With the advent of the “Delete Immediately” feature in OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later carried to macOS Big Sur 11 and Catalina 10.15, you can now bypass Trash and delete the selected files permanently from the storage drive.
Then you would right-click the Trash from the Dock and choose the “ Empty Trash” option to delete the contained files permanently. However, this perception is entirely wrong, as the “Delete Immediately” option only allows a user to delete selected files instantly, i.e., without sending them to Trash.Įarlier, you would select the required files then either drag and drop them into the Trash icon present on the Dock to delete them or press Command + Delete keys to move them to Trash. During the early days of “Delete Immediately” functionality, many Mac users thought it to be the replacement of “Secure Empty Trash”.
