Remove Apple Music.app from macOS 12.4 (M1)

remove-apple-music-from-macos.md

Warning: if you follow this guide, you won't be able to use certain features of macOS anymore (iOS apps, Apple Pay, ...)

• Reboot your Mac into recovery mode
  • shutdown macOS
  • after macOS has shut down, hold down the power button until it says something about "options"
• choose options and not your harddrive
  • you will be asked to log in, do so
  • start Terminal from the top menu

Type these two commands:

csrutil disable
csrutil authenticated-root disable

Reboot back to your desktop.

Open a Terminal and type:

mkdir -p -m777 ~/mount
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/disk3s1 ~/mount
sudo rm -rf ~/mount/System/Applications/Music.app
sudo bless --mount "$HOME/mount/System/Library/CoreServices/" --setBoot --create-snapshot
sudo reboot

After the reboot Music.app will be gone. You can safely delete ~/mount now.

Oh, btw.: FileVault must be disabled before this is going to work.