually enabling the Wi-Fi (AirPort) icon from the Network preference pane, but the icon ultimatley will get removed over and over again by the profile.