Is there a way to delete the Apple News app in Big Sur?

[bogdanw]

I don't want my preteen kids finding and launching the News app

Unfortunately, Apple has depreciated blacklisting apps with ParentalControls
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/parentalcontrolsapplicationrestrictions
You can block News from launching with Santa, example here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/terminal-for-dummies.2352379/post-32144947
Let me know if something is not clear.

 

[Sciuriware]

I found this thread also hoping to find a way to delete the News app. I see some members just saying hide it or don't use it, my problem is I recently decided to use my old iMac as our family computer and I don't want my preteen kids finding and launching the News app reading about some mass shooting or all the other crazy stuff in today's news. This wasn't very well thought out by Apple (or maybe it was .

I know it's just a kludge, but I wrote my own stage manager decades ago and recently I added a function
that deletes all 'news' every hour.
Yes, ....

;JOOP!

 

[Minghold]

P.S
in Mojave it was easy, in Catalina it was relativly easy , you still can mount volume by ussing "sudo mount -uw/"
BUT Big Sur, uses snapshot, so you cannot mount it the way in Catalina, and once you done messing your system, you need to create new snapshot, by using "blessing" comand.

In Mojave: From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks.

or you could just not open the app... ...

That would defeat the purpose of murdering that scurrilous spigot of unvarnished propaganda on principle.

 

[halledise]

In Mojave: From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks.

That would defeat the purpose of murdering that scurrilous spigot of unvarnished propaganda on principle.

turn off the spigot.
bury the app inside Utilities folder and forget.
it's pretty much all bad news these days anyway.
best way to give oneself indigestion and start an argument is to switch on the news with the evening meal …

 

[fisherking]

In Mojave: From Recovery (or HFS+ recovery-partition), launch Terminal and enter rm -r "/Volumes/[name of your boot drive]/Applications/News.app" WITH the quote marks.

That would defeat the purpose of murdering that scurrilous spigot of unvarnished propaganda on principle.

personally, i'm strong enough not to open apps i don't need or use... that i can't delete. i just get on with the day

 

[Minghold]

turn off the spigot.
bury the app inside Utilities folder and forget.
it's pretty much all bad news these days anyway.
best way to give oneself indigestion and start an argument is to switch on the news with the evening meal …

(...)

personally, i'm strong enough not to open apps i don't need or use... that i can't delete. i just get on with the day

You don't understand: That scurrilous spigot of lies must die in a fire, and I couldn't care less if it only sipped a kilobyte of ram and drive-space.

"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complacency." --Thomas Paine