Tahoe now wants to put three default widgets on the desktop in the upper left corner (Calendar, Weather, Photos) I don’t mind the weather and calendar widgets but the Photos widget will confuse people who are using this machine in a Lab setting.
How can I control, remove or disallow them during or after setup?
I looked through all the Configuration Profile settings but there doesn’t seem to be any way in the Jamf GUI to address this. Will it require a custom Configuration profile?
Thanks!
Hi
Setting the MDM configuration profile to deploy the key/value:
• Domain: com.apple.WindowManager
• Payload: StandardHideWidgets to true
will disable the new widget from being added automatically after the upgrade.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "https://lnkd.in/g9qumfc8">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>StandardHideWidgets</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Thanks.
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/managing-the-desktop-widget-setting-on-macos-tahoe/
https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/main/DisableDesktopWidgets
StandardHideWidgets will remove them from the desktop.
StageManagerHideWidgets will remove them from stage manager.
I haven’t found a way to remove them from the view you get when you click the desktop wallpaper.
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