These instructions are NOT applicable to Flash Player included with Google Chrome. Visit the Flash Player Help page for instructions on enabling (or disabling) Flash Player in various browsers.
If you use Windows, see Uninstall Flash Player | Windows.
If Flash Player is installed on your computer, the following box displays the version of Flash Player and your operating system. If Flash Player is not installed, an error message appears.
Adobe has discovered the compatibility issues listed below with running Photoshop CC 2015 with Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan). We recommend that customers do their own testing on a non-production partition to ensure that new operating systems work with their current hardware and drivers. Safari opens the Adobe Flash Player page on the Adobe website. Follow the instructions on the Adobe website to download and install the latest version of the plug-in. If you need to use an older version of Flash Player, you can use Internet plug-in management in Safari to run the plug-in in unsafe mode for websites that you trust.
If your Flash Player installation was not successful, use the following solution to reinstall.
- Click the Apple icon and choose About This Mac.The Mac OS version appears in the About This Mac dialog.
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2. Run the uninstaller applicable to your Mac OS version
- How to update Flash Player 'manually' with Mac OS X.
- Adobe and Apple have worked closely together to test Adobe Creative Cloud applications for reliability, performance, and user experience when installed on Intel-based systems running Mac OS X Yosemite (version 10.10). The latest versions of all Adobe CC products are compatible.
- Run the uninstaller on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, including macOS
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Note:
Beginning with Flash Player 11.5, uninstalling the Flash Player resets the AutoUpdateDisable and SilentAutoUpdateEnable settings in mms.cfg to their default values:
- AutoUpdateDisable=0
- SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0
If you are running the Flash Player uninstaller as part of your deployment process, redeploy any custom changes to either AutoUpdateDisable or SilentAutoUpdateEnable.
Run the uninstaller on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, including macOS
- Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
- Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
- Mac OS X, version 10.4 and 10.5: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
The uninstaller is downloaded to the Downloads folder of your browser by default. - In Safari, choose Window > Downloads.If you are using Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), click the Downloads icon displayed on the browser.
- To open the uninstaller, double-click it in the Downloads window.Note: If the Flash Player installer window does not appear, choose Go > Desktop in the Finder. Scroll down to the Devices section and click Uninstall Flash Player.
- To run the uninstaller, double-click the Uninstaller icon in the window. If you see a message asking if you want to open the uninstaller file, click Open.
- Bookmark or print this page so that you can use the rest of these instructions after you close your browser.
- To close all browsers, either click the browser name in the Uninstaller dialog, or close each browser manually and then click Retry.Note: Do not click Quit in the Uninstaller window. It stops the uninstallation process.
- After you close the browsers, the uninstaller continues automatically until the uninstallation is complete. When you see the message notifying you that the uninstallation succeeded, click Done.
- Delete the following directories:
- <home directory>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player
- <home directory>/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player
- Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
- Mac OS X, version 10.3 and earlier: uninstall_flash_player_osx_10.2.dmg (1.3 MB) (updated 05/27/08)
- Choose Window > Downloads to view the downloaded uninstaller.
- Save the uninstaller file in a convenient location.
- To open the uninstaller, double-click it in the Downloads window.
- To run the uninstaller, double-click the Uninstaller icon in the window. If requested, enter your computer user name and password and click OK.
- Bookmark or print this page so that you can use the rest of these instructions after you close your browser. Close all browsers and other applications that use Flash Player, including instant messaging applications, SWF files, and projectors (EXE files that play SWF files). Otherwise, the uninstaller cannot finish (even though it appears to finish).Once the uninstaller finishes, the window closes automatically.
You can verify that uninstallation is complete by following these steps:
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- Open your browser and check the status of Flash Player.
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