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« on: August 29, 2020, 04:05:17 pm »

You can disable System Integrity Protection if it’s getting in your way

System Integrity Protection exists to keep your Mac safe. If you absolutely need to turn it off, however, here's how you do it.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security feature of macOS designed to make it even more difficult for malware to access important system files, keeping them safe from unwanted modifications. In the early days of SIP, some developers ran into problems when the system would keep core functionality of their apps from working properly because those apps made changes to the way the operating system worked by editing the system files that SIP was now in place to protect.

Because of this, many developers (and some users) would disable SIP to let their apps work properly. Now, several years on, this is less necessary as most apps have found ways to do what they need to do without the need to disable SIP, allowing your Mac to stay more secure.

But if you absolutely need to turn off System Integrity Protection, there's a way to do it. You'll just need to use...

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