How to uninstall Amazon Chime on Mac

AWS ended support for the Amazon Chime service on February 20, 2026. After that date AWS says you can no longer access the Amazon Chime console or its application resources, so the Mac app is left without the service it was built for. Your chats, contacts and meetings lived on Amazon's side, not in the app, and removing the app does not delete an Amazon Chime account. This guide covers Amazon Chime downloaded from Amazon's client download and the Homebrew cask amazon-chime; both install Amazon Chime.app with the bundle ID com.amazon.Amazon-Chime.

Before you remove it

During the transition AWS documented two exports that needed a signed-in Windows, macOS or web client: Contacts › Export personal contacts for your personal contacts, and Room settings › Export member list for chat room administrators (AWS: Guide to Amazon Chime transition features). If your organization still gives you access and you need either list, export it first. The same page tells anyone who could not delete their data before the end date to contact AWS Support.

The Amazon Chime SDK is a separate AWS developer service that the end of support does not affect; removing this app has nothing to do with it.

Quit Amazon Chime and remove the app

  1. Quit Amazon Chime from its menu and check Activity Monitor that no Amazon Chime process is left.
  2. Move Amazon Chime.app from Applications to the Trash.

Where Amazon Chime keeps its data

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/Amazon Chime The app's local data and web storage, 2.4 MB after one launch in the test Remove it with the app
~/Library/Logs/Amazon Chime App logs Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/com.amazon.Amazon-Chime.plist App preferences Remove with the app
~/Library/Application Support/com.amazon.Amazon-Chime, ~/Library/Caches/com.amazon.Amazon-Chime, ~/Library/WebKit/com.amazon.Amazon-Chime Further data, cache and web data named in the Homebrew zap list Remove with the app if present

The first three were observed in the test; the last row comes from the Homebrew zap list and did not appear after one launch.

Check the result

After the app is in the Trash, run these read-only commands:

pgrep -lf "Amazon Chime.app"
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Amazon Chime" "$HOME/Library/Logs/Amazon Chime"
  • No output from pgrep means the app is not running. A listed process means it is still open.
  • ls -d prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest. Application Support/Amazon Chime still being there is what a Mole uninstall with the default selection leaves; the logs folder should be gone.

If you installed it with Homebrew

Mole skips --zap when the zap list reaches data you left unchecked, a path another installed app uses, or anything Mole cannot check, and it still cleans the leftovers you selected.

The amazon-chime cask's zap list covers ~/Library/Application Support/Amazon Chime, ~/Library/Application Support/com.amazon.Amazon-Chime, the cache, logs, preferences and WebKit data under com.amazon.Amazon-Chime. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap amazon-chime yourself moves all of them to the Trash, whatever you ticked in Mole. With the service gone there is little reason to keep them, but to remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask amazon-chime

Homebrew's amazon-chime cask

What Mole lists

For Amazon Chime downloaded from Amazon:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Amazon Chime is listed but not selected, because it is named after the app rather than its bundle ID. Tick it if you want it gone.
  • The rebuildable caches inside it (Cache, Code Cache, Crashpad, blob_storage) are listed as their own rows and selected by default.
  • ~/Library/Logs/Amazon Chime, the com.amazon.Amazon-Chime preferences file, its recent-documents list and its temporary caches are selected by default.

What this test covered

On September 26, 2026, Amazon Chime 5.23.22533 was downloaded from Amazon's client download, installed, launched once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole with every listed row ticked. While it ran, Mole's Status page showed Amazon Chime as one row of seven processes, about 339 MB. The app and all 10 listed rows went to the Trash, including the 2.4 MB data folder, and a rescan found none of them left; no login item or background task appeared. An earlier test on September 21, 2026 with the same version from the same source gave the same result. No account was signed in, so neither export was tested, and whether the app can still sign in after the end of support was not checked.