Here's how to remove the useless, annoying forward + back arrows on desktop PDF icon previews
Another community member shared most of the solution for how to remove the arrows for PDF icon previews on the desktop. I wanted to clarify something but the thread was closed.
As he said, the arrows are annoying because they don't "leave much room for grabbing the icon to move it. The icon is too small to see the pages in the PDF anyway, so I just want those arrows gone. There should be a setting somewhere but I can't find it."
The solution seems to be under the "show view options" menu for the desktop (right-click or two-finger click on the desktop to bring up the menu). You'll find a "show icon preview" box that is likely checked. Now, what he said was to uncheck the box to solve the problem.
However: When you uncheck the box, all your pngs and other files on your desktop no longer show any previews. So that's not good. But what I found was that — when you RECHECK the box to "show view options" — all the previews are back but the annoying, useless arrows are gone. So that's what I hoped would be helpful to people.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.0
