I uninstalled a mouse driver. It was twelve things.

A while ago, in a fit of frustration, I posted a gist documenting how to completely remove Logitech Options+ from a Mac. I didn’t promote it. I didn’t link it anywhere. I wrote it, closed the tab, and moved on with my life.

People keep finding it.

That’s the thing about frustration posts: if strangers keep arriving at yours through search, it means they typed the same angry query you did. “Completely uninstall Logitech Options+” is apparently a query with a constituency. So this is the proper, maintained version of that gist — same cleanup, with a couple of bugs fixed and an actual explanation of why the cleanup needs to exist at all.

The naive mental model

If you’d asked me what installing a mouse driver does, I’d have said:

It puts an app in /Applications that talks to the mouse and remaps the buttons. Maybe a preference file. Drag it to the Trash when you’re done.

Logitech Options+ is not that. For what should be a button-remapping tool for an MX Master, it drops files across six-plus system directories, installs background daemons — one of them running as root — phones home via Sentry crash reporting, and bundles an AI Prompt Builder. None of which you asked for when you plugged in a mouse.

What Logitech quietly installs

Here’s what’s actually on your Mac after a “simple” Options+ install:

The red flags

1. A root-level daemon (LaunchDaemons) for an auto-updater — this runs as root, not as your user
2. Sentry crash reporting with multiple databases — telemetry you never opted into
3. An AI Prompt Builder — a generative-AI feature shipped inside a mouse driver
4. A Zoom bridge — silently integrating with Zoom even if you don’t use Logitech webcams
5. A RightSight webcam agent — installed even for mouse-only setups
6. Three naming conventions (com.logi.*, com.logitech.*, com.Logitech.*) that make manual cleanup harder than it should be

Every one of these is a small, individually defensible product decision. Together they mean a peripheral vendor has a persistent, root-privileged, auto-updating, telemetry-emitting footprint on your machine — to remap two buttons.

Can’t uninstall Logitech Options+? You’re in the right place

A lot of people land here after Logitech’s own uninstaller has already failed them — the app won’t launch so its uninstall option is unreachable, or the uninstaller runs and leaves half the table above behind (re-run the discovery command in Step 1 after any “successful” official uninstall and see for yourself). The method below doesn’t depend on Logitech’s tooling at all: it removes files and unloads services directly, so it works whether the app is healthy, broken, or already half-removed.

Step 1: See what’s on your system

Run these to see exactly what Logitech has installed on your machine before deleting anything:

Find all Logitech files

find /Applications ~/Library /Library -maxdepth 3 
  -iname "*logi*" 2>/dev/null 
  | grep -iv "login|loginwindow|LoginItems|LoginUser|securelogin|keychain|Logic$|Logic Pro"

The grep -iv filters out macOS system files that contain “login”, and Apple’s Logic Pro — those are unrelated. Don’t skip it.

Check for running processes

ps aux | grep -i logi | grep -v grep

Check for launch agents and daemons

launchctl list | grep -i logi

Check what’s set to auto-start

ls /Library/LaunchAgents/*logi* /Library/LaunchDaemons/*logi* ~/Library/LaunchAgents/*logi* 2>/dev/null

Check for system extensions

systemextensionsctl list

Options+ registers a system extension, com.logi.options.hidfilter (team ID QED4VVPZWA). If it shows up here as activated, see the system-extension section in Step 2 — it needs slightly different handling than everything else.

Step 2: Completely uninstall Logitech Options+

Run each section in order. Some commands require sudo.

Kill running processes

killall logioptionsplus 2>/dev/null
killall LogiPluginService 2>/dev/null

Remove applications

sudo rm -rf /Applications/logioptionsplus.app
sudo rm -rf /Applications/Utilities/LogiPluginService.app
sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Utilities/Logi Options+ Driver Installer.bundle"

Remove launch agents and daemons (stops auto-start)

# Unload first, then delete
sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logi.optionsplus.updater.plist 2>/dev/null
launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logi.optionsplus.plist 2>/dev/null
launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logitech.LogiRightSight.Agent.plist 2>/dev/null

sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logi.optionsplus.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logitech.LogiRightSight.Agent.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logi.optionsplus.updater.plist

Remove application support directories

rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Logitech
rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/LogiOptionsPlus
rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Logi
rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/com.logitech.logiaipromptbuilder
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application Support/Logi
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized

Remove all preference files

rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logi.optionsplus.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logi.optionsplus.driverhost.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logi.pluginservice.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logi.lps.settings.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logi.cp-dev-mgr.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.Logi-Options.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.Logitech.Updater.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.manager.daemon.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.manager.devinfo.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.manager.setting.0006b023.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.manager.setting.ffff.plist
rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.logiaipromptbuilder.plist

Remove caches, logs, and telemetry

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.logi.optionsplus.installer
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/SentryCrash/"Logi AI Prompt Builder"
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/Logitech
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/LogiZoomBridge
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/xlog_logitech
rm -rf ~/Library/HTTPStorages/LogiPluginServiceNative

(The original gist had a bug on the SentryCrash line — ~ doesn’t expand inside quotes, so that directory was never actually deleted. Fixed here. If you ran the gist version, run that one line again.)

