How to hide external drives on Mac desktop

When you connect external drives or mount volumes on your Mac, macOS displays them as icons on the desktop by default. If you don't want to see these drives on your desktop, you can change a setting in macOS to hide them.

When this setting is enabled, the drive will not appear on your desktop, giving you a more minimalist visual experience, and you can still access the drive contents through the Finder. The following steps show you how it's done.

1. Click the Finder icon in the Dock to make sure it is active, then click the Finder menu bar and select Settings... from the drop-down menu (or in older versions Select Preferences in macOS...) .
2. Click the General tab if it is not already selected.
3. Uncheck the box next to External disks. (You can also uncheck the boxes next to CD, DVD, and iPod if you don't want them to appear on the desktop when connected.)
4. Click the red traffic light to close Finder settings.

#The changes should take effect immediately—any external drives connected to your Mac will no longer show up on the desktop. To access any connected drive or media, open a Finder window and you will be able to select them in the sidebar.

Also, there's a simple Terminal command that turns the Dock into a more straightforward app switcher by making it display only the apps currently running on your Mac.

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