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TIL that in recent versions of macOS,…

TIL that in recent versions of macOS, most stock apps can't be deleted by the user. Want to delete News? LaunchPad won't let you. Command-Delete ain't it. It'll bounce right off the trash.

What gives? It's because they're not really in /Applications anymore. They're installed in /System/Applications and that's a read-only APFS partition. Neat.


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