How to uninstall pre-installed(bloatware) from your Android without rooting

Have you got a load of pre-installed apps on your android phone that you don’t want? They are also taking up a lot of space. These are the apps that the manufacturer wants you to use. These unwanted apps on your Android smartphone are called ‘bloatware‘ because they do not get easily removed like any other apps.

In this article, you are going to see “How to uninstall pre-installed(bloatware) from your Android phone without rooting” because some of them are you never want to use.

Here, you see all the best ways to remove these apps from your Android without rooting your device. By removing these pre-installed apps you can increase your phone performance, make your phone clean in interface and free up storage space.

You are going to delete, remove, disable, and atlast hide pre-installed apps.

What is bloatware?

Bloatware is applications that are pre-installed by phone manufacturers, whether it is useful or not. While some of them are really useful but some are not that useful they are just taking up storage space, affecting your phone performance.

Removing these pre-installed software are not that straight-forward because they are baked into the operating system. This guide goes into deep to look at all methods in which you can easily remove pre-installed apps on your android.

You have 2 options to do with these pre-installed apps, either uninstalling or disabling those apps.

Uninstalling vs Disabling pre-installed apps/bloatware

Well, you have two options both come with their pros and cons, uninstalling any bloatware leads to removing the files from your device completely. This becomes risky when you need those files again.

While disabling bloatware is risk-free to use. Makes sure that the app does not take your phone’s RAM by running in the background. At the same time, disabling bloatware makes you sure that it does not cause any problem.

Disabling Bloatware

Many apps consume resources, storage while they’re not active in use. However we can disable them,

Step 1: Go to Settings>Apps Management> App list. For every smartphone, the app list is in a different position.

Step 2: Now from all apps list select which one you want to disable.

Step 3: Tap on that app and check your phone have an option of ‘disable‘. You also notice some apps don’t have the ‘uninstall‘ option.

Easy way to disable any app

Step 1: Do a long tap on a pre-built system app that you want to disable.

Step 2: Now you get the option of ‘App info‘, click on it.

Step 3: Now in the ‘App info‘ click on the ‘disable‘ option, you can see the ‘uninstall‘ option is not-clickable.

Note: If the ‘disable‘ option is not clickable, then the first tap on ‘Force stop‘ then click on ‘Disable‘.

As a non-rooted phone, you can only disable apps, disable apps are similar to uninstalled apps. If you get any problem after disabling the app, you can easily again enable it.

How to Remove Bloatware From Android using ADB

To remove pre-installed or bloatware apps from your Android you need to install ADB on your device. This method is going to work on every android device irrespective of the manufacturer.

1. Enable Developer option

Go to settings>About phone. Tap on ‘build number‘ 7 times to enable the Developer option.

Build number location is based on the phone manufacturer.

2. Enable USB Debugging

Now go to the Developer option and enable ‘USB debugging‘. It allows you to use ADB(Android Debug Bridge) commands.

Gp to Settings>System>Advanced>Developer Options. Then enable the ‘USB Debugging’.

Now Connect your phone with your Pc using a USB cable.

3. Download Tools

Download ADB installer and Platform Tools on your Pc. You don’t need to download these tools if you’re using Linux or Mac.

4. Now procedure to uninstall Bloatware

Now you have to open the command prompt or Terminal in your platform-tools folder, type below commands to find out the names of all apps that are installed on your phone.

• adb devices – this command shows your device name along with the serial number on your prompt.
• adb shell – to activate the ADB command shell.
• pm list packages – it activates the ADB shell to get the package name of your system app.

Copy the package name that you want o to uninstall. However, if you can’t able to find out the actual app name from the list, then you can use the Android app “Package Name Viewer” on your phone to find out the package name of the installed app.

If you don’t want to install ‘package name viewer‘ then simply go to Google Play Store on your browser and search for the app. Check the URL where you get package names like com.google.android.contacts.

5. Finally Uninstall the apps

Now to uninstall apps by using the ADB shell, type the below command on your prompt.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 packagename

Note: Replace packagename with the app package name that you want to uninstall.

eg: You are removing YouTube then use the below command.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.youtube

After typing the above command in the prompt you get a conformational message with an output of “Success“.

