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How To Delete Mac OS X Default Apps
Mar 11, 2025
A video talking about getting around Apple's restrictions to delete default apps.
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hey everyone today I'm gonna show you
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can delete some of the default Mac OS 10
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applications so when you get your Mac
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there might be some apps installed that
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you never use and that you don't really
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want and if you try to delete them by
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going up into the finder and into your
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Applications folder and let's say I
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tried to delete something like QuickTime
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Player I put it in the trash it's gonna
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tell me it can't be modified or deleted
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because it's required by Mac os10
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now some of these apps for example
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photobooth stickies they all do the same
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thing they tell you they can't be
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deleted they actually can be ruined
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well some of them like Safari are
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critical to the system performing the
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way it should be and aren't really
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recommended to be deleted so I
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originally ran across a post on OS 10
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daily that showed a terminal way to
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delete these apps and I'll show you that
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here because it's actually pretty handy
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so if you open up a new terminal window
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you're going to want to go to your
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Applications folder so I'm gonna type in
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the CD space slash applications and
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slash again now I'm in my Applications
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folder now whatever application I want
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to delete I can use the Sam command for
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over and over so I'm just gonna do a
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quick backup of stickies here so that
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it's not deleted and I'm going to type
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in sudo space RM space dash RF space and
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then stickies that app so now if I hit
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enter you're going to see it asked me
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for my password let's write that in and
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the applications gone from my
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Applications folder so I can move
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stickies back into here and this this
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solution works pretty well actually and
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it's it's very fast but the only issue
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with it is working with commands like
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sudo are pretty deep system level
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commands and if you you know type the
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wrong thing and you don't know what
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you're doing you could kind of mess
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things up and if you're just kind of a
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new user with terminal it's probably not
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something you want to be messing with so
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I actually found a way that you can do
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this using completely the finder and
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nothing else this example I'm going to
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use QuickTime Player
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but this works the same for all the
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default apps that you want to delete so
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all I have to do is right click on it
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and select get info and in this quick
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time player info box you can see the
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issue as to why it won't delete and that
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is because the sharing and permissions
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section for the default apps is set up
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so that it can't be deleted so all I
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have to do is click on this lock button
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right here and it's gonna ask me for my
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password again and once I have that
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entered I can change all these
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privileges to read and write so this
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will allow full system access to all
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these and then I can click the lock icon
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again so now you can see when I drag
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QuickTime Player to the trash it goes
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down there and it goes in the trash
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without any complaining at all and you
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can empty the trash and you'll be just
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fine so that's all there is to it and
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it's a very easy way that you can do
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this right in finder so there's how you
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can delete your default system apps in
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Mac OS 10 and once again it's not
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recommended to do this for things like
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Safari because some of the components in
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them are kind of required by the system
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and some functionality you might be
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missing if you do that but for other
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ones like stickies and things like that
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photobooth it's just fine if there's
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anything that you'd like to see me do a
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how-to one make sure to send me an email
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I hope you found this video useful and
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thank you for watching
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