How to remove the iPhone Configuration Web Utility from your mac
If like me, you installed Apple’s new iPhone Configuration Web Utility for Mac when it was released, which happens to be a ruby on rails app, then you may have found out how hard it is to get rid of.
It’s especially annoying if you are a rails developer since it launches on port 3000 when your mac starts up, meaning you would have to specify a different port every time you want to start your server, very annoying.
So after a bit of googling, I have collected the commands you need to run in the terminal to remove them, they are listed below (you need to be an admin user to run them).
First stop it running:
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.iPhoneConfigService.plist
Then stop it starting up:
sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.iPhoneConfigService.plist
Remove the files:
sudo rm -rf /private/var/db/iPhoneConfigurationWebUtility/
sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/iPhoneConfigurationWebUtility/
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/iPhoneConfigService/
And finally remove the user
sudo dscl . delete /groups/_iphoneconfigwebutil
sudo dscl . delete /users/_iphoneconfigwebutil
Thanks a lot!
Henrik N on July 31, 2008 2:16 pm
Thanks.
Ridvan on August 6, 2008 12:46 pm
Thanks!
aManCalledSun on August 8, 2008 9:42 pm
Thanks a lot, great tip!
Hattori Hanzo on August 11, 2008 7:08 pm
Thanks a lot! Really hated that ruby thing running on my Mac all the time!
Oli on August 12, 2008 8:01 am
Thanks so much. I installed the web version instead of the desktop app and I didn’t want that web service running on my laptop.
Todd on August 19, 2008 4:16 pm
Big thanks Andrew!
c.urdaneta on August 20, 2008 10:28 pm
thank you a lot!! (apple should have added this to the documents)
Petr on August 27, 2008 3:00 pm
You rock.
Rubin110 on September 12, 2008 12:12 pm
Thanks, this worked fine, very handy.
Rob on October 5, 2008 8:04 pm
Thanks, worked ok, very handy!
/ Petr+1 agreed, Apple should have this documented, or added an uninstall option/
Rob on October 5, 2008 8:08 pm