This removal guide is for the latest version of Citrix Receiver for Mac. To completely remove Citrix Receiver, we have done much technical analysis on it. If you want to remove Citrix Receiver manually, you need to know the following installation information.
1> Information of Citrix Receiver installer:
- Format: DMG
- Size: 44.5 MB
The following is the information about files, folders and processes after Citrix Receiver is installed. With this information in hand we can now manually uninstall Citrix Receiver completely.
2> Basic information of the app:
- Size: 73 MB
3> Add-on software:
- Citrix Viewer.app
- Citrix Receiver Launcher.app
4> Process information:
- 4.1 Main process:
- Citrix Receiver
- 4.2 Associated process:
- Citrix Viewer
- Citrix Receiver Launcher
- ReceiverHelper
- ServiceRecords
- AuthManager_Mac
5> Folders:
- Citrix Viewer
- Citrix Receiver Launcher
- ReceiverHelper
- ServiceRecords
- AuthManager_Mac
- Citrix Receiver
- com.citrix.receiver.nomes
6> Files:
- receiverinstall.log
- com.citrix.receiver.nomas.*
7> Framework/Extensions/XPC/Plugins
- CTXUtilities.framework
- ICAServices.framework
Simply dragging Citrix Receiver to Trash cannot uninstall it completely to free disk space on Mac OS but leave a lot of remnant files.
How to manually remove Citrix Receiver completely?
- 8.1> Start Activity Monitor. Select the process name “Citrix Receiver” and hit the “Force Quit” button.
- 8.2> Open Applications folder. Find “Citrix Receiver” and drag it to Trash.
- 8.3> Open Finder or Spotlight. Search for Citrix Receiver files and folders and delete them.
How to automaticlly remove Citrix Receiver ?
- 9.1> Install and Start MacRemover
- 9.2> Launch the MacRemover, highlight the icon of Citrix Receiver and then click “Run Analysis”, which will scan out all the traces of the unwanted application automatically.
- 9.3> Click on the “Complete Uninstall” button and then choose “YES” to confirm your operation.