{"id":35659,"date":"2022-04-22T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2022-04-22T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:36:12","slug":"why-do-new-macs-have-a-appleinternal-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/22\/why-do-new-macs-have-a-appleinternal-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do New Macs Have a \/AppleInternal Folder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/AppleInternal.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1516038349714341895\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/AppleInternal.html\"><p>The \/AppleInternal folder, as its name suggests, is used by Apple engineers for internal development purposes. Some people external to Apple have discovered that creating an \/AppleInternal folder on your Mac can cause behavior changes in macOS that may be useful for development purposes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not the only person who&rsquo;s seen \/AppleInternal on a new Mac. <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/\">Michael Tsai<\/a> told me that he saw it on his new MacBook Pro too. And there are reports of it on the web, such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/mac\/comments\/t12mcm\/just_bought_a_brand_new_m1_macbook_air_from_apple\/\">reddit user<\/a> who found \/AppleInternal on a new M1 MacBook Air.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Although you can&rsquo;t remove \/AppleInternal directly, you can remove the folder \/System\/Volumes\/Data\/AppleInternal with the command <code>sudo rmdir \/System\/Volumes\/Data\/AppleInternal<\/code> in Terminal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/upgrading-to-a-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-a-studio-display\/\">Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/macos-10-13-4\/\">macOS 10.13.4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson (tweet): The \/AppleInternal folder, as its name suggests, is used by Apple engineers for internal development purposes. Some people external to Apple have discovered that creating an \/AppleInternal folder on your Mac can cause behavior changes in macOS that may be useful for development purposes. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;m not the only person who&rsquo;s seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-04-22T20:36:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"652a3408-1faa-4b31-877a-fdddff45ef83","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-04-22T20:36:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZSo0CB-qSzGHev3d_0Xvgw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,100,2077],"class_list":["post-35659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35660,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions\/35660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}