remove widget showing battery life 26.0.1

Secondary click (control-click, two finger click) on the Desktop and select Edit Widgets, then click the (–) at the upper left corner of the widget you want to delete.

amgreven wrote:

I have followed your advice but no minus sign appears - only the plus. Now I have two widgets showing battery life on my home screen.

Control-click the desktop, select Edit Widgets then you need to click the (–) on the battery widget itself, not the (+) on the battery widget in the Widgets pane.

The alternate method suggested by JohannesU also works. With the widget 'active' you cannot control-click then remove it, but with the widget in the background (when another window is active and the desktop is not being shown, then you can control click and remove. The battery levels need to be clear, not green, for it to work.

Control-click works:

Control-click doesn't work:

Not sure why your iMac would have that widget but most widgets can be removed with right-click remove(or delete)

Yep, that’s a bug. Should be able to delete the ‘active’ battery widget as other widgets can be deleted. Or move the widgets pane. Or both.

Bugs can be reported to Apple here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

tbirdvet wrote:

Not sure why your iMac would have that widget but most widgets can be removed with right-click remove(or delete)

The key word there is 'most'. A secondary click on most widgets pops up a contextual menu with an option to Remove Widget...but not for any of the Batteries widgets.

Use the alternate method I mentioned.

Wow, this worked! I was stuck and tried the control click when the widget wasn't on an active screen. I thought I was stuck. Thanks a ton for putting it out here.

Let's just say that the certain things in Tahoe could use some more polish. I placed the battery widget on the lower part of my screen, and i had problems removing it at all:

1. Right clicking this particular widget does *not* bring up a context menu for the widget, just a context menu as if you right-clicked the desktop.
2. I can still remove by widgets by right clicking the Desktop and selecting "Edit Widgets..."; then every widget shows a (-) minus button to remove it. But that also brings up a window with new widgets you can add, covering the lower part of the screen... This blocked view of my battery widget, and closing that window leaves "Edit Widgets" mode. I was stuck.

(You'll have to take my word for it; there's a battery widget behind that window.)

Anyway, I found a workaround: If you open a window so your desktop loses focus, your widgets will dim, right? If you right click the Battery widget while it is in a dimmed state, you get the correct context menu and can remove the widget.

System Setting >> Desktop & Dock

Perhaps and maybe if you used the Auto Show / Hide the Dock, that is located on the Left Edge of the screen

It may have given a bit more Real Estate and would not require jumping through hoops you undertake ?

I do not know for sure as I done fuss about batteries

If I what to the the laptop battery I just click the Icon in the Menu Bar

Battery condition for bluetooth mouse, also Bluetooth Icon in menu bar