# Uninstall HARD

How to remove HARD for Mac, the browser extension and HARD for iPhone, step by step, and everything they keep, including your HARD codes.

Source: https://hard.fyi/docs/uninstall/

## HARD for Mac

1. In HARD, open **Firewall and DNS**. Choose **Turn off** for the firewall, and **Turn off** for Secure DNS.
2. Quit HARD from the menu bar.
3. Move HARD from Applications to the Bin. If macOS asks to remove HARD’s network extension, allow it.
4. To remove what HARD learned about your Mac, delete `~/Library/Application Support/HARD/`.
5. To remove the browser link, delete `fyi.hard.mac.json` from the `NativeMessagingHosts` folder in each browser’s folder under `~/Library/Application Support/`.

HARD codes on the Mac are kept in your login keychain. Remove a pair in HARD before uninstalling, or delete it in Keychain Access.

## The extension

Open `chrome://extensions` (or `brave://extensions`) and choose **Remove** on HARD. Its settings, its log and its password hashes go with it.

## HARD for iPhone

In Settings, set **Apps → Messages → Unknown and Spam → SMS Filtering** back to none, turn HARD off in **Apps → Phone → Call Blocking & Identification**, then delete the app. To be sure no HARD code is left on the phone, remove your pairs in the app first.

Uninstalling doesn’t delete your HARD account. To do that, [delete your account](/docs/account/delete/) first.