Remove the app

  1. Quit Clipboard History.Click its icon in the menu bar and choose Quit Clipboard History. Can’t see the icon? Open Activity Monitor, select Clipboard History, click the stop button and choose Quit.
  2. Move it to the Trash.In Finder, open Applications and drag Clipboard History to the Trash, or right-click it and choose Move to Trash.
  3. Empty the Trash.Do this once you’re sure you won’t need the app again.

Removing everything? Before you quit, turn off Launch at login in Settings → General so no login item is left behind, then follow the optional steps below.

Delete your history and settings

Everything Clipboard History saves is in one folder, its sandbox container. Deleting the app leaves that folder in place, so reinstalling picks up where you left off. To delete it:

  1. Open the Containers folder.In Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder… or press , type ~/Library/Containers/ and press Return.
  2. Find the app’s folder.Finder shows it as Clipboard History; its real name is app.clipboard-history.
  3. Move it to the Trash.Then empty the Trash.

Or, with the app quit, run this in Terminal:

rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/app.clipboard-history

The folder holds:

  • Data/Library/Application Support/Clipboard History/: your history, in clipboard.sqlite and two companion files.
  • Data/Library/Preferences/app.clipboard-history.plist: your settings, such as the excluded apps, the shortcut, the history size, the appearance, the pause state and whether setup is done.

Used a version before 0.0.27?

Earlier versions weren’t sandboxed. macOS moves their history into the container the first time a newer version opens, but if either of these is still there, delete it too:

~/Library/Application Support/Clipboard History ~/Library/Preferences/app.clipboard-history.plist

Remove the auto-paste permission

If you allowed auto-paste, Clipboard History can stay listed under Accessibility after the app is gone.

  1. Open the list.Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
  2. Remove Clipboard History.Select it, click − below the list and confirm with your password or Touch ID.

Remove the login item

If Launch at login was on when you deleted the app, check System Settings → General → Login Items (called Login Items & Extensions on macOS 15 and later). If Clipboard History is still in the Open at Login list, select it and click −. It may be there even if you never turned it on: versions 0.0.26 and earlier turned it on by themselves.

Only want to erase your history?

You don’t need to uninstall. Choose Settings… from the menu bar icon, open Storage, click Clear all history and confirm with Clear All. Every clip is deleted, favorites included; empty group tabs stay until you right-click each one and choose Delete Group. Words from deleted clips can stay in the database’s search index, though, so if you want no trace left, delete the app’s data as described above.

To stop recording for a while instead, choose Pause Recording or Pause For (5 minutes to 8 hours) in the menu bar. The privacy page lists every control.