How to completely uninstall Claude on Mac
Dragging Claude 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.
The desktop app's cache, local settings and MCP configuration are in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude. Claude Code, the command line tool, is separate and keeps its own data in ~/.claude, which uninstalling the desktop app does not need to touch.
Copy claude_desktop_config.json from ~/Library/Application Support/Claude if you have set up MCP servers. Your conversations are stored in your account.
com.anthropic.claudefordesktopRemove Claude by hand
- Quit Claude. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag Claude 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 Claude is left running.
Where Claude keeps its files
/Applications/Claude.app~/Library/Application Support/Claude~/Library/Caches/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop~/Library/Preferences/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop.savedState~/Library/Containers/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop~/Library/WebKit/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop~/Library/Logs/Claude
Other places Claude uses
~/Library/Caches/com.anthropic.claudefordesktop.ShipItData
The quick way
Diskzy finds Claude 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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