The new “System Integrity Protection” seems to prevent us from deleting useless applications. I just tested this on my Mac (also El Capitan) and can confirm that this does no longer work as of El Capitan. Thank you for reporting this issue with El Capitan. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.Īfter removing the unwanted applications, you can re-enable SIP by following the above steps, and using csrutil enable instead.At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: csrutil disable.From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.Before OS X starts up, hold down Command-R and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar.If you really know what you’re doing, try these steps to disable SIP: One of the visitors of Tweaking4All (Abbey) discovered that these tricks no longer work under El Capitan, and probably will not work under newer MacOS X (or: macOS) versions due to the new “System Integrity Protection” which prevents users from deleting certain files, even when you’re system administrator or use sudo.Ī work around would be by temporary disabling System Integrity Protection, but I advise against doing that. System Integrity Protection with El Capitan (10.1) and higher …
