macOs Debloating thread

[bogdanw]

Can SIP be re-enabled after running this script?

Re-enabling SIP will re-enable the launch agents/daemons.

 

[fibrecell]

Ah, thanks for the confirmation.

 

[bogdanw]

Disable-Sonoma-Bloatware.sh https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/812997a189f72f3953e0a1bb237f783d

 

[bogdanw]

Disable-Sequoia-Bloatware.sh https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b349f5f72097955cf18d6e7d8035c665#file-disable-sequoia-bloatware-sh
macOS-Launch_Agents-and-Launch_Daemons.txt
https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b34...le-macos-launch_agents-and-launch_daemons-txt

 

[Minghold]

Killing News (in Mojave): From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks. (My next mission is killing Safari too, since it's been rendered useless by Apple planned-obsolescence anyway.)

 

[Andy_2341]

Killing News (in Mojave): From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks. (My next mission is killing Safari too, since it's been rendered useless by Apple planned-obsolescence anyway.)

Awesome, I hate News. I’m curious by what you mean with Safari though. Apple is getting rid of it?

 

[gilby101]

Apple is getting rid of it?

No. My interpretation of @Minghold's comment is that Apple does not update old versions of Safari (like that in Mojave) to keep up with changes in web site/application standards. So either you have to update to current macOS or use a 3rd-party browser for at least some of the web. Apple locks Safari to operating system updates (iOS, iPadOS, macOS). Just today I had to update my wife's iPad from early iPadOS 17 to 18.1 so that she could access a particular web site. So I know how @Minghold feels.

 

[Andy_2341]

No. My interpretation of @Minghold's comment is that Apple does not update old versions of Safari (like that in Mojave) to keep up with changes in web site/application standards. So either you have to update to current macOS or use a 3rd-party browser for at least some of the web. Apple locks Safari to operating system updates (iOS, iPadOS, macOS). Just today I had to update my wife's iPad from early iPadOS 17 to 18.1 so that she could access a particular web site. So I know how @Minghold feels.

Oh okay. Sorry for not understanding. That’s pretty stupid that its tied to OS version. Explains why my old 5S can’t access some sites though.

 

[Minghold]

Oh okay. Sorry for not understanding. That’s pretty stupid that its tied to OS version. Explains why my old 5S can’t access some sites though.

It's not "stupid"; it's planned.

Always invert Hanlon's Razor.

 

[bogdanw]

If I remember correctly, all preinstalled apps can be deleted in Mojave with SIP disabled or from Recovery.
As Apple no longer updates Safari for Monterey, I am currently testing Orion, available for Mojave -> Sequoia https://kagi.com/orion/#download_sec

 

[Minghold]

If I remember correctly, all preinstalled apps can be deleted in Mojave with SIP disabled or from Recovery.
As Apple no longer updates Safari for Monterey, I am currently testing Orion, available for Mojave -> Sequoia https://kagi.com/orion/#download_sec

With Retroactive installed (and even without it), Mojove is the most widely compatible (and customizable) version of the Mac OS since Tiger. DosDude1 and/or OCLP patches enable it to run on systems back to 2008 (where it does just fine on rotational-drives so long as it's running in an HFS+ partition, and you've shut off all the usual MRT, ReportCrash, Spotlight, and other logging and auto-sync garbage in Terminal).