uninstall macOS apps

[sageman72]

so I don't really use the Music, Podcasts and TV apps, is it ok to remove them or are they so imbedded into macOS it would just cause trouble?

 

[kohlson]

It's unlikely you could all traces of these, and even then it would be without inadvertently affecting something else. Are you running short on space?

 

[chabig]

Don’t. It’s ok to keep software on your computer that you don’t use, but especially software that is part of the standard system installation.

 

[sageman72]

not absolutely needed due to space or anything no, it's just my fetish for having as clean a system as possible that's kicking in I guess..I´ll ignore it, thanks

 

[revmacian]

not absolutely needed due to space or anything no, it's just my fetish for having as clean a system as possible that's kicking in I guess..I´ll ignore it, thanks

I know how you feel.. I'd like to delete those apps as well as News. I don't think it would hurt anything to put them in a folder in the back of Launcher or the Applications tab of Finder. Might help you a bit.

 

[NoBoMac]

Yeah, just leave them be. Some of them, might not be an issue if deleted, others...

Taking a wild guess here, as have not tried to mess around with the stock apps. The stock apps are all in /System/Applications folder, except for Safari, which is installed in the user space /Applications.

Anything in /System/Applications is under System Integrity Protection (SIP). Additionally, if you have an SSD, it's in APFS format. The System level stuff is in a read-only partition. From what I've seen on the interwebs, at minimum, need to disable SIP, and might have to stay in Recovery Mode and mount the read-only partition as read/write. Command line to delete things.

And once gone, if want/need to recover what was deleted, need to re-install the OS, as the stock apps are not in App Store.

 

[revmacian]

Anything in /System/Applications is under System Integrity Protection (SIP). Additionally, if you have an SSD, it's in APFS format. The System level stuff is in a read-only partition. From what I've seen on the interwebs, at minimum, need to disable SIP, and might have to stay in Recovery Mode and mount the read-only partition as read/write. Command line to delete things.

I ran nothing but GNU/Linux and BSD for almost 20 years and what you mentioned seems like a lot of work for very little gain. I realize it can be done, but my mind says "why bother?".. especially since there is no guarantee that the work won't cause issues elsewhere.

 

[sashavegas]

that what i did

#!/bin/bash

# IMPORTANT: You will need to disable SIP aka Rootless in order to fully execute this script, you can reenable it after.

    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Home.app
    echo "[OK] Home"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Dashboard.app
    echo "[OK] Dashboard.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/FaceTime.app
    echo "[OK] FaceTime.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/News.app
    echo "[OK] News.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Messages.app
    echo "[OK] Messages.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Siri.app
    echo "[OK] Siri.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Photos.app
    echo "[OK] Photos.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Stocks.app
    echo "[OK] Stocks.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/VoiceMemos.app
    echo "[OK] VoiceMemos.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Stickies.app
    echo "[OK] Stickies.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Maps.app
    echo "[OK] Maps.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/Photo\ Booth.app
    echo "[OK] Photos.app"
    
    sudo rm -rf /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app
    echo "[OK] QuickTime"

and everything is working just fine