How can I delete apps from the Mac completely?

Hello, I’ve installed Xcode on my Mac to explore it as I am interested in development, but new to it. It is taking too much space and I have deleted it but I can see the leftovers are still there and taking space. So, how can I delete it completely?

If you can see leftovers navigate to the folder that has the leftovers and delete it

Try Pearcleaner

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AppCleaner has been around for many, many years and is tiny & works.

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Maybe check in the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory.
Or use a system scanner to find out where it is still located, something like GitHub - viktomas/godu: Simple golang utility helping to discover large files/folders.

Otherwise, a quick search provides me quite a lot of potential answers too :smiley:

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Was gonna suggest exactly this

Not sure if installing an app to remove some is the way to go especially if you then need to trust a big thing running on your computer. :sweat_smile:

But at least it’s open-source indeed. :+1:t2:

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Hello guys, thank you for your recommendations, I just want to tell you I’ve found a solution, and I am able to delete the xcode completely using the devcleaner app which is made for the cleaning xcode only.

Hey, thanks man for your recommendation, i appreciated your help, just watched the thread but I’m already done with it.

Thank you buddy :slight_smile: