Uninstall and delete everything

Export a copy of your data

In Homeling: Settings → Your Data → Export Everything…

Export Everything… saves all of it (chats, people, memories, settings and files) to a folder you choose. Add a passphrase to encrypt the export; without one it's a plain ZIP file anyone with the file can open.

Delete everything

In Homeling: Settings → Your Data → Delete Everything…

Delete Everything… removes everything Homeling keeps on your Mac and starts over as on a new Mac: your chats, people, memories, settings and files, and Homeling's items in your Keychain. It can't be undone, so export first if you want a copy.

• “Keep downloaded AI models” keeps the models (they aren't your data, and they're large to download again).
• “Also delete my backups in iCloud Drive and forget their key” removes your backups too.
• Even if you keep your backups, the backup key is one of the Keychain items that goes, so those backups can no longer be opened.

Uninstall Homeling

1. Turn off the background service: Settings → General → Keep working when the window is closed → Turn off.
2. Delete your data, if you want it gone: Delete Everything… above.
3. Quit Homeling (its menu bar icon → Quit Homeling), and drag Homeling from Applications to the Trash. The Mail extension goes with it.

What stays if you just drag it to the Trash

• Homeling's folder, with your data and its models: ~/Library/Application Support/Homebody.
• Its cache: ~/Library/Caches/Homebody.
• The Mail extension's folder in ~/Library/Group Containers (its name ends in ai.homeling.mac).
• Homeling's items in your Keychain, such as “Homeling backup key”.
• Your backups, in iCloud Drive → Homeling Backup.

Delete these to remove every trace. Delete Everything… removes the first, second and fourth for you.

Your iPhone and the waitlist

On your iPhone, Mac → Forget this Mac, then delete the app. To take your email address off the waitlist, write to [email protected].