# Remove Terminal.app from Alfred & Spotlight

DevFeed: [Remove Terminal.app from Alfred & Spotlight](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/remove-terminal-app-from-alfred-spotlight-25318.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kau.sh/blog/remove-terminal-alfred-spotlight/>)

Author: Kaushik Gopal

Published: 2022-05-29T07:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kaushik Gopal's Site](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kaushik-gopal-s-site.md>)

Topics: [macOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/macos.md>), [Terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terminal.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [mac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mac.md>), [macos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macos.md>), [native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/native.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [terminal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terminal.md>), [utilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/utilities.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide explains how to hide the native macOS Terminal.app from Alfred and Spotlight by dragging it from a Finder search into Spotlight's Privacy settings, then reloading Alfred. This leaves iTerm as the visible result when searching for the terminal.

## Source excerpt

I use iTerm as my terminal of choice.1 It constantly annoys me when I use Alfred or Spotlight that the Terminal.app (native macOS) app also shows up in the search results. This is especially annoying on new computers when Alfred hasn't learnt my preferences as Terminal.app would show up first in the results. Options ## Quick googling shows two options: Add a Spotlight comment alfred:ignore Add the app to your Spotlight "privacy" Option 1 is made a little complicated owing to the fact that you can't add spotlight comments to native "Utilities" app on the Mac. I managed to do this but this option doesn't work. At first, Option 2 might also seem tricky since the file picker doesn't allow you to pick Utilities apps again. But there's an easy workaround: Open Spotlight Preferences > Privacy Tab Open new Finder window & search for "Terminal.app" Drag Terminal.app search result to Privacy Tab on Spotlight preferences type "Reload" in Alfred Now, whenever I search for "Term", I only see "iTerm" show up in my search results. Video ## Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Download the video instead. Why I use iTerm is for another blog post. ↩︎