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How to uninstall apps in Android

We’ve seen the reports: Millennials are lacking in loyalty toward apps. When you look at the average person’s app habits, it is easy to see why. There are around 3 million apps available in the Google Play store — including a swath of top-tier games — and not every app is going to be perfect for you. Your device’s memory is limited, so it’s time to purge the apps you never use. How do you cleanse your device of unplayed games and apps, though? Have no fear! We heard your terrible plight, and we put together this simple guide on how to uninstall apps in Android.

Before we begin, if you do not intend to reinstall the app you are removing, take the time to hit the Clear Data option for any app you are uninstalling. You can usually find this button in the Storage section near the Uninstall button in each of our guides. This ensures that as little data from the app as possible will be left on your device after you uninstall it. If you are just removing an app temporarily — for instance, to make space for an operating system update — feel free to leave the data there so it will still be available when you put the app back onto your device later.

Finally, some apps are not able to be removed. This is usually the case with apps crucial to your device’s daily running, or — in more insidious cases — apps that have been added by your carrier or phone manufacturer. Thankfully, even though you cannot remove these apps without rooting your phone, you can usually disable them, and we added small notes to each of our guides to highlight how you can do this.

Be warned — be sure you know what you are disabling. While it is difficult to brick a phone by disabling apps, it never hurts to be sure you are turning off something you really don’t need. If you need a more in-depth guide to purging your phone of these apps, then check out our guide on removing bloatware.

How to uninstall apps in stock Android

Stock Android is the base level of Android, as created by Google. Though this level of Android is found primarily on Google’s Pixel and Nexus devices, you will find that many phone manufacturers put a light modification on top of stock on their devices (usually referred to as “skins”). Since stock Android is the underlying skeleton of most Android phones out there, you usually only need to look further than this entry if your phone has a more heavily modified Android skin, like Samsung’s Experience (most recently re-dubbed One UI).

Uninstalling apps from stock Android is simple:

1. Select the Settings app from your app drawer or home screen.
2. Tap Apps and Notifications, then hit App Info.
3. Scroll down the list until you find the app you want to remove and tap it.
4. Select Uninstall.

If you come across an app that cannot be removed, then simply follow the same instructions as above, just substituting Disable for Uninstall in the final step. That should ensure that the offending app — while not removed totally — cannot be activated or impact your day-to-day activity.

How to uninstall apps in Samsung Experience and One UI

Samsung’s modified Android skin has evolved a lot over the years. Previously known as TouchWiz, it was maligned as one of the worst Android skins in the world — to the point where Google almost stepped in to make it better. One UI is Samsung’s latest OS, and it, along with the older Samsung Experience, is much smoother and sleeker.

Surprisingly enough, removing apps on One UI or Samsung Experience is actually simpler than on stock Android. Even though you can still go to the Settings app, access the app list, and so on — Samsung has offered users an even faster shortcut to remove or disable undesired apps.

1. Find the app you wish to uninstall.
2. Long-press (tap and hold your finger) on the app, and wait for a pop-up menu to appear.
3. Tap Uninstall.
4. If you want to uninstall multiple apps on an S8 or newer, then you can tap Select from the same pop-up menu, select each app you want rid of, then tap Uninstall at the top left. This option isn’t available on older Samsung phones like the S7 Edge.

Note that several apps will not let you uninstall them, so instead, you should search for the option to disable them. It’s a quick and easy process; just click Disable instead of Uninstall after following the steps we presented above.

How to uninstall apps in Huawei’s EMUI

Huawei’s EMUI is a different Android version that is heavily altered from the stock Android formula, working more like iOS than Android in many regards. Nevertheless, you can follow the same instructions when uninstalling EMUI as you would when removing any other application from an Android device.

1. Find the app you want to uninstall on your home page or in your app drawer.
2. Long-press (tap and hold your finger) on the app until your phone vibrates and a pop-up menu appears.
3. Tap Uninstall.

You might not have the ability to uninstall specific apps that are necessary for your phone’s operating system. You can’t uninstall others because of particular contracts with Huawei. However, you can usually disable those apps if you tap Disable instead of Uninstall when the menu we mentioned earlier pops up on your screen.

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How to Uninstall Bloatware and System Apps without Root in Android

When you buy a new Android phone, chances are it comes with plenty of preinstalled bloatware. While you can uninstall those third-party bloatware apps, some of the apps are installed as system apps and cannot be removed. This is especially true for the whole suite of Google apps. If you are not a fan of Google Play Music or Google Duo, sorry, you can’t remove them from your phone. To get rid of system apps, the easiest way is to root your phone. The bad thing is, it is not easy to root your phone, and you will void your phone warranty by doing so.

Here are a few ways to uninstall bloatware/system apps without root in Android.

Also read: How to Free Up Storage Space on Android

Uninstall/Disable the bloatware

For the third party bloatware, most of them can be easily uninstalled.

1. On your Android phone, go to “Settings -> Apps & notifications.”

2. Tap on “See all apps” and find the app you want to uninstall and tap on it.

3. If there is an “Uninstall” button, tap to uninstall the app.

4. If you see a “Disable” button instead of an Uninstall button, this means the apps cannot be uninstalled but can be disabled.

“Disabled” means the app becomes dormant, won’t show up in your application list, and won’t be recognized as an installed app.

Tap on the Disable button to disable the app.

For Xiaomi phones, first install the “Hidden Settings for MIUI” app.

1. Open “Hidden Settings for MIUI.”

2. Go to “Manage applications” and find the application you want to disable.

3. Tap on the “Disable” button.

Uninstall system apps on Android using adb

Adb is a powerful tool to debug your phone. It also comes with commands to manage app packages (in this case, uninstall packages).

1. To use adb, you need to install adb on your desktop computer.

For Linux, you can just install “android-tools” from your Software Center or package manager.

For Windows, follow the instructions here to install adb.

2. Next, you need to enable “Developer Options” on your phone. Once enabled, go into the Developer Options, scroll down the list and enable “USB debugging.”

3. Connect your phone to the desktop via USB cable. When prompted, change the “charge only” mode to “file transfer (MTP)” mode.

4. In Windows, navigate to the adb directory and launch the command prompt in that folder. For Linux, just open the Terminal.

Type the following command to start adb and verify that the phone is connected.

If you see an entry listed under the “List of devices” section, then your device is connected.

5. Start the adb shell.

6. List all the packages installed in the phone.

The list will be very long. You can use grep to narrow down the list. For example, to only show Google packages, use the command:

7. Find the name of the app you want to uninstall. The name is the entry after Package: . For example, the package name for the Google Contact app is com.google.android.contacts .

If you have trouble identifying the package name, simply go to Google Play Store on your browser and search for the app. Check the URL for the package name.

8. Type the following command to uninstall the app.

You should see the word “Success” if the uninstallation is successful.

The —user flag in the above command is important because it tells the system to uninstall the app for the current user only (and 0 is the default/main user of the phone). There is no way you can uninstall the app from all users unless you root the phone.

As a word of warning, uninstalling system apps has the potential to break the system, so only uninstall the apps that you are sure of. Apps like Gmail, Google Play Music, Google Play Movies, etc., are safe to uninstall but never remove Google Play Store or any of the files associated with it. If the phone becomes unstable after you uninstall a particular app, either reinstall it back from the Google Play Store or factory reset your phone.

Disable system apps using Debloater Tool

If you find the process of ADB commands a bit tricky and lengthy, then fortunately for you, there is a Debloater tool available that will ease up the process of disabling unwanted apps on your Android device.

Some features of this Debloater tool are it allows blocking or disabling apps on your Android device, allow unlocking all apps at once, import blocked listings, etc. It is a pretty straightforward tool: once your device is connected, it shows you a list of apps installed on your Android phone.

Do note that in order to remove the apps, you need to have root access on your Android phone. This tool does not uninstall system apps from your Android phone without root access. However, disabling apps also is efficient, as the disabled apps won’t run in the background and eat up your phone’s resources.

Here’s how you can use the Debloater tool:

1. First, make sure you have USB Debugging enabled on your Android device.

2. Download and install the Debloater tool on your Windows PC.

3. Connect your phone with the PC via a USB cable. Open the Debloater tool and wait for it to detect your device.

4. Once your device is detected, the “Device Connected” and “Sync” notification located at the bottom of the interface will turn green, indicating that the connection is successful.

5. To populate the list with the apps installed on your Android phone, click on the “Read Phone Packages” button just below the “Activity Status” menu.

6. Simply scroll through the list of apps and check the box next to the app that you wish to disable.

7. After the selection is done, hit the “Apply” button at the top. The tool will execute that task and show you a completion message.

Note: a word of caution. Please do not disable any system apps because it may harm your phone by bricking it. Always double-check before selecting any app.

Wrapping Up

Depending on your phone manufacturer, some phones come with only a few bloatware, and the system apps can be disabled easily while others are full of third-party apps that you cannot remove or disable at all. The instructions above will allow you to uninstall bloatware system apps from your Android phone without having to root your phone, unless you are considering rooting your phone.

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3 comments

My aim is to free up RAM – I’ve tried disabling Youtube and afterwards it still shows the same amount of Ram wasted on it. Is there a way of freeing up RAM from unwanted System apps ?

The phone of my mother is old doro liberto 820 mini and nothing works. I try all for root
I installed adb etc. adb recognize the phone but fastboot none. The recovery is minimalist and the recovery on the others sites isn’t of the doro liberto 820 mini’s recovery maybe the version not mini.

After I tried this method.
adb devices is ok
adb shell is ok
pm list packages grep google is ok
pm uninstall … not ok I have the result Error: Unknown option: -u

I don’t like Desactivate because that take always the place and the doro have no place in more is android 4.4 and I cannot move the app on my sdcard.

Do you have a solution ?

Yea, we want to uninstall the app, remove it completely- gone. This is just erasing the updates and disable the app making it inactive, this does NOT delete it. Either change the title or find a solution that matches the title. The app’s still there and taking up space as you can see in your screenshots.

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