disable_bigsur_remove_app_stop_spotlight.sh

# For those who does not care iCloud and stock mac Applications
# As well as stopping Spotlight completley
# tested on bigsur (Intel and M )

#!/bin/bash

# Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode 
# Terminal from top menu
# csrutil disable
# csrutil authenticated-root disable
# reboot to desktop

# Find your root mnt's device
# run mnt and chop off the last s, e.g. if your / is /dev/disk1s5s1 -> you'll mnt /dev/disk1s5


sudo mkdir  mnt
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk1s5 mnt/

# Disable telemetry home
echo 127.0.0.1 ocsp.apple.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
echo ::1       ocsp.apple.com | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

# ---------------------------  AGENTS to disable -------------
TODISABLE=()


TODISABLE+=(
# --------------------- CLOUD -------------------------

'com.apple.cloudd' \
'com.apple.cloudpaird' \
'com.apple.cloudphotod' \
'com.apple.cloudphotosd' \
'com.apple.followupd' \
'com.apple.icloud.searchpartyuseragent' \
'com.apple.icloud' \
'com.apple.iCloudNotificationAgent' \
'com.apple.iCloudUserNotifications' \
'com.apple.itunescloudd' \
'com.apple.protectedcloudstorage.protectedcloudkeysyncing' \
'com.apple.webinspectord' \
'com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3'  \

# -------------------- SAFARI ---------------------


'com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.Service' \
'com.apple.SafariBookmarksSyncAgent' \
'com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent' \
'com.apple.safaridavclient' \
'com.apple.SafariHistoryServiceAgent' \
'com.apple.SafariLaunchAgent' \
'com.apple.SafariNotificationAgent' \
'com.apple.SafariPlugInUpdateNotifier' \
'com.apple.swcd' \
'com.apple.WebKit.PluginAgent' \
'com.apple.Safari.PasswordBreachAgent' \

# -------------------- ADD RELATED ---------------------------

'com.apple.ap.adprivacyd' \
'com.apple.ap.adservicesd' \
'com.apple.ap.promotedcontentd' \


# ------------------- Game Center / Passbook / Apple TV / Homekit...

'com.apple.gamed' \
'com.apple.passd' \
'com.apple.Maps.pushdaemon' \
'com.apple.videosubscriptionsd' \
'com.apple.homed' \


# -------------------- SIRI ---------------------------

'com.apple.assistant_service' \
'com.apple.assistantd' \
'com.apple.parsec-fbf' \
'com.apple.siri-distributed-evaluation' \
'com.apple.Siri.agent' \
'com.apple.siri.context.service' \
'com.apple.siriknowledged' \

# -------------------- Screensharing ---------------------------

'com.apple.screensharing.MessagesAgent' \
'com.apple.screensharing.agent' \
'com.apple.screensharing.menuextra' \

# -------------------- Sidecar --------------

'com.apple.sidecar-hid-relay' \
'com.apple.sidecar-relay' \

# -------------------- Screentime -------------

'com.apple.ScreenTimeAgent' \
'com.apple.UsageTrackingAgent' \

# --------------------Family Parent Control ---------------------

'com.apple.familycircled' \
'com.apple.familycontrols.useragent' \
'com.apple.familynotificationd' \
'com.apple.parentalcontrols.check' \


# --------------------Classroom -------------------------------

'com.apple.progressd' \

# --------------------Spotlight------------------------------

'com.apple.corespotlightd' \
'com.apple.corespotlightservice' \
'com.apple.Spotlight' \
'com.apple.metadata.mdwrite' \
'com.apple.metadata.mdbulkimport' \
'com.apple.metadata.mdflagwriter' \
'com.apple.mdworker.mail' \
'com.apple.mdmclient.agent' \
'com.apple.mdworker.shared' \
'com.apple.mdworker.sizing' \
'com.apple.mdworker.single.plist' \
'com.apple.mdworker.single.arm64' \
'com.apple.mdworker.single.x86_64' \
'com.apple.mdworker.sizing' \
'com.apple.mdworker.bundles' \

# -------------------- iMessage / Facetime

'com.apple.avconferenced' \
'com.apple.findmymacmessenger' \
'com.apple.imagent' \
'com.apple.imautomatichistorydeletionagent' \
'com.apple.imklaunchagent' \
'com.apple.imtransferagent' \

# --------------------Others ---------------------------

'com.apple.macos.studentd' \
'com.apple.photoanalysisd' \
'com.apple.photolibraryd' \
'com.apple.PhotoLibraryMigrationUtility.XPC' \
'com.apple.podcasts.PodcastContentService' \
'com.apple.softwareupdate_notify_agent' \
'com.apple.SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager' \
'com.apple.suggestd' \
'com.apple.syncdefaultsd' \
'com.apple.UsageTrackingAgent' \
'com.apple.identityservicesd' \
'com.apple.touristd' \
'com.apple.appstoreagent' \
'com.apple.storedownloadd'