Re-install removed app using ADB

You can also re-install any bloatware that you removed through the above method, for reinstalling you have to remember that app package name.

adb shell

pm install-existing packagename

eg: pm install-existing com.google.android.youtube (To re-install youtube)

That’s it, you are done with the ADB method to install or re-install pre-installed apps or bloatware from your phone without rooting.

Uninstalling pre-installed apps using Universal Android Debloater without rooting

‘Universal Android Debloater‘ is a bash script that is available on Git and other forums. This bash script is used to uninstall pre-installed apps or bloatware from android phones without rooting it through USB debugging mode.

First, you have to Enable ‘Developer Options‘ and ‘USB Debugging‘. You already see above how to enable both on your phone.

Now, connect your phone with Pc via USB cable.

Download and Install Files:

As you know ‘Universal Android Debloater‘ is a bash script that requires a Windows subsystem to execute this script. To install the Windows subsystem, visit Git and download it.

Now, download the .zip file of ‘Universal Android Debloater‘ from gitlab.

Run the Script And Uninstall System App

Now for uninstalling pre-installed apps from your Android phone:

• Extract that .zip file
• Open the extracted folder
• Find “debloat_script.sh” inside the folder and click on it to run the script.

Now script starts running and a command console will open, where it asked you if you want backup before proceeding or not. If you want backup type ‘Y‘ and if you don’t want to take backup type ‘N‘, atlast press Enter to continue uninstalling process.

Now the main menu gets opened in the command window with a lot of options like:

1. Package search
2. Restore a backup
3. restore packages
4. Debloat packages
5. Restore APKs (Root)
6. Debloat APKs (Root)
7. Exit and reboot the phone

Before proceeding in uninstalling pre-installed apps, you have to know that app package name.

Step 1: Then type 0 in the search console and press Enter.

Step 2: Now type the app name and press Enter. eg: type youtube on the console to uninstall the Youtube app.

Step 3: Now console shows you that app package name on the console.

Step 4: Now copy that package name and go back to the main menu.

Step 5: Now choose option 3 which is ‘Debloat packages‘.

Step 6: Now in the next console menu select 1 which is ‘Debloat a package‘.

Step 7: Now enter the package name of that application that you want to uninstall.

Step 8: Atlast, Reboot your phone to see the changes. Your System pre-installed app or bloatware gets removed from your Android phone.

How to Re-install Uninstalled pre-installed apps

1. Choose option 2 from amin menu
2. Then choose 1
3. Type the package name on the console and press Enter.

Now restart your phone and you see your uninstalled system app installed again.

Method 3:

Step 1: Firstly, we need to enable the Developer option on your smartphone. For that go to Settings>About phone>Tap 7 times on Build number.

Step 2: Now in the Developer option enable USB Debugging.

Step 3: Download ADB Driver for your Pc, if you don’t have Drivers Download ADB Drivers for your smartphone based on a Model from Google.

Step 4: Download the latest Debloater Software and install it.

Step 5: Now connect your smartphone to the PC using a USB cable.

Step 6: Open Debloater and click on Read Device packages. It now starts detecting all installed apps on your phone.

Step 7: Now you can see all app files & package names for installed apps on your smartphone. Tick on the app you want to uninstall or remove it from your smartphone.

Step 8: Now for deleting that selecting app click on Apply Button.

After clicking on the ‘Apply Button‘ you get a warning notice about the app deletion process. Just simply click on ‘Yes‘ to proceed with it. Now your all selected pre-installed or bloatware apps get removed from your smartphone.

Permanently Uninstall your System application

Uninstalling apps to save a memory of the phone and stopping privacy or data breaching but removes bloatware apps for a temporary period, when you do a factory reset or OTA update there is a possible chance that the app comes back.

So, if you want to remove the bloatware applications permanently then you must have root access or administrator rights, for that, you have to root your android smartphone.

Rooting make it much easy to remove pre-installed or bloatware system apps from your android phone., But everything comes with its pros and cons it applies to rooting also.

Conclusion

Now you are done with each and every best possible way you ever find to uninstall pre-install apps or bloatware from your smartphone without rooting. If you get any type of problem or error during using the above-described methods then comment below, I will reach you ASAP.

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