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Removing Pre-installed Apps

Users discuss frustrations with pre-installed bloatware and system apps on Android and iOS devices that cannot be fully uninstalled, only disabled, and methods like debloating or rooting to remove them.

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dkonofalski • Oct 15, 2019 • View on HN

Which applications can't you remove?

SkyPuncher • Dec 5, 2022 • View on HN

Some apps can only be disabled, but not deleted.It's basically forced marketing.

trollian • Sep 22, 2015 • View on HN

Are they removing the app from peoples' phones too?

vageli • Dec 26, 2017 • View on HN

This is not trivial and is not akin to simply uninstalling an app (coming from a google-free Android user on a pixel).

lern_too_spel • Oct 19, 2020 • View on HN

I have not had this experience, and I sideload a lot of apps. What sideloaded apps has it offered to remove?

robin_reala • Mar 17, 2024 • View on HN

What apps can’t be uninstalled on iOS?

ClassyJacket • Sep 29, 2016 • View on HN

Couldn't you just not install those apps you don't want?

throwuxiytayq • Dec 8, 2021 • View on HN

How are the apps still not removed?

tedks • Aug 7, 2014 • View on HN

Then uninstall the app, nobody's forcing you to keep it.

le_isms • Jul 5, 2012 • View on HN

I wish I didn't have to pay for another app to uninstall other apps :/