Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch this video to check out the ways to clear cache on your Mac and save space.
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How to clear cache on Mac:
1. Clear cache on Mac in one click
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2. Delete cache on Mac manually
To locate cache files, open the Finder, and from the Go menu, choose Go to Folder. Now, paste /Library/Caches and press Return.
To remove system cache files, browse through the com.apple folders you see and send files to the Trash.
3. Clear cache files in Safari
Open Safari and go to Settings from the menu bar.
Navigate to the Advanced tab and make sure that the box next to the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" option is selected. In macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, it is named "Show features for web developers".
Quit Settings.
Navigate to Develop – Empty Caches and restart Safari.
4. Clear cache files in Chrome
Open Chrome and paste the following in the search bar chrome://settings. Now, press Return.
Go to the "Privacy and security" section and click "Delete browsing data" there.
From the list, select "Cached images and files".
In "Time range," choose "All time" and click "Delete data".
5. Clear user cache on Mac
Open the Finder, and from the Go menu, choose Go to Folder.
Type in ~/Library/Caches and press Return.
Make sure to delete only the files from the folders, and not send the folders themselves to the Trash.
6. Clear application cache on Mac
Remove the app cache by opening ~/Library/Caches from the Go menu of the Finder.
There, you’ll find different app cache, for example, com.spotify.client stores Spotify cache.
Clear up these folders like we did with user cache: press Command-A to highlight all files and then right-click them and move to Trash.
🚀 Watch this video to learn how to speed up a slow Mac:
youtube.com/watch?v=V-5xim4jDpI
Contents:
00:00 — Intro
00:16 — What are the main cache types
00:52 — Is it safe to remove the cache?
01:20 — How to clear cache on Mac in one click
01:56 — How to manually delete cache on Mac
02:19 — Clearing cache files in Safari
02:55 — Clearing cache files in Chrome
03:16 — How to clear user cache on Mac
03:40 — How to clear application cache on Mac
04:29 — Outro
Watch this video to check out the ways to clear cache on your Mac and save space.
Try CleanMyMac for free here: bit.ly/40gLeJi
How to clear cache on Mac:
1. Clear cache on Mac in one click
👉 Clear cache files on your Mac in a few clicks with CleanMyMac — try it for free for 7 days: bit.ly/40gLeJi
2. Delete cache on Mac manually
To locate cache files, open the Finder, and from the Go menu, choose Go to Folder. Now, paste /Library/Caches and press Return.
To remove system cache files, browse through the com.apple folders you see and send files to the Trash.
3. Clear cache files in Safari
Open Safari and go to Settings from the menu bar.
Navigate to the Advanced tab and make sure that the box next to the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" option is selected. In macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, it is named "Show features for web developers".
Quit Settings.
Navigate to Develop – Empty Caches and restart Safari.
4. Clear cache files in Chrome
Open Chrome and paste the following in the search bar chrome://settings. Now, press Return.
Go to the "Privacy and security" section and click "Delete browsing data" there.
From the list, select "Cached images and files".
In "Time range," choose "All time" and click "Delete data".
5. Clear user cache on Mac
Open the Finder, and from the Go menu, choose Go to Folder.
Type in ~/Library/Caches and press Return.
Make sure to delete only the files from the folders, and not send the folders themselves to the Trash.
6. Clear application cache on Mac
Remove the app cache by opening ~/Library/Caches from the Go menu of the Finder.
There, you’ll find different app cache, for example, com.spotify.client stores Spotify cache.
Clear up these folders like we did with user cache: press Command-A to highlight all files and then right-click them and move to Trash.
🚀 Watch this video to learn how to speed up a slow Mac:
youtube.com/watch?v=V-5xim4jDpI
Contents:
00:00 — Intro
00:16 — What are the main cache types
00:52 — Is it safe to remove the cache?
01:20 — How to clear cache on Mac in one click
01:56 — How to manually delete cache on Mac
02:19 — Clearing cache files in Safari
02:55 — Clearing cache files in Chrome
03:16 — How to clear user cache on Mac
03:40 — How to clear application cache on Mac
04:29 — Outro
