There are lots of useless widgets in the notification center of macOS, so does anyone knows where these widgets are stored in the system, I want the path to that folder in-order to remove the useless ones to the trash.
MacOS – Path to the Folder where Widgets are stored!
macmacosnotificationswidgets
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Best Answer
Part of CoreServices
The widgets are stored within
/System/Library/CoreServices. They are plug-ins of small applications of the same name.Finding Widgets
Widgets contain an
Info.plistfile containing the textcom.apple.widget-extension. You can use this text to search for other widgets.A full disk search from the command line would be:
System Integrity Protection
Note that these widgets are protected by macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP). This means you can not remove these widgets without first disabling SIP.
Apple recommends you do not modify the contents of the
/Systemfolder on your Mac. Changing the contents of this folder can result in unexpected behaviour from macOS.