Remove the system extension

This one deserves its own explanation, because I got it wrong the first time. Two readers of the original gist (egigoka, who flagged the extension, and canoben, who tested on macOS 26) straightened me out.

Options+ registers com.logi.options.hidfilter as a system extension. The direct removal command exists — but systemextensionsctl uninstall refuses to run while System Integrity Protection is enabled, and Apple’s “this limitation will be removed in the near future” error message has been promising that since 2020.

You almost never need it. When you delete the host app (done above), macOS deactivates its system extensions on its own. So:

# After deleting the apps in the steps above:
sudo reboot
# Then verify:
systemextensionsctl list

If com.logi.options.hidfilter is gone (or the list is empty), you’re done — no SIP involved.

Only if it survives the reboot, fall back to the direct route: boot into Recovery (hold the power button on Apple silicon), open Terminal, run csrutil disable, reboot, then:

systemextensionsctl uninstall QED4VVPZWA com.logi.options.hidfilter

Then go straight back to Recovery and csrutil enable. Don’t leave SIP off.

The whole thing as one script (silent uninstall)

If you’d rather not paste ten blocks — or you’re an IT admin who needs a silent uninstall for MDM deployment — here’s everything above as a single idempotent script. Safe to run repeatedly; every step tolerates the files already being gone.

#!/bin/bash
# Complete Logitech Options+ removal — macOS
# Run as the logged-in user; it sudos for the system-level parts.

# Kill running processes
killall logioptionsplus LogiPluginService 2>/dev/null

# Unload launch agents and daemons
sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logi.optionsplus.updater.plist 2>/dev/null
launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logi.optionsplus.plist 2>/dev/null
launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u) /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logitech.LogiRightSight.Agent.plist 2>/dev/null

# System-level files (root)
sudo rm -rf 
  /Applications/logioptionsplus.app 
  /Applications/Utilities/LogiPluginService.app 
  "/Applications/Utilities/Logi Options+ Driver Installer.bundle" 
  /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logi.optionsplus.plist 
  /Library/LaunchAgents/com.logitech.LogiRightSight.Agent.plist 
  /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.logi.optionsplus.updater.plist 
  "/Library/Application Support/Logi" 
  "/Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized"

# User-level files
rm -rf 
  "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Logitech" 
  "$HOME/Library/Application Support/LogiOptionsPlus" 
  "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Logi" 
  "$HOME/Library/Application Support/com.logitech.logiaipromptbuilder" 
  "$HOME/Library/Caches/com.logi.optionsplus.installer" 
  "$HOME/Library/Caches/SentryCrash/Logi AI Prompt Builder" 
  "$HOME/Library/Logs/Logitech" 
  "$HOME/Library/Logs/LogiZoomBridge" 
  "$HOME/Library/Logs/xlog_logitech" 
  "$HOME/Library/HTTPStorages/LogiPluginServiceNative"
rm -f "$HOME"/Library/Preferences/com.logi.*.plist 
      "$HOME"/Library/Preferences/com.logitech.*.plist

echo "Done. Reboot so macOS deactivates the system extension, then verify:"
echo "  systemextensionsctl list"

MDM note: the script has a root half and a per-user half. If your MDM runs scripts as root, the sudo lines just work, but the $HOME block cleans only root’s home — loop it over /Users/* (or run that block in the user context) to clean actual user accounts. And the reboot at the end isn’t optional if you want the system extension gone.

Step 3: Verify complete removal

Re-run the discovery command — it should return no results:

find /Applications ~/Library /Library -maxdepth 3 
  -iname "*logi*" 2>/dev/null 
  | grep -iv "login|loginwindow|LoginItems|LoginUser|securelogin|keychain|Logic$|Logic Pro"

Check no processes are running:

ps aux | grep -i logi | grep -v grep

Check no launch agents remain:

launchctl list | grep -i logi

Check the system extension is gone (after a reboot):

systemextensionsctl list

All of these should come back empty. Your mouse keeps working as a standard Bluetooth/USB device — you just lose Logitech’s custom button mappings.

Using a Logitech mouse without Logitech Options

• BetterMouse — lightweight, native macOS app for button remapping, scroll customization, and gesture support. No telemetry, no AI prompt builders, no Zoom bridges. This is what I use now.
• OpenLogi — open-source, native, local-first alternative to Options+ written in Rust. Early but promising, and philosophically the opposite of everything in the table above.
• macOS built-in — System Settings → Mouse covers basic tracking speed and button configuration, free.

The lesson

The naive mental model — “a driver is an app that talks to the hardware” — died somewhere in the last decade. Peripheral software is now a distribution channel: for telemetry, for upsells, for whatever feature the company’s roadmap needed a home for. The AI Prompt Builder isn’t there because mouse owners asked for it; it’s there because you already installed the software and your machine is where the feature ships.

The fix isn’t outrage, it’s inventory. find, launchctl list, ps aux — twenty seconds of looking tells you what any vendor actually left on your machine. Most people never look, which is precisely what vendors count on.

Tested on macOS Sequoia 15.x with Logitech Options+ and an MX Master 3. Originally posted as a gist; this page is the maintained version. If a Logitech update adds or moves paths, the discovery commands in Step 1 will still find them.