MacOS – How to remove unwanted preinstalled apps from macOS

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In macOS there are a lot of pre-installed bloatware applications. I know that I will never use them. Examples of such apps are: Chess, Stocks, Messages, TV and so on.

While some of them may not take up much disk space, they are cluttering the application list and Launchpad menu, so I wanted to get rid of them.

When I tried to delete such applications, I got an error saying that I have no permission to do it. So is it possible to remove apple bloatware from macOS?

There was the same question in 2011 and in 2012. They contains info that is no more actual. This question is an update for 2021. I am asking about macOS v10.15.7 (Catalina) or later.

Best Answer

On macOS 10.15.7 Catalina I needed to remount root volume as read-write first:

sudo mount -u -o rw /

Then I made a deletion with:

cd /System/Applications/
sudo rm -rf Chess.app TV.app ...
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