Uninstall Insights Application in Mac OS X – Insights removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Insights apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Insights completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Insights application?

Uninstalling Insights in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Insights you simply need to drag & drop the Insights application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Insights from your machine.

Insights Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Insights application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Insights supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Insights Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Insights is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Insights has saved the files. Some of the location where Insights would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Insights completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Insights Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Insights & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Insights application process running then quit it, make sure that Insights processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Insights name.
Searching "Insights" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Insights app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.