Uninstall iTunes on Mac with Permission. The reason why you can't uninstall iTunes by simply dragging the app icon to Trash is that you don't have the proper permission of the app. Here are what you should do. Step 1: In the Finder, open Applications folder. Step 2: Find the iTunes.app file and right click on it. Step 3: Select Get Info and click the lock icon to enter the Admin password of your Mac. How to Permanently Delete Apps from iTunes On Mac. Deleting apps from iTunes is possible on Mac even if your iDevice is being synced. However, iTunes might tell you that there are some apps on your iDevice that aren’t on your Mac. Ignore this prompt and proceed to delete apps permanently from iTunes. Follow these instructions.
There is no application that speaks Apple more than iTunes. First introduced in 2001, iTunes has become lot of things over the years — media store, player, and library, internet radio, music & video streaming service. It has come a long way, gradually introducing and perfecting features.
Despite earning the spot of go-to media hub in hearts of many, iTunes is still, unfortunately, not impeccable and has been reported to have bugs causing it to misbehave. Not to mention that excessive library items can get pretty overwhelming too. This guide, however, is here to help get these issues sorted out.
How to Delete Music from iTunes on Mac
Apple Music subscription makes it extremely easy to find and add new songs. You find a cool tune on iTunes featured playlist, end up checking out the artist and adding an entire album, and before you know it — you’re already exploring tons of stuff from similar artists. Point is, iTunes library can quickly get out of control. This can lead to having a ton of storage taken up by media that is rarely being put to use.
All in all, inevitably you end up having to regain free space on your main drive, tidy up your library and remove the music you don’t listen to (you can always download it back again as easily). Here’s how you can do it:
- Open iTunes
- Select Library tab
- Ctrl-click on the album you want to remove
- Choose Delete from Library
- Confirm you want to delete the item in the popped up screen
- Hit Move to Trash again to move the file to Trash
You can hit Keep file but your item will not be removed from your actual disk.
How to Remove Duplicate Songs in iTunes
After you finish cleaning out your Library, take it one step further and remove song duplicates.
- Open iTunes
- Click on File in the menu bar
- Select Library > Show Duplicate Files
- Select the items you want to remove paying attention to song version and album
- Hit Done
You can also opt for MacFly Pro to clean duplicates on your entire Mac (including iTunes) and make even more room on your disk.
- Open MacFly Pro
- Select Duplicates module and click Scan
- Choose items to delete and hit Delete Selected
If iTunes performance is what’s giving you trouble, proceed to reinstalling it on your Mac.
How to Uninstall iTunes from Mac
Before you jump into completely deleting iTunes from your Mac, try downloading the latest version from Apple and running the installer. It should reinstall the app and potentially solve the problems you are dealing with. If, however, running the installer doesn’t help the case, try installing iTunes from scratch.
- Go to Finder > Applications
- Select and drag iTunes.app to Trash
- Ctrl-click on Trash and hit Empty Trash
OSX may display an error when attempting to uninstall iTunes. If that’s what happened, try changing permissions:
- Ctrl-click iTunes.app and choose Get Info
- Expand Sharing & Permissions section and click the lock icon
- Type in your admin password
- Set everyone to Read & Write
- Drag iTunes.app to Trash and empty it.
There are cases when macOS prevents you from changing permissions for security reasons. At this point, you should really reconsider if you want to continue tinkering with system files that Apple purposely restricted access to. Proceed if you decided not to throw in the towel just yet.
How to disable System Integrity Protection
Newer versions of macOS (namely Sierra and High Sierra) and their System Integrity Protection have been known to lock out users from making permission changes. This, obviously, is done with security in mind, yet makes actions like uninstalling iTunes problematic. To alter permissions, you will first have to disable SIP.
Note: there is no reason why you should be disabling SIP, unless you know exactly what you’re doing.
- Restart your Mac and hold Command-R to boot into recovery mode
- Click on Utilities in the menu bar and select Terminal
- Run the following command to check the SIP status
csrutil status
- Type in this command to disable SIP
csrutil disable
- Restart your Mac and follow the guide to change permissions and delete iTunes.app
After performing fresh install, reboot to recovery again and re-enable SIP with the command: csrutil enable
Finally, it is worth mentioning that even altered permissions have not been able to solve the issue as macOS High Sierra just does not want you to remove iTunes. To fix the issues you are having with iTunes you may have to restore from a TimeMachine backup or reinstall macOS.
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If you use the Mac actively and long enough, then in time, the number of installed applications can exceed a hundred. In this case, you hardly use them all regularly, and some may not be used at all.
And everything would be fine, but these programs take place not only in the Finder window, but also on the hard drive of your Mac. Well, it’s time to put things in order in the apps folder, freeing the cherished gigabytes of space!
One of the main factors determining the importance of a particular app is the frequency of its launch. Yes, maybe you have several apps that run every 2 years, but you can’t do without them. However, this is rather an exception to the rules.
Delete Itunes Library Mac
You can see the frequency of launching applications in the Finder window. To do this, you must enable the display of objects in the form of a list (View > List), press Command-J and click the Date of the last open. Now you can see which applications were launched less often than others.
It remains only to remove unnecessary programs. This is done by a combination of Command-Del keys, or by simply dragging an object into the Trash. Make sure that the trash does not hit anything superfluous, right click on it and select Empty Trash.
Uninstall Apps in iTunes
How To Delete An App From Itunes On Mac Os
- In iTunes, go to the Apps view under Library in the sidebar.
- Choose Edit > Select All or Command-A.
- Click any part of the selection with the right mouse button.
- Select “Delete“.
- Confirm deletion. Please note that the dialog box indicates that apps are not being removed from iOS devices.
- When prompted, click Move to Trash
- Finder > Empty Trash in Finder.