)

sudo mkdir mnt/System/Library/LaunchAgents/OldPlist

for agent in "${TODISABLE[@]}"
do
    sudo mv mnt/System/Library/LaunchAgents/${agent}.plist mnt/System/Library/LaunchAgents/OldPlist/${agent}.plist.bak
    echo "[OK] Agent ${agent} disabled"
done

# ---------------------------- DAEMONS to disable --------------------------------------
TODISABLE=()

# iCloud
TODISABLE+=(

# --------------------- CLOUD -------------------------

'com.apple.analyticsd' \
'com.apple.cloudd' \
'com.apple.iCloudStats' \
'com.apple.icloud.searchpartyd'

# ---------------------Spotlight

'com.apple.metadata.mds.index' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds.scan' \


# --------------------- Others

'com.apple.appleseed.fbahelperd' \
'com.apple.familycontrols' \
'com.apple.findmymac' \
'com.apple.findmymacmessenger' \
'com.apple.locate' \
'com.apple.locationd' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds.index' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds.scan' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump' \
'com.apple.metadata.mds' \
'com.apple.SubmitDiagInfo' \
'com.apple.mobile.softwareupdated' \
'com.apple.softwareupdated' \
'com.apple.siriinferenced' 


)

sudo mkdir mnt/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/OldPlist

for daemon in "${TODISABLE[@]}"
do
    sudo mv mnt/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/${daemon}.plist mnt/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/OldPlist/${daemon}.plist.bak
    echo "[OK] Daemon ${daemon} disabled"
done

#----------------------- REMOVE APPS ------------------------------------

sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Chess.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/FaceTime.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Home.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Maps.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Messages.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/News.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Photo\ Booth.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Photos.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Podcasts.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Siri.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Stickies.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/Stocks.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/TV.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/VoiceMemos.app
sudo rm -rf ~/mnt/System/Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app 

# -----------------------------------------------------------------
# Mission Control
defaults write com.apple.dock mcx-expose-disabled -bool TRUE
#defaults delete com.apple.dock mcx-expose-disabled

# Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool TRUE
#defaults delete com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled

# Spotlight
sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo chmod 0 mnt/System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
#sudo mdutil -a -i on
#sudo chmod 755 mnt/System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app

# ------------------------ REMOVE OTHER STUFF ---------------------------
# Sometime MRT.app goes 120% CPU Time , both of them --------------------

sudo mv mnt/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app mnt/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.back
sudo mv mnt/System/Library/Templates/Data/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app mnt/System/Library/Templates/Data/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.back

killall Dock
sudo bless --folder mnt/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot && sudo reboot

If you want to Revert it back, just use my sh script. Except the disable status of telemetry.
https://github.com/flamel7ramond/monterey_debloat/blob/main/Revert%20Script.sh

and if you want, this is the variant that spotlight & safari still intacts. Try this script
https://github.com/flamel7ramond/monterey_debloat/blob/main/monterey_disable_V1.sh

maybe someone here can help me out. first of all
thanks for this great script!
came from disable bunch of shit in catalina to here.
bcs I changed to a new m1 monterey.
but I have problems to get the script working.

/ / / / / / / / / / /

deactivated filevault
Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode
Terminal from top menu
csrutil disable
csrutil authenticated-root disable
reboot to desktop

/ / / / / / / / / / /

did all.
diskutil list give me informations:
I got
/dev/disk0 (internal)
and
/dev/disk3 (synthesized)
so I changed in the script
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk3s5 mnt/
but when I run it I got:
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Resource busy
mount: /Users/myusername/mnt failed with 75
and of course while all the following agents disabling it gives out:
No such file or directory

what I am doing wrong?
thumbs up for your great work!

greetings from germany

last words:
from catalina I remembered I did run the script in recovery mode. this time not?

my thinkings:
wanna run the script and afterwards
csrutil enable
csrutil authenticated-root enable
and activate filevault again. is this ok?
wanna get rid of this services and be free :)

Can you please post output of "mount". Type it from terminal. Looks like you selected the wrong disk

Can you please post output of "mount". Type it from terminal. Looks like you selected the wrong disk

mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Resource busy
mount: /Users/myusername/mnt failed with 75

1. open terminal
2. type mount
3. hit enter
4. post output from it here

output:

/dev/disk3s1s1 on / (apfs, sealed, local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk3s6 on /System/Volumes/VM (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
/dev/disk3s2 on /System/Volumes/Preboot (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk3s4 on /System/Volumes/Update (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s2 on /System/Volumes/xarts (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s1 on /System/Volumes/iSCPreboot (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s3 on /System/Volumes/Hardware (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse)
/dev/disk3s5 on /System/Volumes/Data (apfs, local, journaled, nobrowse, protect)
map auto_home on /System/Volumes/Data/home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

try use /dev/disk3s1