# Removing Unsupported tags?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396 "2025-12-22T08:54:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/1 "2025-12-22T08:54:42Z")
Hi,
I was researching this and found this page: [Utils β Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/utils/)
> This function removes unsupported fields, i.e., metadata entries present in the files that have no visual representation in Mp3tag. The fields are permanently removed.
But, I cannot seem to find such thing in Mac version?
In fact, I cannot even find such things as Utils?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/2 "2025-12-22T09:09:46Z")
Itβs currently not yet available in the Mac version. You can simply remove the Tags there and undo the change to have only supported tags written back to the file.
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/3 "2025-12-22T09:12:03Z")
By removing you mean following flow?:
1. Remove everything: Id3v1, Id3v2, APEv2
2. Undo removal
Seems quite risky, when something unexpected happens during this process, you may end up loosing all tags. π€
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/4 "2025-12-22T09:22:46Z")
You decide, and quite frankly, this applies to other operations as well.
A backup reduces the risk quite significantly.
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/5 "2025-12-22T09:26:12Z")
Yes, separate backup is a must (backing up around 2TB is a challenge though), but is that flow itself correct?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/6 "2025-12-22T09:55:38Z")
Yes, undo would write back only the metadata that was previously displayed in Mp3tag based on **Settings β Tag Types**.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2026, 9:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unsupported-tags/70396/7 "2026-01-21T09:56:07Z")
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