Has simple finder gone from Big Sur?

[--R0B--]

In previous releases I could enable the simple finder with:

defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel simple ; killall Finder

In Big Sur that no longer seems to work. Does anyone know if it can be done anymore?

Thanks, regards, Rob.

 

[KALLT]

It appears to be gone since Catalina, when Apple replaced parental controls (where the feature originated) with Screen Time. The toggle for this is not present in the latter.

A quick web search indicates that there is no solution. I have tried to replicate it with a managed profile to rule out that a user default may not work, but I was not successful.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Wow, I just learned that this was apparently removed in Crapalina.

I'm trying to run a single app on a Mac at a show/event. Unfortunately, the Mac has to run 11.0 or newer.

Screen Time sucks and still lets them screw around in the Finder and such, although I was able to make it so that they could not launch any other apps, and Safari can launch but they can't actually load any site. I also emptied the Dock of all but the Finder, Trash, and desired app.

We are actually also running a different app on an old iMac 27" 2009 model and are able to lock it down a lot more.

Does Apple just not give a sh** anymore?

 

[Mike Richardson]

Except now every 5 minutes, I get some popup about how NSSecurityDump tried to access http://apple.bullsh*t.com or some such garbage.

What a dumpster fire.