How to delete the chess app from my Macbook?

If you feel the extra apps in the Applications folder clutter things up, then you might simply collect all those annoying apps into their own subfolder within Applications.

But no, you cannot delete most of the apps that come installed with macOS.

Garage Band is downloadable from the App Store, and as such should be removable from your Mac. Simply select the app in the Applications folder and then drag it to the Trash or press Command-delete (⌘-delete)

bhavasam wrote:

So there's really no way to delete an application I don't want to use, in the machine I purchased? Really? An application that is not essential, like...chess??

You cannot remove any of the built-in Apple applications -> Apps included on your Mac - Apple Support

They are included with all Macs and are part of the system.

Re: “So there's really no way to delete an application I don't want to use, in the machine I purchased? Really? An application that is not essential, like...chess??”

Ever since Big Sur, Apple has been hardening macOS against malware attack by putting many “read-only” system files into a cryptographically-signed sealed system volume. The Mac doesn’t even run off it directly, but off read-only APFS snapshots created at startup time.

Most of the applications that come with macOS - the ones that don’t take up much space on the drive - live on this volume. Thus you cannot delete them or update them separately from macOS.

A handful of large applications - Pages, Numbers, KeyNote, iMovie, GarageBand - are separately downloadable from the App Store. Those, I believe you could delete.

bhavasam wrote:

I just got an M5 and it comes with the usual trash applications like Chess or Garage Band, that I don't need for anything. I would like to know how can I remove these applications from my machine since I will never use them.

Thank you very much

You can not delete baked in applications.

ref: Apps included on your Mac baked in macOS applications apps that ship with your Mac

Apps included on your Mac - Apple Support

you can submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

Apps installed by MacOS are considered part of MacOS and will resist being deleted, and if successful, will be re-installed at the next major upgrade, or sooner.

There are more than 350,000 files installed when you install MacOS. For reliable, trouble-free operation, I strongly recommend you not delete anything that you know is part of the System.

1. Use the Dock for or create aliases to the applications you want to use.

2. There isn't.

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Most User don'r go digging in the /Applications folder on a daily basis, so what you see as 'clutter; is of no consequences to them. Some do not even know the /Applications folder exists.

Most Users place the Apps they want to use with some regularity into the Dock, and activate them from the Dock.

I was not aware that Apple's apps could no longer be placed into subfolders. Unfortunate.

This is still a possibility with third party apps though, so you do have some control over things installed on your computer. Just not the OS and the apps installed with it.

That would be NO.

Don't want to use them? Then don't.