You may want to consider moving items (such as photos, large files, movies, etc.) to another disk, such as an external drive, USB drive, DVD, or cloud storage. If you want to remove other apps, drag the app icon to the trash then empty the trash. If you want to delete/uninstall an app that you purchased from the Mac App Store, open Launchpad then press and hold down the app icon that you want to remove, when they jiggle, click the delete (x) button. Open your Applications folder and delete any apps that you no longer use. For instance you may want to delete the disk image (.dmg) files. And drag any item you do not need to the Trash then empty the trash. First check to make sure that you do not need any of these items.
To find out more about Optimize Storage, read our post How to Use Optimize Storage on Mac to Gain Back Hard Drive Space. To access this utility, go to Apple menu > About This Mac > Storage > Manage... Open Disk Utility ( Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility), then click your disk then click info, as seen in the following screen shot:Īpple has provided a utility called “Optimize Storage” that is built-in to the macOS. Clean up temporary files, system caches and logsġ.