How to completely uninstall Brave Browser on Mac
Dragging Brave 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.
Your profiles (bookmarks, history, saved passwords, extensions) and Brave Wallet data are in ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser. The cache is in ~/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware.
Set up Brave Sync or export your bookmarks and passwords if you want to keep them. If you use Brave Wallet, make sure you have your recovery phrase, because the wallet on this Mac is removed with the profile folder.
com.brave.BrowserRemove Brave by hand
- Quit Brave. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag Brave 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 Brave is left running.
Where Brave keeps its files
/Applications/Brave Browser.app~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser~/Library/Caches/com.brave.Browser~/Library/Preferences/com.brave.Browser.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/com.brave.Browser.savedState~/Library/Containers/com.brave.Browser~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.brave.Browser~/Library/WebKit/com.brave.Browser~/Library/Logs/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser
Other places Brave uses
~/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware/Brave-BrowserData
The quick way
Diskzy finds Brave 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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