How To Uninstall Telegram On Mac? [Two Complete Workarounds]

Telegram is a wonderful cloud-based, encrypted, cross-platform, instant messaging (IM) service that allows you to communicate with strangers who have the same hobbies and interests. However, you may want to uninstall it from your Mac one day either to free up available space or for an app reinstall to tackle with the Telegram not working on Mac issue.

A simple uninstall only takes the app away yet it leaves all Telegram conversation history, caches, junk, packages, root files, etc. on your device, which highly likely affects your Mac running. Therefore, you'd be better off deleting Telegram from your computer completely.

How to delete Telegram completely on Mac is discussed elaborately in this post, so you needn't worry about how to carry out this mission even if you're new to complete app uninstall. Just read on to work on the uninstall task!

How to uninstall Telegram on a Mac by using a professional uninstaller?

The reason why we highly recommend the professional app uninstaller -- iBoysoft MagicMenu is that this handy assistant not only removes unwanted apps, it also lists all of the related files for you to choose what to delete along with the app uninstall. 

With it, you needn't spend time gathering the associated files scattered in different folders and directories for file removal, saving a great amount of time and effort.

For people who use Telegram frequently, it's normal that this app accumulates a whopping size of files including conversation histories, caches, junks, packages, downloads, extensions, preferences settings, scripts to keep the app running, and so on. To delete this app from your Mac completely, you have to remove all the associated files as well, or the leftovers will prevent your device from normally working.

Here is how to completely uninstall Telegram on a Mac using iBoysoft MagicMenu:

Step 1: Click the Free Download button below to install iBoysoft MagicMenu on your Mac.

Step 2: Launch this handy app uninstaller and search the Uninstall extension in its main window to download. 

Note that iBoysoft MagicMenu only takes a little space and so does the Uninstall function, which nearly does not influence your Mac.

Step 3: Go to Finder > Applications, locate Telegram, then right-click it to select Uninstall from the dropdown menu. 

This post takes ZeroTier as an example and the steps to remove Telegram are the same.

Step 4: Wait for this professional app remover to gather all associated files of the will-be-uninstalled app. Once it finishes, check the useless files to let them be removed along with the app.

Step 5: Click Uninstall to confirm your actions and initiate the uninstall progress. This progress may take up to several seconds.

Moreover, iBoysoft MagicMenu is an excellent Mac right-click enhancer that enables you to quickly access items, cut and paste files, create new files, move/copy to, compress files, identify duplicates, convert images, analyze space, record screen, capture screen, and more with just a few clicks. After using this helpful toolkit on your Mac, we're sure you'll be happy with it!

If you're satisfied with iBoysoft MagicMenu's uninstall function, please leave your comment and share it with more people!

How to uninstall Telegram on Mac by using a native uninstaller?

If you are not tired of removing Telegram's associated files one by one which are placed on kinds of folders and directories, you can run a Mac native uninstaller -- Mac Trash to complete this uninstall mission.

It's needless to worry that you have no idea where the files are located since this post walks you through the whole uninstall process, you just follow the steps provided below.

Here is how to uninstall Telegram from your Mac using Mac Trash:

1. Go to Finder > Applications and locate Minecraft.

2. Right-click Telegram to select Move to Trash from the downward menu.

3. Click Finder > Go > Go to Folder.

4. Navigate to the following locations and move them to Mac Trash followingly:

~/Library/Caches/ru.keepcoder.Telegram

~/Library/Application Support/Telegram Desktop

5. Go to this location:

~/Library/Group Containers/

then, find a folder named *.keepcoder.Telegram where the asterisk symbol can be a variable string of letters and symbols, then remove this folder and all its contents to Mac Trash.

*.keepcoder.Telegram

The *.keepcoder.Telegram folder subordinated in the ~/Library/Group Containers/ folder stores the media cache generated by Telegram for faster access. After a long time of use, this location can populate to dozens of gigabytes, so please make sure this folder is totally deleted from your Mac machine.

6. Empty the Mac Trash to ensure all associated files of Telegram are deleted completely!

How to free up Macintosh HD space without uninstalling Telegram?

Some users want to free up more available Macintosh HD space but they still need Telegram, well, in such case, you can remove a folder called "db_sqlite" in the "keepcoder.Telegram" folder solely yet leave Telegram on your machine.

SQLite is a database provider and db is short for database. The database is locally stored on your computer and used to reference any saved data it requires. Deleting this folder would not delete the program, but only delete the data source that the application is connected to.

Note that you'll be logged out once you delete this folder from your Mac, you can log in again and then a new db will be generated in the same location.

Conclusion

This post guides you on how to remove Telegram on a Mac with two workable solutions, one is to use a professional app uninstaller -- iBoysoft MagicMenu, and the other is to launch the Mac native uninstaller. You can try the one that fits you most to carry on this Telegram uninstall task.

Furthermore, if you want to have more available space but do not intend to remove Telegram, you can move its database to Mac Trash solely, which has no side effect or user effect in later Telegram running.