The Apple TV app is one of the best applications for watching movies and TV shows on your Mac. However, storing TV shows and movies can take up a lot of storage space on your Mac.
Fortunately, you can easily uninstall the movies and TV shows you've already watched and save a ton of storage space on your Mac.
What Is the Apple TV App?
Every Mac comes with the Apple TV app, originally part of iTunes, but became a separate application in macOS Catalina.
The app lets you watch TV shows and movies, which you can rent or purchase from Apple. You can also watch Apple Originals with an Apple TV+ subscription and connect other streaming services like AMC+ to the app to watch content directly.
Why Should You Remove Apple TV Movies and Shows?
There are multiple reasons to have some free storage on your Mac. Free storage is essential since you never know when you may need to install a vital program or download an important document.
Once you finish watching the movie or TV show, there isn't any reason to keep them locally on your hard drive aside from wanting to watch them offline. You can still stream movies and TV shows if you're planning to watch them again.
How to Remove Apple TV Shows and Movies
There are two ways to remove Apple TV shows and movies from your Mac. You can remove them through the Apple TV app or the Storage tab in About This Mac. To remove a movie or TV show in the app itself, follow these instructions:
- Open the Apple TV app and select either Movies or TV Shows under the Library sidebar.
- Click the three dots in the bottom-right corner of the TV show or movie.
- Choose Remove Download.
The show or movie will uninstall from your Mac. A quicker solution would be to remove the shows or movies through About This Mac. To do this, here's what you need to do:
- Click on the Apple Logo in the menu bar and choose About This Mac from the dropdown.
- Go to the Storage tab and then click on Manage.
- Now, click on TV from the left pane and select the TV show or movie you want to remove.
- Click on Delete at the bottom-right corner, and when prompted, choose Delete again.
Unlike the Apple TV app, you can press and hold the Command key and click on multiple shows and movies to save time with the deletion. And if you don't want to remove some of your favorite movies from your Mac, you can save some storage space by removing the GarageBand Sound Library.
Enjoy More Free Storage on Your Mac
Uninstalling Apple TV shows and movies is a great way to free up some space on your Mac. Both methods will effectively remove the content you've watched already, but if you want to save time, do it from your Mac's storage settings.
And if deleting your Apple TV content wasn't enough to save enough storage space, you may also want to check to see if some other applications or files are depleting your Mac's storage drive.