[Solved] How To Fully Uninstall IntelliJ IDEA Studio on Mac Big Sur

By Tasnia Salinas, on January 12, 2021, in Mac Uninstaller

What's IntelliJ IDEA? IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment (IDE) written in Java (Learn How To Uninstall Java on Mac) for developing computer software. IntelliJ IDEA is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ), and is available as an Apache 2 Licensed community edition, and in a proprietary commercial edition. Users can use both IntelliJ edition for commercial development.

But you may consider uninstalling IntelliJ IDEA Studio on Mac?IntelliJ IDEA is one of most Java based program language that offers certain features like code completion by analyzing the context. But as IntelliJ needs extra integrations with build/packaging tools like grunt, bower, gradle, and SBT, over time, you may run into kind of developing platform glitches. If you are having these IntelliJ IDEA not working issues on macOS, sometimes it may be helpful to uninstall IntelliJ IDEA before reinstalling it. Follow this article to learn how to uninstall IntelliJ IDEA on Mac.

Table of Content:

• Part 1: Uninstall IntelliJ IDEA Studio With The Best Mac App Uninstaller
• Part 2: The Manual Way To Uninstall IntelliJ IDEA Studio on Mac
• Part 3:  More Helpful IntelliJ IDEA Studio for Mac Uninstall Tips

The average way to remove IntelliJ IDEA is bu using its inbuilt Uninstaller program (Learn How To Uninstall Programs on Mac): Open the Toolbox App, click the screw nut icon for the necessary instance, and select Uninstall. But this way you may leave a large amount of IntelliJ caches, preferences and other kinds of remnants on your Mac. Omni Remover is an expert Mac App Uninstaller software that's made to search all unwanted app leftover junk, show details at large and allow you to completely uninstall IntelliJ IDEA on a Mac.

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Get used to uninstall a software program on Mac by dragging to Trash? For sure you may get rid of the unwanted apps by this simple mean. But the truth is, this way you will leave a large amount of IntelliJ IDEA leftover junk on your Mac. To remove a standalone IntelliJ IDEA instance, use the standard procedure for uninstalling applications on your Mac and remove the IDE configuration and system directories manually.

• Step 1: Quit IntelliJ IDEA Studio and all related components in Activity Monitor app > Launch Finder > Applications >  IntelliJ IDEA Studio > Move IntelliJ IDEA from Applications folder to Trash.

• Step 2: Open Finder > Go To Menu > Tap Go > Go To Folder > Enter ~/Library/Application/Support/IntelliJ/

• Step 3: Search all IntelliJ IDEA extensions and IDE caches in these subfolders: Application Support | Caches | Containers | Frameworks | Logs | Preferences | Saved | Application State | WebKit
Example: ~/Library/Preferences/[Product Name]/[Version]
• Step 4: Clean up all the files associated with IntelliJ IDEA Studio to Trash > Empty Trash and restart your Mac to finish the uninstallation of IntelliJ IDEA Studio on your Mac.

It's an interesting try that the initial install of IntelliJ IDEA only takes about 200MB hard drive disk on our MacBook Pro. However, over time, we found around 2-3GB IntelliJ IDEA platform orphaned junk cleaned up by Omni Remover. IntelliJ IDEA is not the only application that's stubborn and bloated. If you need further Mac Cleaner and Maintenance solution, then give a quick check on the detailed features in Omni Remover.

Now can you get full uninstall on the IntelliJ IDEA app on your Mac with our suggestions above? If you still have any questions, feel free to let us know and we are happy to help. As the more games you installed with IntelliJ IDEA, the more chance you will have your Mac running short of storage. So we recommend you to download Omni Remover to start completely uninstalling IntelliJ IDEA Studio from your Mac. Free Download >

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