How To Clean Uninstall MATLAB on Mac

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

What Is MATLAB? MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, C#, Java (Uninstall Java Mac), Fortran and Python (Uninstall Python Mac).

Why uninstalling MATLAB on Mac? MATLAB has a number of competitors and alternatives, such as commercial Mathematica, TK Solver, Maple, and free open sourced GNU Octave, Scilab, FreeMat, and SageMath. So if you have better option for numerical computing development deploy tool, then follow this quick tutorial to learn how to completely uninstall MATLAB on macOS Mojave (How To Uninstall Postgres (PostgreSQL) on Mac).

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Table of Content:

• Part 1: How To Uninstall MATLAB on Mac Manually
• Part 2: How To Clean Uninstall MATLAB on Mac [Time-Saving Method]

MATLAB includes the Live Editor for creating scripts that combine code, output, and formatted text in an executable notebook. To uninstall MATLAB on a Mac, you can simply drag it to Trash but this will leave a mess of leftover junk. Follow steps below to learn how to clean uninstall MATLAB on Mac manually (How To Uninstall Disk Drill on Mac).

• Step 1: Quit MATLAB and stop all MATLAB related components in Activity Monitor > Open Finder app on Mac > Applications > MATLAB > Move MATLAB to Trash:

• Step 2: To clean up MATLAB file extensions (including MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, MuPAD, etc), user preferences and other orphaned data, open Finder > Go > Go To Folder > Enter ~/Library/Application/Support/MATLAB/

• Step 3: Search all the MATLAB files by digging into each folder. Most of them are stored in: Application Support | Caches | Containers | Frameworks | Logs | Preferences | Saved | Application State | WebKit

• Step 4: Clean up the files associated with MATLAB to Trash > Empty Trash and restart your Mac to finish the removal of MATLAB on your Mac.

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