How can I remove Chess from my mac? [duplicate]
I tried to remove Chess.app from my Mac:
- Moving to Trash: “Chess.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.
- Trying to change permissions for everyone in Get Info: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.
- chmod 755 Chess.app/ in Terminal works, but then doing sudo rm -rf Chess.app/: long list including rm: Chess.app/: Operation not permitted
So how can I remove it?
Chess.app is, as everything else installed by default, protected by SIP and can't be removed. If you absolutely want to reclaim the 5mb used by the application you can
- Reboot into Recovery Mode to disable SIP
- Reboot normally, log in and remove Chess.app
- Reboot into Recovery Mode to enable SIP
- Reboot normally
- (and then repeat this with every macOS upgrade)
See How do I disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) AKA "rootless" on OS X 10.11, El Capitan? for details about disabling/enabling SIP.