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App cleaner doesn't find *Info.plist* file for iPhone/iPad apps on new Mac with Apple Silicon chip #244
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Ha sorry😅 It seems that the Info.plist file is saved in the wrapped app ($1/Wrapper/AppName.app/Info.plist).
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The So my suggestion would be:
Convincing output:
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I agree. App-cleaner does not find iPhone/iPad apps installed into silicon Macs. I ended up manually following https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/uninstall-iphone-ipad-apps-m1-mac/ |
I ended up modifying the original script to work with the iOS apps on Macs. But additionally, we need to delete the app containers (and any error log files or anything else that still persists). I shared the script and wrote it up: https://verityj.github.io/2023/06/21/clean.html. In case it helps anyone. I specifically kept it as a two step process to have control of exactly what stays and what goes. |
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Summary
I wanted to uninstall Chess from chess.com (iPad version) but got the error:
I was able to reproduce the error for another iPhone app.
The error message is printed here. So for new Macs the if condition should be adapted.
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