


this probably won't work if your MacOS partition is encrypted.but if you're using an NVMe disk, it's probably /dev/nvme0n1p1 You have to change /dev/nvme0n1p1 with wherever the root partition is, and if you don't know, you can launch gparted with the command sudo gparted which can help you find out by matching the size of your MacOS root partition with every partition in the system. sudo mv /Applications/iTunes. It will leave the helper but will render the app useless. it basically recursively remove the executable flag on every file in /Applications/iTunes.app, which should stop MacOS from ever starting iTunes (the normal way), which effectively makes iTunes disabled.īoot up the system in an Ubuntu CD/usb drive, and basically run in a terminal sudo suįind /mount/Applications/iTunes.app/ -depth -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-x If all else fails and you still need to stop iTunes from working, just open its permissions as mentioned above and enter the following command in the terminal. Boot up the system in "macOS Recovery HD" where SIP restrictions are not enforced (according to ), and basically run in a terminal sudo find '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/iTunes.app' -depth -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chmod a-xĪnd reboot into mac.
