Uninstall QQ on Mac

Check the QQ chats and attachments you want to keep before removing the Mac client. Quitting the app does not back up its local content, and QQ's local chat database sits in a folder that Mole selects by default, covered below. These steps cover the official download and the Homebrew cask.

Save what you need first

Check whether the history you need is available on your phone or another device. Signing in to the same account does not prove every local conversation has synced. Save Mac-only attachments to a folder of your own and open them. Keep chat data unless you have verified that you can recover it.

Quit and remove the app

Finish calls and file transfers, quit QQ from its menu, and move it from Applications to the Trash. If macOS says it is in use, check Activity Monitor for a remaining QQ process.

Where QQ keeps local data

In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and open each location that exists.

FN2V63AD2J is QQ's own signing team. WeChat and Tencent Meeting sign with different team IDs, so their data is not in this group, and QQ's data is not in theirs. Do not remove other folders just because their name contains Tencent.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands in Terminal:

pgrep -ilf "QQ.app"
du -sh "$HOME/Library/Containers/com.tencent.qq" "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/FN2V63AD2J.com.tencent"

No output from pgrep means QQ is no longer running. du prints the size of each folder that still exists; "No such file or directory" means that folder is gone. If you meant to keep your history, both folders should still be listed.

Finally, confirm QQ is gone, saved attachments open, and other Tencent apps still work.

If chats are missing after reinstalling

Pause further cleanup. Check whether the old Mac still has local history that you have not proved recoverable, and whether saved attachments open. Signing in to QQ does not establish that every Mac chat was synced, so login success alone is not a reason to remove old support data.

If you installed it with Homebrew

Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or cannot be fully checked, and still cleans the leftovers you selected.

Running brew uninstall --cask --zap qq yourself runs the cask's zap list on its own, whatever you selected in Mole. It includes ~/Library/Containers/com.tencent.qq, with the local chat database inside, and ~/Library/Group Containers/FN2V63AD2J.com.tencent, plus QQ's screenshot and share extensions. Back up the history you need first. Homebrew QQ cask

To remove only the app and keep that data:

brew uninstall --cask qq

What Mole lists

~/Library/Containers/com.tencent.qq is selected by default because it carries QQ's bundle id, and it holds the local chat database. Untick it unless your history is recoverable elsewhere. The cache and preferences are selected by default. The share extension's com.tencent.qq.share Containers and Application Scripts folders are selected by default too. Mole does not select ~/Library/Group Containers/FN2V63AD2J.com.tencent or its Application Scripts folder by default. QQ for Mac

What this test covered

The recorded uninstall used the Homebrew cask on September 17, 2026, so Homebrew's zap list removed the files. QQ files that were on the Mac before the test were not counted as new leftovers. The group container was ticked by hand in that run and could not be moved. On September 26, 2026, QQ 7.0.0 from Tencent's official disk image was installed, opened once without signing in and removed with a development build of Mole with every row ticked, the group container included. Mole's Status page showed QQ as one row of six processes. All 13 items went to the Trash, the group container among them, and none of them was still on disk afterwards. Neither test checked chat-backup recovery.