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Disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) on macOS Catalina 10.15

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Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) aims to boost the safety and reliableness of macOS through the Catalina update. This feature can forestall system interventions from outside developers, acquainted software package like Adobe Zii is not any exception. Therefore, to use “medicine” for applications on macOS Catalina 10.15, besides disabling GateKeeper, you need to disable the SIP.

Disable System Integrity Protection

Disable SIP

  • Reboot the device and during the reboot process hold down command + R to enter Recovery mode
  • After the Recovery mode has finished booting, open Terminal by clicking Utilities> Terminal in the top right corner of the screen
  • Type the command line csrutil disable and then press Enter
csrutil disable
  • After running that command, the Terminal window can show as below

So you’ve got with success deactivated SIP, restart the device to use as traditional.

Turn ON SIP

  • Reboot the device and during the reboot process hold down command + R to enter Recovery mode
  • After the Recovery mode has finished booting, open Terminal by clicking Utilities> Terminal in the top right corner of the screen
  • run one of the 2 commands below
csrutil clear
csrutil enable

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