Feb 12

By coincidence I figured that there is an easy way of deleting Widgets from your Dashboard.

Just go ahead and press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget. As you can see the white cross on the left hand side appears and you can delete a widget from your dashboard.

* note from James – This is an oldie but a goodie, I don’t recall if we’ve covered this already or not. I’m sure new mac users will appreciate.

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12 Responses to “Dashboard – quick delete of Widgets”

  1. Steven Says:

    Yep, it’s been posted:
    http://www.leopardtricks.com/leopard/easily-close-widgets

  2. Jesse Says:

    To me (and possibly others), the term “delete” implies completely removing it from the system. In that sense, this will not not delete a widget. It will merely close it.

  3. Stu Says:

    I’m a new mac user, and new to this page – and one of the top things i was trying to figure out how to do. Thanks for repost!

  4. Kevin Says:

    Yeah… This is NO delete. Just removes it from you current DISPLAYED Dashboard Widgets.

    Would be nice if there was a Quick Delete…

  5. Kevin Says:

    BTW.. If you want this removal to go in Super-Slow-Mo. Hold Shift | Option, and click the X.

  6. Joseph Crawford Says:

    This is great, I had some google widgets that were stuck there even after removing the google app and this worked great to remove them :)

  7. Matt S Says:

    THANK YOU!!!! New mac guy here and figured out how to get a widget onto the desktop and not in the dashboard, but then couldn’t get rid of them if I didn’t like! Thanks so much for the tid-bit, loved it.

  8. hussin Says:

    thanks! i know it’s simple but i didnt know how to do it in the 1st palce. so helpful

  9. Gigi Says:

    AMAZING!!!!! THANK-YOU!!!!

  10. lipingacai Says:

    I had a webclip on the dashboard. Then I “soft” removed it from the display using option button, but not shift+option button. S it was not permanently deleted. I am sure it is floating somewhere in the system. Where can I find it and permanently delete it? It is not in the widget folder.

    Tks.

  11. calmstillflat Says:

    If you want to actually delete the widgets from your mac, they are stored here:

    Macintosh HD / Library / Widgets

    Just navigate to that folder in finder and right-click on widget(s) you don’t want and do ‘move to trash’; you might have to type in your password.

    Had to do this to get rid of the widget that was installed for my USB battery charger, which was causing kernel panic.

  12. c0nd3mn3d Says:

    i’m not sure if the op will see this, but why wouldn’t i instead “Just press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget?”

    i really don’t need to “go ahead” and press anything… i just need to press … i’m pretty sure that’d get the job done.

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