Delete Player Location Check on your Mac

Update: It's def an installed app. If you go to the application, it is there. When you try to drag it to trash, you get the notice that it cannot be deleted because it is open. However, it does not show as open or running in force quit. Not sure how else to delete it?

Hello Apple friends! Solution provided on NOV10,2019

After spending about 40 min with apple this is the most effective way to remove PLAYER LOCATION CHECK.

To remove PlayerLocationCheck

Restart Mac in safe mode ( HOLD SHIFT WHEN STARTING KEEP HOLDING UNTIL APPLE LOGO AND LOAD BAR SHOW)

Navigate to application in Finder > move PlayerLocationCheck to trash

Open Finder. 

Open Finder > Macintosh HD > Library > LaunchAgents > remove anything with com.GeoComply

Finder > Macintosh HD > Library > LaunchDaemons > remove anything with com.GeoComply

Finder > Macintosh HD > System > Library > do the same for launchagents and launchdaemons folders

Was provided by the awesome Brendon at apple support!

Hope this helps you all! Hackers are getting smarter these days hopefully this community can stick together and put an end the their crap!

Greetings, I found this icon after an update today and a quick search led me here. I found a launch script launchatLogin.sh inside the package contents. I was able to use launchctl to unload the program and delete it.

sudo -u $logedinuser /bin/launchctl unload -wF /Library/LaunchAgents/com.GeoComply.PlayerLocationCheck.Agent.plist

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.GeoComply.PlayerLocationCheck.Agent.plist: Operation now in progress

I was then able to move it to trash

I'm having the same issue. The response is unclear to me as well. Can anyone assist with this?

The prompt from Player Location Check is 'player location check requires that you allow access to your location'.

I'm fairly certain this has to do with DraftKings or FanDuel. Like the original poster, I never installed software nor know how to get rid of this prompt. It stays on the top toolbar on the screen and only started after the last OS update. Any insight?

I opened up Safari because I was trying to figure out a way to uninstall it all together. Seems this player thing wanted me to enable location services in the browser. So I opened up Safari Preferences, websites, location, denying the Player thing, was able to remove it and uninstall. I sorry this may not be exact as I was just kind of pushing buttons hoping something would happen. I may have allowed the app to use location, and then it allowed me to access it so I could uninstall? But it was something definitely along these lines. Sorry, I’m not a tech guy. Just seems like I’ve done something successful accidentally:-/ All this after multiple virus / malware scans that resulted in no help.

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...

https://pastebin.com/

Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.

Starting in Safe mode (hold Shift after the bong) worked for me – Safe mode starts your machine without non-Apple plugins, extensions, and apparently launch agents (and probably a lot more). It actually takes longer than a regular boot/start.

I found a couple launchagents in Macintosh HD > Library > LaunchAgents and a few in Macintosh HD > Library > LaunchDaemons, but nothing in the System folder.

There will also be a preference option (with a different logo) in Apple Icon>System Preferences that you can just right-click and delete (I did this in regular start mode).

Finally, I found a preference pane file in Macintosh HD > Library > PreferencePanes... called something like PlayerLocationCheck.prefPane. this can be deleted in regular start mode as well.

FWIW, the shortcut to see these invisible folders is Command-Shift-. (period) ... then hit Command-Shift-. again to hide them

I would empty the trash while you're in Safe mode too, just to be sure.

What a hassle... this isn't supposed to happen on a Mac, especially through a web browser.

The suggestions above worked to remove Player Location Check but since then, when I try to send a message through a website (eg, CVS site or my bank secure messaging), I get a vague message that there is a problem and to try again later. I checked with the websites and they had no issues so seems I own this one...Any thoughts would be appreciated (note- I am technologically pretty ignorant).

First thing I’d try is downloading Firefox (a browser I trust) and see if that works.

I’m finding that Safari doesn’t work that well with more and more sites. That’s not necessarily Apple’s fault... their insistence on privacy (and disallowing cross-tracking) can break sites that are invasive (looking at you espn or anything Disney).

In addition, web designers/programmers are often lazy and program only for Chrome since it’s the primary browser on the web.

So give Firefox a try and see if it works. If you prefer using safari for the privacy (like I do), keep Firefox or even Chrome handy for certain tasks.

in any event, I don’t think your issue has anything to do with removing Player Location Check. It just may seem that way.

I did the above (thank you), but later noticed I have a Player Location Check icon in my System Preferences pane. I tried to remove it, and after entering my password to do so, I get a message that says: The operation couldn't be completed (install assistant error-200).

I'm wondering if this is because I deleted all the app-related stuff already.

How do I get rid of it?

Thanks for any guidance.

I would think a re-start should get rid of it? If you found and removed the Preference Pane from the Macintosh HD > Library > PreferencePanes folder then it shouldn't be there after a restart/reboot

Many thanks.

Got an update notification to go to Catalina this morning... Not sure I want to! But it looks like the 32-bit vs 64-bit is only issue to be aware of. We shall see!

Thanks for the instructions.

I've been a Mac user since the original Mac... I have a PICT file dating to November 10, 1984.

I mention this only to say that I think you should lag on system updates. Don't do it if everything is working okay. Only do it when necessary.

I am not sure I understand your reply. Is EtreCheck the same thing as Player Location Check that I now see at the top of my screen? This seems to have appeared after the install of Catalina.

Sorry, no, etrecheck is an app that can help us find hidden goings on or files.

Find Any File...

http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php

Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.