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.
In testing, this seems to hide the widgets but doesn’t actually give you back the real estate to use. Is there a way to actually turn them off?
To get the use of the real estate back, you have to delete all widgets manually (right click, Remove Widget). Once they are all removed, then you get the real estate back. Simply turning them off in Settings doesn’t give the real estate back.
HTH!
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