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You don’t have to modify /system, that’s what Magisk is for.
Let me give you an example with the YouTube app:

  1. # find -L /system -type d -iname '*youtube*' gets me the path to the YouTube app as /system/product/app/YouTube
  2. # mkdir -p /data/adb/modules/MyAwesomeModule/system/product/app/YouTube
    • Creates a new module called MyAwesomeModule in the Magisk module directory. So basically just a folder in /data/adb/modules
    • Inside that folder we created subfolders mirroring the real /system folder. Files you put in there get overlayed by Magisk over the corresponding files in the real /system folder at boot time (not folders, that’s why we need .replace in the next step)
    • It’s very important that those paths are case-sensitive, so /youtube wouldn’t work in this case
  3. # touch /data/adb/modules/MyAwesomeModule/system/product/app/YouTube/.replace creates a .replace file in that folder, telling Magisk to overlay our folder over the real /system/product/app/YouTube folder.
  4. After a reboot /system/product/app/YouTube will still be there, but just as a empty folder.

If the YouTube app is still there, it has been updated to a version newer than the system one. Those updates can be uninstalled normally and “pooof” no more YouTube :grinning:

Masking the Orange App should be the same process.

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