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How to uninstall carrier/OEM bloatware without root access
If you want to get rid of carrier/OEM apps from your phone, here's how you can uninstall bloatware from your device without root access!
If you've bought a new Android phone, chances are it came pre-installed with some apps you don't care about. OEMs often partner with other brands and companies to pre-install their apps on their devices, and these apps can be anything ranging from streaming services to music players. If your phone is locked to a particular carrier, there would be some apps your carrier has also pre-installed on your device that you may never use.
Universal Android Debloater gets major debloat list update and a few new features
The latest update for the Universal Android Debloater brings a major debloat list update, a few new features, and some UI changes.
After rolling out Universal Android Debloater v0.4.0 in February, XDA Member w1nst0n_fr has now released a fresh update for the shell script. The latest update (v0.5) brings a major debloat list update, a few new features, and several minor UI changes and improvements.
Universal Android Debloater gets updated with new bloatware list, UI enhancements, and more
After rewriting Universal Android Debloater in Rust, the developer has now pushed a major update for this bloatware removal tool. Read on!
The story of bloatware on Android started off with carriers bundling a variety of useless apps onto smartphones sold under their network. From there, it expanded rather quickly to OEMs themselves shipping a variety of functionally-duplicate-yet-inferior apps and even apps from Facebook and Microsoft with the factory firmware. While some people may find these preinstalled apps useful, the lack of an option to easily get rid of them due to needlessly tight system integration can prove to be frustrating for those who don't.
Universal Android Debloater helps you get rid of unwanted apps and bloatware on your phone
Do you hate the bloatware or pre-installed apps on your Android device? Here's how you can remove them using Universal Android Debloater.
We’ve talked about pre-installed apps AKA "bloatware" on many occasions. It’s not a mystery that shipping such non-essential apps is a crucial part of the carrier/OEM business policy. Considering the amount of diagnostic and usage data these applications can collect on your phone, one can easily deduce that carriers and OEMs do this for both additional revenue and control of the platform. Admittedly, bloatware is a rather subjective term, but the inability to uninstall or even disable some of these pre-installed system applications by traditional means is certainly a deal-breaker for the Android user base.
How to remove Facebook bloatware from the OnePlus 8 series and OnePlus Nord
The OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro, and OnePlus Nord come with Facebook bloatware that can only be disabled. Here's how you can uninstall the apps without root!
Android and bloatware are two spheres that have co-existed since the very beginning of the OS's existence. The story started off with carriers bundling a variety of useless or functionally-duplicate-yet-inferior apps onto smartphones sold under their network. From there, the story expanded to OEMs themselves bundling duplicate apps, and even to apps from Facebook and Microsoft being bundled onto smartphones. We see bloatware everywhere, so much so that its existence is no longer a surprise, but its non-existence definitely is a pleasant surprise. OnePlus is partaking in the bloatware mess by bundling in Facebook-owned apps on the OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro, and the OnePlus Nord. But thankfully, there is a way to remove Facebook bloatware from these devices.
Samsung is still sending advertisements to users via push notifications
Samsung was caught sending ads with push notifications 3 years ago. Despite much critisicm, they are doing it again with Push Services.
Samsung phones have a reputation for having a lot of bloatware pre-installed. At one point, there used to be a Samsung equivalent application for every Google app pre-installed. Nowadays, the software situation is a bit better with a lot less bloatware preinstalled on the latest Galaxy flagship devices. One area where Samsung hasn't improved on is their penchant for sending advertisements via push notifications.
Usually when you upgrade to a new phone it will come with all kinds of extra surprise apps that don't do much to improve your experience. This is called bloatware. Third party apps that you'll probably never use and take up storage and processing resources on your phone. In this video, Rawad rants about bloatware and how it has a negative effect on the user experience.