How to Completely Remove Adobe Flash on a Mac

This practical guide walks through how to completely remove adobe flash on a Mac, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

The reason to remove Flash on the machine is explained by Adobe is to help secure the system because Adobe no longer intends to release any future Flash Player updates or security patches. So removing Flash Player is very necessary, to avoid problems related to the security of the machine.

Here's how to completely remove Adobe Flash on a Mac.

Deauthorize Flash on your Mac computer:

1. If you care about privacy, first go to System Preferences> Flash Player (at the bottom).
2. In the upper right corner, select the Advanced tab .
3. Select Deauthorize This Computer…

Completely uninstall Adobe Flash

1. Open a Finder window and then select Applications. Open Utilities or search for Adobe Flash Player Install Manager .
2. Open Adobe Flash Player Install Manager , select Uninstall .
3. You will receive a confirmation message when the application is successfully removed.

You can use a third-party cleaning app like Clean My Mac or Sensei to search and remove any Flash files. However, just remove Adobe Flash officially and all files will be deleted.

Finally, Safari will run with the following line of messages Adobe sent you: