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Hello,
Each time I boot my iMac with recently upgraded to El Capitan, it pops up annoying Messages Agent alerts asking for permission for Facetime to get access to my keychain.
I never use Facetime and I don't want it to have access to my private information.
How can I completely remove or disable Facetime?
I have tried searching all Settings but I can't find where I turn off this Messages Agent disturbing pop ups.
Thanks
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
The FaceTime app is part of OS X and cannot be removed. You can however turn off FaceTime. You can also go into FaceTime preferences and make sure enable this account is not checked.
Really QUIT Facetime from the menu, grab the Dock icon of Facetime and move it off the dock while holding, wait a second while holding then let go it disappears in a puffff.
Then open SystemPreferences->Notifications select Facetime at the left, on the right uncheck all boxes and set Facetime alert style to "none". Then quit SystemPreferences.
To be sure Logout (from the apple menu), then login again.
That should do it.
The "Turn Facetime Off" option is greyed out as you can see on the screen capture.
The notifications are all unchecked and the alert set to None following your instructions but it still appears showing:
My answer to chroot is valid for your comments as well.
It does not solve these irritating pop ups!
Do you have family sharing set perhaps.
I do not have much experience with this.
No.
I have never used iCloud and there is no familiy settings anywhere.
remove facetime on El Capitan
