How to hide Desktop Icons on my MacBook with macOS Ventura?

Open the apple in upper left corner of your desktop>system settings, select Desktop & Doc. Under Desktop & Stage Manager unclick "on desktop." All of your stuff stops showing on your desktop and you still have full icloud connectivity (syncing, etc).

NewtsFlight wrote:

Hello, how do I hide the desktop icons on a MacBook Air (M2)?

any help will be most appreciated

Move them to some other directory if you do not want to see them on the Desktop...(?)

iCloud Drive will move them off the Desktop

ref: Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive