How to completely remove Adobe Flash from your Mac

After a three-year warning, the end of Adobe Flash officially happened. And with that, Adobe strongly recommends that users uninstall it from their computers immediately. Read on to learn how to completely remove Adobe Flash from your Mac.

Adobe has officially withdrawn support for Flash starting today, January 1, 2021. And in just under two weeks, Adobe will block all Flash content from working in the Flash Player.

Adobe strongly recommends that all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems. Some users may continue to see reminders from Adobe to uninstall Flash Player from their systems.

See why Adobe says it is important to remove it: “Uninstalling Flash Player will help protect your system, as Adobe does not intend to release Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Data.”

Remember that you don’t just want to remove Adobe Flash from the preferences panel in System Preferences. Here’s what to do to completely uninstall it from your Mac …

How to completely remove Adobe Flash from your Mac

Deauthorizing Flash on your Mac

If you care about privacy, go to System Preferences> Flash Player (found at the bottom) first
In the upper right corner, click the Advanced tab
Choose Deauthorize this computer …

Remove Adobe Flash entirely

Open a Finder window and select Applications, now open Utilities (or look for the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager application)
Open Adobe Flash Player Install Manager> click Uninstall
You will receive a confirmation when it is successfully removed
You can use a third-party application like Clean My Mac or Sensei to search and remove any strange Flash files, but for me the official Adobe Flash uninstaller has removed everything