How to Delete Apps on a Mac

Remove apps with Finder

Open the Finder app and go to Applications . This is the folder where all the applications installed on the Mac are stored.

Users cannot delete some pre-installed apps on Apple. Apps like System Preferences, Messages, Photos, Notes, Pages, and Calendar come pre-installed and can't be removed from Mac computers.

Select the app you want to remove in Finder by clicking it once. You only need to click on the application once without opening it. Double-clicking on the app will open it. If you accidentally open an app, you don't need to close it to delete the app. Go back to Finder and make sure the app is still selected.

The app is selected when its name is highlighted in the Finder.

After you select the app, you'll delete it by choosing File > Move to trash .

Find the File tab in the upper right corner of the screen. Click File and select Move to trash near the bottom of the pop-up menu.

By choosing Move to trash, the selected application will be removed from the Finder and moved to your Mac's trash.

You can also delete apps by clicking and holding the app in the Finder, and then dragging it to the trash can icon in the dock.

Apps in the trash still take up space on your Mac. You'll empty the trash by clicking the trash can icon on the dock and selecting Empty in the upper-right corner of the window.

Restore apps by opening Trash and dragging the app to Applications . If you accidentally deleted the wrong app, open Trash by clicking the trash can icon in the dock. Find the app you want to restore and drag it to the Applications tab to the left of the file in the trash.

Check Mac storage and delete apps in the Apple menu

Click the apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen. This is to open the Apple menu. If you want to check which apps are taking up the most space on your Mac, you can see the information in this menu.

Open About This Mac and open Storage . In this window, you'll see the used and available memory on your Mac displayed as a graph.

Move the pointer to different colored blocks in the chart to see the capacity of each data type. These types of data include photos, apps, messages, and operating systems.

Click Manage and switch to Applications . Clicking Manage opens a new window where you can manage Mac storage. In the displayed window, you will select the Applications tab to view the capacity breakdown of each application on your Mac computer.

Delete the application in this window using the Delete. button . Select the app you want to remove from your Mac by clicking it once. Once selected, you can delete the application by clicking the Delete. button in the lower-right corner of this window.

After pressing Delete. , you will be asked to confirm the decision to delete the application in the displayed message. In this message, you can also see how much new free data your computer will have after deleting the app.

Remove apps from the dock

Find the dock on your Mac computer. The dock shows up at the bottom or side of your Mac's home screen. Icons of the applications you are using or recently used will appear on the dock.

The default location of the dock on Mac computers is below the screen. You can place the dock on the left or right side of the screen by opening System Preferences > Dock & Menu bar > Position on screen .

Click and hold the app that you want to remove from the screen. Place the cursor at the application you want to remove from the dock, click on the application and hold until you see a menu appear. Clicking and holding the app you want to remove opens a menu with multiple options for the app.

If you don't see the app in the dock, you can change the size of the app icon in System Preferences > Dock & Menu bar > Size .

You can also change the setting so that placing the cursor at the application on the dock will enlarge the size of the icon, making it easy to identify. Enable it in System Preferences > Dock & Menu bar > Magnification.

From the menu that appears, select Options > Remove from Dock . When you see the menu displayed next to the selected application, move the pointer to Options > Remove from Dock. This will remove the app from the desktop dock. If the application is open, you must select Quit from the menu that appears before removing the application from the screen.

Sometimes apps "open" even when you don't see them on the screen. You can tell if an app is open by checking if there's a black dot below the app icon (if the dock is at the bottom of the screen), or next to the app icon (if the dock is somewhere else). side of the screen).

Samuel Daniel

Update 11 March 2022