Uninstall League of Legends on Mac

If you want to uninstall League of Legends from your Mac, this article is for you. We’ll provide a step-by-step guide on how to correctly and completely remove LoL from macOS Sonoma and other early versions of macOS.

Why uninstall League of Legends

Actually, the reason why we decided to write an uninstallation guide for League of Legends is a question on Reddit asking for help to solve the removal issue.

“Want to uninstall LoL, but it’s not in the programs list. What do?”(Source)

Before we start learning the two methods on how to entirely remove LoL from your machine, see the main reason you might need to get rid of the game:

You need to free up space on your computer. League of Legends takes up a huge space on the hard drive, and when it comes to running low on disk space, you can uninstall the biggest space consumers.
You want to protect your computer from hidden viruses. If you downloaded the game from the official website, the risk of getting malware is minimal. Actually, it is believed that macOS is completely protected from viruses. However, viruses might get onto a computer. This is a reason why you might want to delete the game from your Mac.
Read the article “Adware and Malware Removal on Mac.”
You want to stop playing games and change your life habits. The game industry is growing very fast. You might want to try another online game, or just stop spending your time playing at all.

We found no uninstallation instructions on the official League of Legends website. You also should know that simply moving applications to Trash is wrong. Such a way will not uninstall applications completely, and their traces will remain on your disk. Keep reading to learn how to do this correctly.

How to manually remove League of Legends on Mac

Here are the steps on how to remove the game from your Mac:

Quit League of Legends. For this, go to the Riot Client menu and select the Quit LeagueClient option.
Go to the Applications folder, drag League of Legends into the Trash.
Go to the system Library folder and find and remove support files of the game. For this, in Finder, press Command+Shift+G and type ~/Library in the search field. Press Enter.
Select and remove the League of Legends folder into Trash:
- ~Library/Application Support/Riot Games
- ~Library/Saved Application State/com.riotgames.LeagueofLegends.LoLPatcher.savedState
Empty your Trash.
Restart your system. The last step is not mandatory. However, it is recommended to make sure that you have removed the app entirely.

We should note the LoL developers surprised me that there are a tiny number of support files. Usually, applications create lots of support files and even spread them out all over the disk, making it extremely difficult to find and remove all of them. Anyway, We recommend that you also learn the automatic way of uninstalling the game since it is easier. Using this method allows you to completely uninstall 1000+ Mac applications.

Read also: “How to uninstall Steam on Mac“

The quickest way to uninstall League of Legends on Mac

App Cleaner & Uninstaller is a tool to completely uninstall applications on a Mac, disable startup programs, remove leftovers of apps, and change default apps by file types. Here’s how to use it:

Quit the game app.
Launch App Cleaner & Uninstaller.
From the list of apps, select League of Legends.
Click the Remove button.

App Cleaner Uninstaller showing the League of Legends app

Note, that with App Cleaner & Uninstaller, you can also find the leftovers of already deleted apps. This means, that if you have already removed League of Legends into the Trash, you can check your system with its support files. For this, switch to the Remaining Files section in App Cleaner & Uninstaller. You will see the list of all junk files left after deleting apps incorrectly. Select these files and click to remove them.