How can you correctly disable "gamed" in OS X Sierra?

JBob2 wrote:

Is this safe to do?

Completely safe. "launchctl unload <path to file>" is standard procedure for disabling a LaunchAgent. This means that it will not run at startup. Probably should do a restart after running this command. If needed, can always be reversed by substituting "load" for "unload" in the above command.

Actually, small change to the command. Try it this way instead:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

I don't run Sierra, so small possibility the command simply won't work there, or if that LaunchAgent (.plist) is not at that path in Sierra, you'll just get "no such file."

Was one of the first things I did when I moved to 10.11.6. Haven't been bothered by it since. No reason to think it won't work in Sierra.

System preferences > internet accounts > select the " gamed " and click on minus sign .

A window appears , click on ok .

And read this article : macOS Sierra: Play games on your Mac

End a session you’re hosting: You can end a session at any time; when you do, the game data is deleted from your iCloud storage. If a session is inactive for six months, it’s automatically ended and the game data is deleted.

If we go in security and privacy > Firewall > firewall options > uncheck the box of block all incoming connections gamed is shown , click on it to highlight and again click on minus sign to get it deleted .

OK, no problem. You need to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), run the command, then re-enable it. Completely safe.

Easier if I just give you a short article (from 2015, but still current.)

Go to http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac- os-x/

Scroll down to

"Turning Off Rootless System Integrity Protection in Mac OS X"

Then to re-enable

Scroll down to

"How to Re-Enable Rootless System Integrity Protection in Mac OS X"

JBob2 wrote:

This worked great! Just one question. Your Terminal command has a '-w' in it and the earlier post about this doesn't. Any idea what the difference is?

Glad you asked that question; forced me to do some research on this.

As best I can tell, and I'm far from being a Unix expert, the -w flag probably wasn't needed here. But just in case the Disabled key had been set in that gamed LaunchAgent, which it is not in my El Cap, the -w flag would override it. Looking through that gamed.plist on my OS (10.11.6), there is no instance of Disabled showing, and most likely it's not set in your Sierra installation, as well. As a hypothetical, if there had been a Disabled key set to true in that .plist (false is the default), and you wanted to load that LaunchAgent, the -w flag would have made the load command work (i.e., the gamed LaunchAgent would run at startup), where otherwise it wouldn't.

From what I'm seeing, it seems that launchctl unload or load (there are replacements), including the -w flag, are now considered "legacy" commands. But still working for me, so no reason not use them.

More information would help. What is gamed? What are you doing when you see this? Is this repeatable?

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This works on my 10.11, and should probably work on 10.12

In Terminal, enter (exactly, copy/paste)

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

Then hit return/enter

Yes I stopped .

Regards ,