Let’s establish first that there are a few things you can do that feel like deleting your Facebook account that are, in fact, not that. Deleting the app from your phone? Cathartic, maybe, but ...

NOTE: In macOS Monterey and later, Other storage was renamed System Data. Here’s how to delete System Data on a Mac. Storage space on your Mac is precious, especially if you have a 128GB or 256GB SSD.

If you’re like me, you’ve created hundreds of accounts online over the years. Time goes by, and eventually, you forget about a lot of them, but the accounts are still there, waiting for you patiently ...

Having problems with Grok or just ready to move on to other social media? You can deactivate or delete your X (formerly known as Twitter) account in just a few steps. With more than a decade of ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

When it comes to quickly taking care of daily tasks, the command line can be both powerful and dangerous. Take the commands in this article as an example: the rm command allows you to remove (or ...

But truly deleting your personal genetic information from the DNA testing company is easier said than done. This story was originally published in October 2024. In March 2025, 23andMe filed for ...

Apple's Time Machine is an essential file backup tool for macOS, but it too has a backup that works off your Mac's primary drive. Here's how Time Machine's local snapshots work, and how to get rid of ...

Time is money and chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini have become valuable tools. They can write code, summarize long emails, and even find patterns in large volumes of data. However, as ...