How to completely remove installed apps from mac?

Before you dive into the more technical solutions for removing installed apps from Mac, it is worth checking a few quick shortcuts that might save you a lot of time. Sometimes the most thorough way to clean up your Mac involves a mix of manual checking and understanding where macOS hides its "clutter."

To quickly find an app's leftovers, open Finder, click Go in the top menu bar, hold down the Option (⌥) key, and select Library. Most "hidden" files live in these three locations:

~/Library/Application Support/
~/Library/Caches/
~/Library/Preferences/

Note: Be careful in these folders! Deleting the wrong file can reset settings for apps you actually want to keep.

This is a quite safe way to completely uninstall an app from Mac.

Taking these extra steps ensures your storage stays organized and prevents old background processes from slowing down your system. If you find that the manual method is too tedious for larger apps, that’s usually a good sign to look into a dedicated uninstaller tool.