topic Removing pre installed apps in XZ Series

Removing pre installed apps

LogicalDude — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:27:45 GMT

I just found out that there are certain pre installed apps on my device (e.g., Amazon something, etc.) which I cannot uninstall but can only disable.

Is this indeed the case or am I missing something? That's quite surprising and cheap at the same time I think!

Re: Removing pre installed apps

najodleglejszy — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:46:50 GMT

@LogicalDude you're not missing anything, some of them unfortunately cannot be completely removed, just disabled. the silver lining is, they're stored in the system partition, so they don't take up the space that's accessible for your own files and apps.

Re: Removing pre installed apps

andili — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:26:57 GMT

You also can uninstall these apps via ADB for your current user. But this is pretty much the same as deactivating them.