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Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.

Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MacOS not iPhone. Should have specified

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what sudo rm -rf is for 😇. I’m going to try this on my Mac to satisfy my curiosity! Will report back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only it were that easy. You have to disable SIP basically permanently if you want to do that and I'm not confident enough to do that quite yet, much as I do love to live dangerously. Maybe someone who understands this all better might chime in on the tradeoffs or risks/benefits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m kinda shocked that it didn’t work (tried it)! From what I’ve come to understand, the system won’t boot after removing a stock app since the checksum of the system partition changes. Whilst I’m in favour of keeping the OS healthy that way, some of the stock apps should definitely not have been included in that partition. However, today I learned!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yes but you can bury a "CrApple" folder on the last page