Manage auto start apps and services on macOS

There are two ways apps and services may start automatically on macOS:

• Apps in the user's login items list.
• Services and daemons in the launchd system.

Manage Login Items

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on Users & Groups.
3. Click on Login Items.
4. Select the app that you want to remove from auto start.
5. Click on the minus button (-) to remove the app from the list.

Manage launchd

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type the following command:

To Find What Services are Running at Startup

launchctl list

Remove Service from launchd

launchctl remove "<app_name>"

To Find What Apps are Set to Run at Startup

ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents