How to uninstall Citrix Workspace on Mac

A full Citrix Workspace installation puts more on your Mac than the app: Citrix's installer package adds background services and system files, and Citrix's own uninstall methods remove them together with the app. Use one of those methods, keep Citrix Workspace in Applications until it has finished, and clean up the few per-user folders afterwards. Close your virtual apps and desktops first. On a Mac your organization manages, check with IT before removing it. These steps cover the official package from citrix.com and the Homebrew cask citrix-workspace; Mole's test covered only the app copied out of that package, not a full installation.

Remove it with Citrix's uninstall methods

These follow Citrix's Install, uninstall, and upgrade page.

1. Quit Citrix Workspace: from the menu bar choose Citrix Workspace › Quit Citrix Workspace, right-click its Dock icon and choose Quit, or open the Quick Access menu, click the Account icon and choose Quit.
2. Drag Citrix Workspace from Applications to the Trash, or right-click it and choose Options › Move to Bin. When prompted, enter your Mac's administrator credentials, close the running apps it lists and click Continue. Citrix says this deletes the app and all its system files.
3. Or open the Citrix Workspace .dmg file and choose Uninstall Citrix Workspace App, then follow the on-screen steps.
4. Or run Citrix's uninstaller from Terminal. It exists only after a full installation and needs your administrator password:

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/Citrix\ Receiver/Uninstall\ Citrix\ Workspace.app/Contents/MacOS/Uninstall\ Citrix\ Workspace --nogui

Where Citrix Workspace keeps its files

In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and check each location. Skip the ones that do not exist.

The system locations come from Citrix's documentation and the Homebrew cask; the per-user folders come from the cask's zap list and the recorded test.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands in Terminal:

pgrep -il citrix
ls /Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchAgents | grep -i citrix
pkgutil --pkgs | grep -i citrix
ls -d "/Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver" "/Library/Citrix Workspace" "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Citrix Workspace"

• No output from pgrep means no Citrix process is running. A listed process after uninstalling means a Citrix service is still loaded; restart the Mac and check again.
• No output from the second line means no Citrix launch daemon or agent file is left. A listed file means part of the full installation is still there; run Citrix's uninstaller rather than deleting files one at a time.
• pkgutil --pkgs lists the package receipts macOS keeps for installed packages. A com.citrix. receipt left after the app is gone means the full installation was not removed by Citrix's uninstaller.
• ls -d prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest. /Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver still being there means Citrix's uninstaller is still available, so you can run it. A surviving /Library/Citrix Workspace means the system files of a full installation are still there.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The citrix-workspace cask installs Citrix's package. Its uninstall step quits Citrix Workspace and its helpers, unloads twelve launch jobs such as com.citrix.ReceiverHelper and com.citrix.ctxusbd, forgets the package receipts such as com.citrix.ICAClient, and deletes the app and /Library/Citrix Workspace, which needs an administrator password. Its zap list adds /Library/Logs/Citrix Workspace, ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix, Citrix Receiver and Citrix Workspace in Application Support, and the caches, HTTP storage, preferences, WebKit data and saved window state of Citrix's apps. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap citrix-workspace yourself does not look at Mole's checkboxes. Homebrew Citrix Workspace cask

To remove the app without the zap step:

brew uninstall --cask citrix-workspace

Mole never adds --zap for this cask, because /Library/Logs/Citrix Workspace sits outside ~/Library.

What Mole lists

When you remove Citrix Workspace with Mole:

• ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix Workspace is listed but not selected.
• Its logs, and the WebKit data and HTTP storage filed under com.citrix.receiver.nomas, are selected by default.
• The Quick Access extension's container is selected by default, but macOS can refuse to move it to the Trash.
• ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver and the shared group container S272Y5R93J.group.com.citrix.shared are not listed.
• Mole does not run Citrix's uninstaller.

What this test covered

On September 21, 2026, the Citrix Workspace 26.09.0 app was taken out of the official package and copied into Applications, without running the installer or its helpers, opened once without signing in, and removed with Mole 1.15 Preview (build 282), with every row in the review list ticked. The 1.13 GB app, ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix Workspace (61 KB), the logs, WebKit data and HTTP storage went to the Trash. macOS refused to move the Quick Access extension's container and three WebKit folders in the per-user temporary folder, so they stayed. The empty ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver and the shared group container were not listed and stayed. Because the installer never ran, the test does not show how Mole handles the services, system files and package receipts of a full installation, and Citrix's uninstaller, sign-in and the Homebrew cask were not tested.