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How to uninstall Redis on a Mac

Stop Redis, remove it with Homebrew, and clear the settings and saved data it leaves. Redis itself is tiny; check its data file before you delete it.

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How do I uninstall Redis on a Mac?

brew services stop redis
brew uninstall redis

Our Redis 8.6.3 from Homebrew was 2.9 MB, one of the smallest things Homebrew installs.

How do I stop the Redis server on a Mac?

brew services stop redis if Homebrew started it. If you started it by hand with redis-server, run redis-cli shutdown. Check nothing is left with lsof -i :6379.

What does Redis leave behind?

  • Settings: /opt/homebrew/etc/redis.conf (116 KB here).
  • Saved data: dump.rdb or an appendonly folder, in /opt/homebrew/var/db/redis or the folder Redis was started from. Ours was empty.

Other services on the same Mac: MySQL and MongoDB.

Common questions

How do I uninstall Redis on a Mac?

Run brew services stop redis, then brew uninstall redis, and remove /opt/homebrew/etc/redis.conf if you want its settings gone.

How do I stop the Redis server on Mac?

Run brew services stop redis, or redis-cli shutdown if you started it by hand.

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