If you don’t like it you can always turn it off the exact same way you enabled it. To activate Desktop Stacks, ensure you are running at least macOS Mojave 10.14.x or newer, click anywhere on your Desktop so Finder is displayed in the Application Menu upper left hand corner, View, and select “Use Stacks.” You’ll notice all of your documents, screenshots, folders, and photos organized in a very clean and tidy way! Now of course you can still always view all your data via the Finder Window Desktop location, but if you haven’t discovered this awesome feature give it a try. This “Clean Up” feature would basically snap all files into a grid format on your desktop to tidy things up a bit. Now I feel this feature evolved from the “Clean Up” option in the Application Menu in Finder that has been around for quite some time. This clever feature is called “Desktop Stacks”. Declutter helps you to create intelligent folders with rules based on file names and extensions so that it can automatically move the files to respective folders on desktop and keep the desktop clean always.

Apple is well aware of user habits with saving documents, screenshots, photos, etc on the desktop and introduced a feature a few years back in macOS Mojave (2018) to solve this. Declutter is the solution to a problem that every Mac user faces - Desktop clutter. We have all been guilty of it from time to time, and that’s saving absolutely everything on our Mac’s Desktop.

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