Will deleting unused Mac and nonMac applications on my iMac speed it up?

I tried searching the community for answers to this and I keep getting advice not to add third-party cleaning apps and suggestion that I free up storage space. I'm not asking about either. I promise I won't add a third party clean up app and I have plenty of storage space. I'm just asking that if I eliminate never-used apps will this by itself speed up my iMac? I have seen online suggestions that this is so. But I'd rather hear it from the Apple community before I bother doing it.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Aug 31, 2023 3:54 PM

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MartinR

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Posted on Aug 31, 2023 4:14 PM

Removing unused apps will not speed up your Mac.

And while they do take up disk space, you should not remove apps willy-nilly, especially Mac apps installed along with macOS (Safari & QuickTime being prime examples of apps you should never remove even if you don't use them.)

If it's an app you installed yourself and you want to remove it, ok, but all you will do is free up a bit of disk space.

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