Uninstalling Tailscale

The standalone version of Tailscale can be uninstalled by dragging its icon to the Trash and confirming that the system extension will also be removed.

If you'd like to completely delete Tailscale, removing any state or local information, you can also take the following steps:

1. Remove the Tailscale VPN configuration in System Settings if it still exists. macOS 13.0 or later: Open System Settings > Network > VPN. Look for Tailscale in the list of services. If it's there, select the circled i and then select the Remove Configuration button . Be sure to apply your changes.

   Previous macOS versions: Open System Preferences > Network. Look for Tailscale Tunnel in the list of services. If it's there, remove it by selecting it and pressing the - button at the bottom. Be sure to apply your changes.

2. Remove the following files if they exist in the specified paths. As some of these may be owned by the root user, deleting them may require using sudo rm -rf <path> in the Terminal.

   ~/Library/Application Scripts/*.io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/Application Scripts/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/Application Scripts/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys.login-item-helper
   ~/Library/Application Scripts/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys.share-extension
   ~/Library/Caches/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/Containers/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/Containers/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys.login-item-helper
   ~/Library/Containers/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys.share-extension
   ~/Library/Containers/Tailscale
   ~/Library/Group Containers/*.io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/HTTPStorages/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys
   ~/Library/Preferences/io.tailscale.ipn.macsys.plist
   ~/Library/Tailscale
   

   Alternatively, if Homebrew is installed, you may automate the files deletion by running this command which will perform the uninstall steps defined in the Tailscale cask.

   brew uninstall --cask --zap --force tailscale
   

After taking these steps, if you install Tailscale on this device again at a later time, it will have a new IP address.