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How to Remove iPhone and iPad Applications from an M1 Mac

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If you own an Apple-powered Mac, you can download and install iOS and iPadOS apps in macOS Big Sur via the Mac App Store. However, how do you remove them? Continue reading to discover how.

Apple's M1 Macs

Apple's M1 Macs, the first to be powered by an Apple-designed Arm-based CPU, are capable of running iOS and iPadOS apps due to the operating systems' shared architecture.

That means M1 Mac customers may download and install iOS apps from the Mac App Store just as they would Mac software, and Apple even offers Touch Alternatives options that allow users to configure keyboard commands for iPhone/iPad touch input alternatives.

However, many customers have expressed confusion over how to properly delete iOS apps on an Apple silicon-based Mac.

The question arises because many users have attempted to drag the app icon to the Trash in the conventional manner, only to discover that while the app binary is deleted, much of the app's associated content remains on the disk, typically in the /Library/Containers folder, taking up unnecessary storage space.

Fortunately, there is a foolproof technique to ensure that all data linked with an iOS app is erased when it is uninstalled, but it does require the use of a few Terminal commands, so make sure you're comfortable working in a command prompt window before proceeding.

How to Remove iOS Applications from an M1 Mac

  1. Drag the software you wish to delete into the Trash by opening the Applications folder.
  2. Now, run Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) from the Applications folder.
  3. Enter the command cd /Library/Containers at the Terminal window's prompt.
  4. Then type find. -iname "*appname*" and replace "appname" with the name of the app you just dragged to the Trash. This command should print any matches that are discovered, which are often in the form of disguised directory names (eg. 0D3DA1EC-21FB-4836-B6A7-8C6053EF9567).
  5. Next, type rm -Rf XXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  6. If the output contains multiple directories, repeat the previous step for each directory.

The iOS application and its associated data should now be completely erased from your Mac.

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