How to uninstall Tencent Video (腾讯视频) on Mac

Tencent Video, 腾讯视频, keeps your VIP membership, watch history and favourites with your account, so removing the Mac app deletes none of them and does not stop an auto-renewing VIP plan; cancel that where you subscribed. Videos you downloaded for offline viewing are a different matter: find where the app saves them before you uninstall, because that folder is outside this guide and the recorded tests did not download anything. The app's bundle is named QQLive.app and uses the bundle ID com.tencent.tenvideo, while Mole's Status shows it as 腾讯视频. This guide covers the app downloaded from v.qq.com and the Homebrew cask qqlive.

Quit and remove the app

  1. Quit 腾讯视频 with Command + Q. Status showed it as one row with eight processes and about 1.4 GB after its first launch.
  2. Move QQLive from Applications to the Trash.
  3. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. In the September 20 test Tencent Video had an entry there, and it was gone after the uninstall. If one is still listed, turn it off.

Where the app keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each location, skipping any that is missing. Tencent does not document these paths; they come from Homebrew's zap list and the recorded tests.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Containers/com.tencent.tenvideo The app's local data, 9.5 MB after one launch Remove it with the app once your downloads are safe
~/Library/Caches/com.tencent.tenvideo and ~/Library/Application Support/Caches/com.tencent.tenvideo Caches Safe to remove
~/Library/Application Support/com.tencent.tenvideo Support files Remove it with the app
~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo A folder placed directly in Library, about 0.6 MB; Tencent does not say what it holds Look inside, then remove it
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.tencent.tenvideo, ~/Library/WebKit/com.tencent.tenvideo Network and web storage, including the sign-in state Remove them; you sign in again after a reinstall
~/Library/Preferences/com.tencent.tenvideo.plist Preferences Remove it with the app
~/Library/Logs/QQLive Logs, listed in Homebrew's zap list; the tests did not see it Remove it if it exists

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the app is in the Trash:

pgrep -il qqlive
ls -d ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo ~/Library/Containers/com.tencent.tenvideo ~/Library/Logs/QQLive
  • No output from pgrep means the app is not running. A listed QQLive process means it is still open.
  • ls -d prints each folder that still exists. ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo surviving is expected if you left it unticked in Mole. "No such file or directory" means that folder is gone.

If you installed it with Homebrew

When you remove a Homebrew install, Mole runs Homebrew's uninstall and adds --zap only when every path in the cask's zap list sits inside ~/Library, none of them is a row you left unticked, and no other installed app claims it. Otherwise it leaves --zap out and still removes the rows you ticked.

The qqlive cask's zap list covers the container, the cache, ~/Library/Cookies/com.tencent.tenvideo.binarycookies, ~/Library/Logs/QQLive, the preferences file, the saved window state and the WebKit folder. brew uninstall --cask --zap qqlive moves them to the Trash whatever you ticked in Mole. It does not include ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo or the Application Support folders, so check those afterwards. To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask qqlive

Tencent Video download page · Homebrew's qqlive cask

What Mole lists

For the app downloaded from v.qq.com:

  • The container, both cache folders, the Application Support folder, HTTPStorages, WebKit and the preferences file under com.tencent.tenvideo are selected by default, because each is named after the bundle ID.
  • The temporary folders macOS keeps for the app are selected by default.
  • ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo is listed but not selected, because it sits outside the usual Library folders.
  • Downloaded videos are not listed.

What this test covered

On September 26, 2026, 腾讯视频 2.183.0 from Tencent's official download was copied into Applications without Homebrew, launched once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole, with every listed item ticked for the test. Status showed one row, 腾讯视频, with eight processes and about 1.4 GB. The app and all 13 listed rows went to the Trash, ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo included, and none of the files it had written were left. No startup item appeared before or after. An earlier test on September 20, 2026 used the official package with Mole 1.15 Preview build 280 and its default selection; ~/Library/com.tencent.tenvideo stayed on disk because it was not ticked, and the login item that test saw was gone afterwards. Neither test signed in or downloaded a video, and the Homebrew cask was not tested.