12-Feb-2017
I had a need to install
Samsung's Smart Switch app on my
Mac this weekend to transfer files over from an
Android phone. That's when I discovered how horribly incompatible
Android and
Apple devices really are and just how terrible
Samsung's software is. They don't follow the standard way that apps that run on a
Mac get uninstalled, preferring the
Windows style approach instead. Boo. This is how you get rid of
Smart Switch from your
Mac if you happened to (probably accidentally) have installed it.
First go to the
Applications folder in
Finder and look for the
Smart Switch folder. Yep, it's in its own folder for some god awful reason instead of using the normal application package structure.
Double click the
Uninstall.app from the
Smart Switch folder and click
Yes.
It will ask you to enter your password since some drivers are going to be uninstalled, so do that and click
OK.
Once the uninstaller finishes removing the app click
Complete.
The
Smart Switch folder isn't automatically removed from the
Applications directory so you can go ahead and move it to
Trash now.
-i
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