How to Uninstall VLC Media Player Completely and Easily from Mac Computer

Does uninstall VLC Media Player brings some problems to you? Are you looking for an answer for the problem fix and an effective way to delete the application from your Mac? You must be in the right place here and learn a right way to remove it well.

About VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a (MP3 & Audio Software) application that available for the macOS, with its installation, you will find the installed package in the Applications folder, and some support files and caches are created while you are using it on the computer. And it does not allow to be removed if you do not stop it before running.

What are problems of removing VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player users often need to uninstall the program for many reasons, such as reinstall it or don't want to use it on the computer. In this case, you should firstly consider to uninstall VLC Media Player on the Mac. However, people often come across these problems when perform the removal:

VLC Media Player refuses to be removed from the Mac
VLC Media Player files and data cannot cleaned thoroughly with the app removal
Associated issues and problems appear after removing the application
People can't find an effective way on Mac to remove VLC Media Player

If you want to totally remove VLC Media Player without any of these problems, you should know how can uninstall it and which is the best way to remove it easily and quickly.

Optional ways to uninstall VLC Media Player on Mac compute

1. Remove it manually with the Trash on Mac

The Trash feature on Mac is a powerful remover that enable people to uninstall the unwanted application, and the removal is quite simple, people just need to drag the unwanted program from the Applications folder to the Trash. To remove VLC Media Player from macOS, you can also perform this way of removal on your computer, but the removal is not thorough enough if you just simply finish the dragging, there are some other files which also belonging to VLC Media Player still stay on the computer and need you to delete them manually.

Right-click on VLC Media Player on the Dock, and select Quit to stop VLC Media Player running on your computer
Click on the Finder on the Dock, select Applications on the left pane

Find and locate VLC Media Player in the Applications folder, and drag it to the Trash
Right-click on the Trash, and choose Empty Trash

Restart the computer
Click on Go on the head menu, and select Go to folder...

Type "~/library/" in the box, and press Return key

Double click to open Application Support folder inside, and delete VLC Media Player associated folders and files

Back to the Library folder, and open Caches, clean the VLC Media Player caches inside
Continue, click to open Preferences in the Library, and delete VLC Media Player's files inside

Shortcomings of this manual removal

Although this is a common removal way that many people would choose to uninstall the application on Mac, it often needs the people to take some time to remove those remnants additionally on the computer. And what's more, it is hard for the common people to make clear how many files are left behind on the hard disk, so they might not know whether the program is completely removed or not.

2. Uninstall VLC Media Player automatically with uninstall tool

To replace the manual removal way and perform the VLC Media Player removal more easily and quickly, you can apply a professional Mac uninstall tool to help you complete the removal. And MacRemover is a good choice for you to totally uninstall the app with simple steps.

Steps to uninstall VLC Media Player with MacRemover

Start MacRemover on your Mac
Select XXX on the menu, and click on Run Analysis

Click on Complete Uninstall button, click Yes to confirm and start the removal

After that, please exit the program, and restart your computer

3. Uninstall with attached remover(not always work)

There are some applications for Mac would have a specific uninstaller process on their installed packages, but this is just a small part for the installed programs on Mac, there are still a lot of other programs do not contain such a specific uninstall tool in their installed package. If you find such an uninstall function with the program, you can choose to uninstall VLC Media Player with its own uninstaller. However, you should also notice that the uninstaller will not completely remove the program like the first manual removal way, you still need to check its leftovers on the computer, and clean them manually from your Mac.