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The private mode has been a long-standing way of avoiding trackers when browsing online Safari’s Private mode helps avoid trackers and does not save your web browsing history or cookies. Safari does not have a private browser, it instead has a Private mode for Safari.

How to enhance privacy and security on iOS 15.

How to Go to Private Browser on iPhone 13 or any iOS 15 device.

Instructions copied from this MacRumors forum thread, updated for Safari 9 in this post. You will then see the folders you need to copy files to. You can get to this folder in the Finder by going to the "Go" menu and choosing "Connect to Folder…", then typing in ~/Library. Library is a hidden folder that isn't visible when you navigate to the home directory. Additionally, keyboard shortcuts are tied to menu items, so that's disabled too.

(Optional) If everything works, you may delete the backup MainMenu.nib if you so choose.īy removing the "New Private Window" menu item from the menu bar, they will not be able to enter private browsing.

Open Safari to make sure that it still opens (if it doesn't, restore your original MainMenu.nib file).

Copy your edited MainMenu.nib to Base.lproj, overwriting the existing one.

Back in the Base.lproj folder of the Safari app, make a copy MainMenu.nib just in case something goes wrong and you need to restore it.

Hit the delete key to see it disappear.

Click on the "New Private Window" menu item.

In the window with the Safari menu, choose "Safari" to expand it.

Open the file in Xcode (should be double-clickable).

Right-click on the file and choose "NibDecompiler".

Copy it outside of the package somewhere (like the Desktop). Go to Contents, then Resources, then Base.lproj folder.

This will open the app as if it were a folder.

Go to Safari in the Finder and right-click "Show Package Contents".

You will need to redo these steps every time you update Safari. Note that this involves editing the Safari internal files. Remove the "New Private Window" option from the menu bar

From your download, copy NibDecompiler.workflow into ~/Library/Services*.

Copy NibDecompiler.action into ~/Library/Automator*.

This will produce a file named NibDecompiler.action.

Open the NibDecompiler.xcodeproj Xcode project in Xcode.

Download a zip file of Nib-Decompiler from GitHub (or clone the repository if you know how to do that).

Install Xcode (available in the App Store).

You can make the following modifications to a copy of Safari and put that version in the Dock, but the original Safari will still need to exist in the Applications folder. Note that macOS 10.12+ will not allow you to modify, overwrite, or delete Safari. If logging isn't practical or you want to be more proactive and prevent Private Browsing from being accessible in the first place, it is possible (though not a short process) to disable Private Browsing if you are willing to mess with Safari's internal files.