User level: Level 1 (5 points)Best way to delete apps that i did not download
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Original Title: Delete apps
Posted on Oct 30, 2026 12:13 PM
User level: Level 10 (99,154 points)Oct 30, 2026 8:35 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
Option 1:
Quit VLC and keep it around for the next time that you want to play a home or other video media.
Option 2:
Quit VLC and open your Applications Folder, drag the VLC app. to the Trash and Empty the Trash.
User level: Level 10 (162,806 points)Oct 30, 2026 6:40 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
If you did not download it, then another user of that Mac did.
Perhaps you just need to quit the app: Quit apps on Mac - Apple Support
Or just leave it be. VLC is one of the more useful third party apps. It is unobtrusive, well documented, and actively supported by an international group of volunteers... a rarity these days. It can handle media file formats Apple abandoned ages ago.
All this assumes you (or whoever) downloaded VLC from its legitimate source — which happens to be https://www.videolan.org/ and nothing else.
If it was dowloaded from a some other, unauthorized source, your problems have just begun.
User level: Level 10 (238,530 points)Oct 30, 2026 12:20 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
What apps, specifically?
You can not delete apps that come with macOS.
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Oct 30, 2026 7:00 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
My iMac froze after several attempts. The Apple appeared with the spinning circle. I forced quit and restarted after 30. minutes with CMD R. Used Disk Utility to scan everything and rebooted Sequoia. Thats all I know.
User level: Level 10 (162,806 points)Oct 31, 2026 1:25 AM in response to Sherrie Toma
VLC appeared when i inserted a home video ...
Describe how you did that. What did you insert? A disc, a flash drive, or...?
Whatever it was, remove what you inserted.
Is there an App I can get to get rid of this?
Never, ever do that.
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Nov 1, 2026 10:35 AM in response to John Galt
lol, thanks. I'm the only person runnng the show here since the late 80's. i broke my wrist last week for the first time in 3/4's of a century and may have inadvertently did what you said. Thank you, I was looking for an easy out but will trudge along when I can type again. As my Baptist sister would say, "Praise the Lord," for people like you John! I also believe in Bigfoot!
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Oct 30, 2026 12:37 PM in response to KiltedTim
VLC it did not com with macOS I used my DVD player to copy home videos
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Oct 30, 2026 12:40 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
I tried to move to trash but it won't go
User level: Level 10 (238,530 points)Oct 30, 2026 12:43 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
Sherrie Toma wrote:
I tried to move to trash but it won't go
What happened when you tried? If you got an error message, what did it say?
You have to give us something to work with here...
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Oct 30, 2026 6:54 PM in response to KiltedTim
No msg, no response. Clicking it just opens the program.
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Oct 30, 2026 8:05 PM in response to Sherrie Toma
VLC appeared when i inserted a home video and automatically started playing the video. Is there an App I can get to get rid of this?
User level: Level 10 (187,102 points)Oct 31, 2026 4:59 AM in response to Sherrie Toma
if your main issue is just that vlc is the default player then try reading
changing default player - Apple Community
&
Choose an app to open a file on Mac - Apple Support
User level: Level 1 (5 points)Nov 1, 2026 10:37 AM in response to Sherrie Toma
...also all the other angels who helped (it is All Saints Day today).
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256386056