Ask HN: Can you uninstall Notion from macOS?

1•watanob•1h ago

I know this is a weird "please fix my computer" post for HN but it's rather bizzarre.

Removing it from Finder's Applications doesn't work. The app is still around even if it's no longer in Finder's Applications.

It keeps popping up in the launcher, sometimes after reboot or after clicking on a deeplink.

Deleting `/Users/$USER/Applications/Notion.app` is not enough either and it keeps reappearing there somehow.

I couldn't find anything online or with the help of LLMs. Notion docs say nothing about this. For all intent and purposes I'm considering it a malware now.

Comments

galaxy_gas•1h ago

Applications are stored in /Applications and not Users/USER/Applications I though?

watanob•1h ago

Should be! But htop is pointing to that path when I get Notion to start and indeed there's an executable appearing there, which I deleted multiple times by now.

robthebrew•1h ago

Try AppCleaner

watanob•1h ago

I did, and Notion keeps appearing.

genezeta•41m ago

Look through ~/Library, particularly in

  ~/Library/Application Support
  ~/Library/Caches
  ~/Library/Containers

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