Talk:List of built-in macOS apps

Merge proposals
There is currently a discussion at Articles for deletion/Chess (OS X), where an editor has proposed merging content to this article. Mz7 (talk) 02:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Merges
At a recent AFD (Articles for deletion/Chess (OS X), there was consensus to merge Chess (OS X) to this article. The discussion also suggested merging all the others into this article as well. I started doing this as a WP:Bold move. I have done the first few. I have stopped for now because I feel this is potentially unfair on the watchers and authors of this article as a discussion they may not have known about (I see the comment above did indicate this though) could result in major changes to this article. I will also admit that the merging will be a lot of work and I didn't really want to continue and potentially waste my time unless there was a reasonable consensus. AIR corn (talk) 10:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Go for it czar  10:32, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
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 * MacOS Activity Monitor.jpg

iMovie/GarageBand
Just a minor quibble. I'm pretty sure GarageBand and iMovie aren't technically part of the macOS distribution, though AFAIK an OEM license for these programs has been included with pretty much all recent Macs. But most Macs also include Pages/Numbers/Keynote licenses. So for consistency either the former should be removed or the latter should be added to this list (possibly with a note stating that these are normally bundled). 70.73.134.255 (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2019 (UTC) André G. Isaak


 * Agreed, and done. Any Mac user can verify this by completely resetting their Mac (losing all files and installed apps) and see that iWork/iLife are not installed by default. It's just not part of the system image. Removed. DFlhb (talk) 12:02, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

"Software Update" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Software Update and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 4 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Qwv (talk) 23:47, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Move to List of macOS built-in apps
Rationale for the move: DFlhb (talk) 15:10, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * some macOS components have questionable notability for Wikipedia; macOS user-facing apps are much more notable
 * we need a macOS built-in apps article anyway, and this article already practically all of them
 * before the move, this article contained both user-facing apps, some of which are heavily marketed (Home, Safari, Apple Music) and obscure macOS dæmons; naming the article after the latter made no sense.