How to completely uninstall Spotify on Mac
Dragging Spotify 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 biggest items are the streaming cache in ~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client and downloaded songs and podcasts for offline listening. Both are re-created from your account if you install Spotify again.
Quit Spotify. Playlists and your library are stored in your account, but offline downloads will have to be downloaded again.
com.spotify.clientRemove Spotify by hand
- Quit Spotify. If it has a menu bar icon or runs in the background, quit that too.
- Open the Applications folder and drag Spotify 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 Spotify is left running.
Where Spotify keeps its files
/Applications/Spotify.app~/Library/Application Support/Spotify~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client~/Library/Preferences/com.spotify.client.plist~/Library/Saved Application State/com.spotify.client.savedState~/Library/Containers/com.spotify.client~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.spotify.client~/Library/WebKit/com.spotify.client~/Library/Logs/Spotify
Other places Spotify uses
~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client.helperData~/Library/Preferences/com.spotify.client.helper.plistData
The quick way
Diskzy finds Spotify 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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