With the ongoing change from kernel extensions to system extensions, one new thing Mac admins will need to learn is how to uninstall system extensions. Fortunately, Apple has provided a tool as of macOS Catalina that assists with this: systemextensionsctl
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If you run the systemextensionsctl command by itself, you should get the following information about usage:
The last verb, uninstall, is what allows us to remove system extensions. For more details, please see below the jump.
To uninstall a system extension using systemextensionsctl, you need to provide the following:
- Team identifier of the certificate used to sign the system extension
- Bundle identifier for the system extension
Locating Team and bundle identifiers
You can identify team and bundle identifiers by locating the system extension in question inside the application and running the following commands:
To identify the Team identifier:
To identify the bundle identifier:
For example, Microsoft Defender ATP currently has several system extensions within its application bundle:
- /Applications/Microsoft Defender ATP.app/Contents/Library/SystemExtensions/com.microsoft.wdav.epsext.systemextension
- /Applications/Microsoft Defender ATP.app/Contents/Library/SystemExtensions/com.microsoft.wdav.netext.systemextension
- /Applications/Microsoft Defender ATP.app/Contents/Library/SystemExtensions/com.microsoft.wdav.tunnelext.systemextension
To find the bundle identifier for the com.microsoft.wdav.epsext.systemextension system extension, run the command shown below:
That should give you the following output:
To find the Team identifier for the com.microsoft.wdav.epsext.systemextension system extension, run the command shown below:
That should give you the following output:
Uninstalling a system extension
Once you have both, you can run the following command with root privileges to uninstall a system extension:
For example, if you wanted to uninstall Microsoft Defender’s com.microsoft.wdav.epsext.systemextension system extension, you would run the following command with root privileges:
Note: As of September 1, 2020, running the systemextensionsctl uninstall command requires System Integrity Protection (SIP) to be disabled. This limitation is supposed to be removed by Apple at some point in the very near future.
-->You can use this guide to uninstall each component in Visual Studio for Mac individually by navigating to the relevant section, or you can use the scripts provided in the Uninstall Script section to uninstall everything.
Note
This information will only remove Visual Studio 2019 or 2017 for Mac from your machine. to uninstall Visual Studio Code, see this issue for details.
Uninstall Script
There are two scripts that can be used to uninstall Visual Studio for Mac and all components for your machine:
Mac Uninstall
The following sections provide information on downloading and using the scripts.
Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin script
You can uninstall Visual Studio and Xamarin components in one go by using the uninstall script.
This uninstall script contains most of the commands that you will find in the article. There are three main omissions from the script and are not included due to possible external dependencies. To remove this, jump to the relevant section below and remove them manually:
To run the script, do the following steps:
- Right-click on the script and select Save As to save the file on your Mac.
- Open Terminal and change the working directory to where the script was downloaded:
- Make the script executable and the run it with sudo:
- Finally, delete the uninstall script and remove Visual Studio for Mac from the dock (if it's there).
.NET Core script
The uninstall script for .NET Core is located in the dotnet cli repo
To run the script, do the following steps:
- Right-click on the script and select Save As to save the file on your Mac.
- Open Terminal and change the working directory to where the script was downloaded:
- Make the script executable and the run it with sudo:
- Finally, delete the .NET Core uninstall script.
Uninstall Visual Studio for Mac
The first step in uninstalling Visual Studio from a Mac is to locate Visual Studio.app in the /Applications directory and drag it to the Trash Can. Alternatively, right-click and select Move to Trash as illustrated in the following image:
Deleting this app bundle removes Visual Studio for Mac, even though there may be other files related to Xamarin still on the file system.
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To remove all traces of Visual Studio for Mac, run the following commands in Terminal:
You may also want to remove the following directory containing various Xamarin files and folders. However, before you do you should be aware that this directory contains the Android signing keys. For more information refer to the section Uninstalling Android SDK and Java SDK:
Uninstall Mono SDK (MDK)
Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework and is used by all Xamarin Products—Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Mac to allow development of these platforms in C#.
Warning
There are other applications outside of Visual Studio for Mac that also use Mono, such as Unity.Be sure that there are no other dependencies on Mono before uninstalling it.
To remove the Mono Framework from a machine, run the following commands in Terminal:
Uninstall Xamarin.Android
There are a number of items required for the installation and use of Xamarin.Android, such as the Android SDK and Java SDK.
Use the following commands to remove Xamarin.Android:
Uninstall Android SDK and Java SDK
The Android SDK is required for development of Android applications. To completely remove all parts of the Android SDK, locate the file at ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/ and move it to Trash.
Warning
You should be aware that Android signing keys that are generated by Visual Studio for Mac are located in
~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/Keystore
. Make sure to back these up appropriately, or avoid removing this directory if you wish to keep your keystore.The Java SDK (JDK) does not need to be uninstalled, as it is already pre-packaged as part of Mac OS X / macOS.
Uninstall Android AVD
Warning
There are other applications outside of Visual Studio for Mac that also use Android AVD and these additional android components, such as Android Studio.Removing this directory may cause projects to break in Android Studio.
To remove any Android AVDs and additional Android components use the following command:
To remove only the Android AVDs use the following command:
Uninstall Xamarin.iOS
Xamarin.iOS allows iOS application development using C# or F# with Visual Studio for Mac.
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Use the following commands in Terminal to remove all Xamarin.iOS files from a file system:
Uninstall Xamarin.Mac
Xamarin.Mac can be removed from your machine using the following two commands to eradicate the product and license from your Mac respectively:
Uninstall Workbooks and Inspector
Starting with 1.2.2, Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector can be uninstalled from a terminal by running:
For older versions, you need to manually remove the following artifacts:
- Delete the Workbooks app at
'/Applications/Xamarin Workbooks.app'
- Delete the Inspector app at
'Applications/Xamarin Inspector.app'
- Delete the add-ins:
'~/Library/Application Support/XamarinStudio-6.0/LocalInstall/Addins/Xamarin.Interactive'
and'~/Library/Application Support/XamarinStudio-6.0/LocalInstall/Addins/Xamarin.Inspector'
- Delete Inspector and supporting files here:
/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Interactive.framework
and/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Inspector.framework
Uninstall the Xamarin Profiler
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Uninstall the Visual Studio Installer
Use the following commands to remove all traces of the Xamarin Universal Installer:
Uninstall Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview was launched as a separate preview, allowing you to continue to work with your Visual Studio 2017 for Mac install side-by-side.
Now that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac has been released, you can now safely remove the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview application.
To uninstall the preview application bundle, select Visual Studio (Preview) from your Applications folder and click Move to Trash, as depicted in the following image:
You can also remove the Preview plist file with the following command: