How To Get Rid Of Preinstalled Android Apps

James Davis

Primary Things You Must Know
How to Delete Preinstalled Apps on Android (Root)
How to Delete Preinstalled Apps on Android (No Root)
How to Disable Preinstalled Apps

Primary Things You Must Know

Often in life, what we get is not what we want. This is especially true with all the preinstalled apps on your phone.

It's quite natural for your phone to come with a few applications that have already been installed and are ready to be run on your device after logging in. But what if one or a few of them are not to your liking?

Every phone has its memory limit. Hence, it's important to stick with applications that you really want to keep and remove the ones that have been occupying that space, especially if they're ones you do not desire to have in your phone.

Here are a few easy steps to show you how to delete apps on Android that came with the phone.

How to Delete Preinstalled Apps on Android (Root)

Before going into the steps that describe how to uninstall preinstalled apps on Android, here's some information you should probably be aware of.

What are Preinstalled Apps?

As mentioned above, preinstalled apps are applications that are already present on your phone when you purchase it. They are referred to as bloatware apps when they are present on phones with the Android operating system and are also called default apps, factory apps, preloaded apps, stock apps, and built-in apps.

Root Android First Before You Start

Rooting is a method very akin to jailbreaking through which you can attain superuser permissions on any Android system. Other than letting you delete preinstalled apps, it can also help you gain advantageous ways to operate and access several measures on your phone like accessing blocked features and customizing the OS to suit your needs.

Another advantageous feature of this method is that it can be used to uninstall all preinstalled apps, including the Samsung Apps which are usually not available for the uninstallation process.

To root Android, you must find a proper rooting application. Dr.Fone - Root is a good option to meet our purpose. It is a free, secure and safe application offered for all phones to promote a simple and hassle-free rooting process.

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How to uninstall preinstalled apps using Dr.Fone - Root

Here's the detailed guide to show you how to remove preinstalled apps from android in the easiest way possible.

1. Connect your Android Device to the Computer. Connect your phone to the computer in which you have downloaded the software. Open the programme and select 'Root'.

You can connect the phone through USB cable to the PC. Upon doing so, if your phone has an Android OS above the 4.2.2 version, a pop-up message will occur to confirm the USB debugging process. Click 'OK'. After this, your phone will be recognized.

2. Begin the rooting process.

After the software has recognized your phone, click the option 'Start' to begin the rooting process.

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The programme will recognize your device and detect the correct way to root your phone based on it's model.

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3. After detection, the software will ask you to confirm beginning the rooting process. Select the option titled 'Root Now' to begin.

select to allow rooting

4. One final time, you will be asked to confirm beginning the process. Press 'Confirm' to continue. In a few minutes, the rooting process will be completed and this will be displayed on screen.

android rooted to delete preinstalled apps

How to delete preinstalled apps

There are several applications out there that help you easily uninstall your applications in a matter of a few clicks since you've now rooted your phone. Here we take System App Remover as an example to illutrate how to delete preinstalled apps on Android.

For details about how to delete preinstalled apps on Android, see How to Uninstall System Apps with System App Remover.

How to Delete Preinstalled Apps on Android (No Root)

Though rooting is one of the easiest methods to simply uninstall the preinstalled bloatware apps on your Android phone, it is very much possible to carry out this process without resorting to rooting as well.

The only disadvantage of this method is that it can't be used to uninstall all of the preinstalled apps unlike rooting which can be used for almost every founder app out there.

1. Go to Settings and click on the 'About Phone' option. Locate the Build Number and click on it 7 times continuously to enable the Developer options. Click Developer options followed by 'USB Debugging'. Now Enable it.

USB Debugging

2. Now open your C drive and go the folder named 'ADB'. This was created when you enabled the USB Debugging. Right-click while holding Shift and then select the 'Open Command Window here' option to open a Command prompt window.

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3. Now connect your phone to the PC using a USB cable.

4. Enter the command illustrated below into the command prompt.

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5. Following this, run another command (as mentioned in the picture).

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6. Next, run the following command to find package or application names on your device.

pm list packages | grep 'OEM/Carrier/App Name'

7. Following the previous step, a list of applications of the same name will be displayed on your screen.

list of preinstalled apps to delete

8. Now, suppose you want to uninstall the calendar app that is present on your phone, type the following command to do so and the uninstallation will occur.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com. oneplus.calculator

How to Disable Preinstalled Apps

The method of disabling is one that applies to almost all applications but does not really work with all versions of the Android OS. Also, disabling an app doesn't really remove it from your phone.

All it does is temporarily make them disappear from the list- they still do exist in your device, in the background.

Here's how you can disable the preinstalled apps on your Android phone using a few simple steps:

1. Open Settings on your Android phone.

2. Click on the option titled 'Apps and Notifications'.

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