Once you’ve identified the application or websites that keep demanding Java, you can use the following instructions to rid your Mac of Java for good. You can find instructions here how to install Java on El Capitan & Sierra or you can simply uninstall the application that keeps prompting you to use Java if you don’t need it anymore. If you’ve got here because you keep getting a Java SDK error message in El Capitan or macos Sierra, there is probably an application installed on your Mac that requires Java or a website or game (such as Minecraft) that you’re trying to access that requires it. The instructions provided here show how to disable Java from El Capitan OS X 10.11, macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra but it works for all versions of OS X including OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks and OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The truth is, there’s actually no way to fully remove Java from Mac but you can easily completely disable it. Java is one of the most confusing and frustrating add-ons for Mac and here we show you the easiest way to uninstall Java from El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra.
