How to completely uninstall AnyDesk on Mac
Dragging AnyDesk to the Trash removes the app itself, but its support files, caches and settings stay on your Mac. Here is where they are and how to remove all of them.
AnyDesk keeps its configuration, your AnyDesk ID, saved sessions and logs in a hidden folder, ~/.anydesk. If you installed it so that it runs at startup, it also has a background service that should be stopped first.
Quit AnyDesk from its menu bar icon as well as the main window. Removing ~/.anydesk gives this Mac a new AnyDesk ID if you install it again, so anyone who connects to you will need the new one.
com.philandro.anydeskRemove AnyDesk by hand
- Quit AnyDesk. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag AnyDesk to the Trash.
- In Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder (Shift-Command-G), paste each location below, and move what you find to the Trash. Not every location exists for every version.
- Empty the Trash, then restart your Mac so nothing from AnyDesk is left running.
Where AnyDesk keeps its files
/Applications/AnyDesk.app~/Library/Caches/com.philandro.anydesk~/Library/Preferences/com.philandro.anydesk.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/com.philandro.anydesk.savedState~/Library/Containers/com.philandro.anydesk~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.philandro.anydesk~/Library/WebKit/com.philandro.anydesk
Other places AnyDesk uses
~/.anydeskData
The quick way
Diskzy finds AnyDesk and the files listed here, shows the size of each one, and moves them to the Trash together. Files that another app also uses are left alone.
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