2 Safari.app’s exist in the system on macOS 10.15.5 19F101

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After upgrading my system to 10.15.5 19F101 (late May update, 2020), I found that there are 2 Safari.app's in the system – one is /Applications/Safari.app, and the other one is /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app.

I want to remove the latter one (sudo rm -rf won't work) as I don't use it and it also shows up in Alfred search results which is annoying. How do I do that?

Edit: ACL / Permissions for the 2nd Safari.app

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app'
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root  wheel  96 May 29 00:42 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications/Safari.app
 0: group:everyone deny delete

And for it's parent directory:

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications'           
drwxrwxr-x+ 4 root  admin  128 Jun 14 23:46 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/Applications
 0: group:everyone deny delete

For the parent-parent directory:

/bin/ls -led '/System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/'            
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  224 Jun  3 16:12 /System/Volumes/Data/Previous System/

Best Answer

In the Finder, navigate to the Safari you don't want, drag it to the Trash, and empty the Trash. During the process, you'll probably be asked to authenticate yourself as an administrator.

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