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How to uninstall Google Chrome on a Mac.

By Grant and Brad, who make Pangalin's apps · Updated 10 October 2026

Removing Chrome takes two steps: the app, and (optionally) your profile data: bookmarks, history, extensions and settings stored on your Mac. If you use Chrome sync, your data stays in your Google Account either way.

Remove Chrome

1. Quit Chrome: right-click its Dock icon and choose Quit.
2. In Finder, drag Google Chrome from Applications to the Trash.

Remove your profile data (optional)

Only if you want a clean start, or won't use Chrome again on this Mac. This deletes bookmarks, history and settings stored locally.

3. In Finder choose Go › Go to Folder… and enter ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome.
4. Select everything in that folder and move it to the Trash.
5. Empty the Trash when you're sure. This is permanent.

Data synced to your Google Account stays on Google's servers. Manage or delete it from your Google Account.

On macOS 27: macOS keeps apps from outside the App Store out of Chrome's folder unless they have Full Disk Access. Finder still opens it as above. If you use Pangalin Uninstaller, give it Full Disk Access first (System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access); without it, the app lists the folder as "couldn't be checked" and leaves it alone.

Google's updater

Chrome installs Google's software updater, which other Google apps also use. Google doesn't publish steps for removing it on a Mac, so we don't give any. If you have no Google apps left and it appears under Allow in the Background in System Settings › General › Login Items, you can switch it off there.

Based on the developer's own instructions, checked October 2026. Menu names can change between versions.