iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner - How to remove

iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner is a Mac optimizer that is flagged by some anti-malware vendors as malicious. It doesn’t seem dangerous, however, there aren’t any good reasons to use it. iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner is a paid app whose features are redundant to what macOS users already have available for free.

About iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program.
Problems with iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner	No fully functional free trial, redundant features, slightly misleading website.
Alternatives	Use the tools that are included in macOS for free, use apps that are more trustworthy and reputable.
How to remove iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner	Cancel the subscription, remove unwanted apps, if needed, find and remove malware with an anti-malware tool (Combo Cleaner, Malwarebytes, others).

Problems with Umate Mac Cleaner

Despite having an established company behind it, iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner is flagged by a few anti-malware applications as a malicious program – Virustotal.com. In addition, the deceptor watchdog AppEsteem has a few issues with the app’s behavior. At this moment, there are good reasons to avoid iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner.

Mac optimizer

iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner is a Mac optimizer. It offers to delete a bunch of files. It says that this will improve your privacy and the speed and responsiveness of your computer.

iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner offers these features:

• Find unwanted, large, duplicate files.
• Delete browsing data (caches, saved form data, cookies, etc.) and other data, like email attachments.
• Uninstall apps and extensions.
• Disable Login Items.
• End intensive processes.

Could iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner be useful and effective? Maybe. Removing login items will let your Mac boot faster.

But the features that iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner offers are already available to Mac users for free. Support.apple.com has information about how to troubleshoot a slow Mac, use Activity Monitor to end processes, and a lot of other resources. You do not need iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner or any other app to be able to uninstall apps, add and remove Login Items, delete browsing data, etc.

Unreliable website

iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner can be downloaded from the imyfone.com site. It’s a nice website, however, there are a few issues.

To appear more trustworthy, imyfone.com shows little security seals from Norton, McAfee, and GeoTrust. Usually, you’d click these seals and see a little pop-up from the company providing the security guarantee. But imyfone.com doesn’t allow the seals to be clicked. And though Norton and Geotrust seem to say that imyfone.com is safe, McAfee has no such guarantee.

It doesn’t matter anyway. Security seals only show that your data is secure (for example, if you send over your credit card number, it will be encrypted), which does not prove that the site isn’t malicious.

Another annoying thing about iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner’s site is unverifiable reviews. There’s a row of images of outlet names: Macworld, MacGeneration, Cult of Mac, etc. What do they mean? Who knows! But I assume they’re meant to imply that iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner has been positively reviewed by those sites.

However, I’ve had a hard time confirming that. Some of these outlets have posts about iMyFone’s other products, such as the iPhone backup tool. But I could not find anything about iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner.

These small issues really don’t inspire trust in iMyFone’s products.

How to remove iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner

You can remove iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner and other unwanted apps manually – Support.apple.com. Go to Finder, Applications and drag unwanted apps to Trash.

In addition, you can use an anti-malware app, such as Combo Cleaner or Malwarebytes, to scan your Mac. This can be helpful in cases where more unwanted apps are lurking on your Mac or if you can’t uninstall iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner manually.

If you remove iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner, then remember to cancel your subscription.

You can remove iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner and manage your Mac’s performance yourself. It’ll be simpler that way. Likely, your Mac only needs optimizations once in a while.

Indeed, installing optimizers like iMyFone Umate Mac Cleaner, AweCleaner, Osx Uninstaller, and others is counterproductive – these apps are usually more concerned with appearing to be useful at all times than they are with helping you. As a result, they want to run all the time, show pop-ups, and that causes the computer to slow down.

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