TouchWiz, if you remember has been notorious for a bulk of pre-installed apps or popularly what we say as bloatware. Samsung has come a long way ever since then and the latest OneUI is one of the best Android skin you can get now. Samsung did substantially reduce the pre-installed bloats so as to make its UI more responsive, fluid, and light-weight.
Despite this, there do exist some pre-installed apps that some of you would like to get them out of their devices. Here, we’ll list the common bloats worth removing from Samsung devices including their package name so that you can remove them using ADB commands which we’ve elucidated later in this post.
It goes without saying, the bloatwares/apps we’ve listed may be useful for you but not for others. So, do according to your preference and by no means, we disregard or disrespect the apps listed down. It’s just that maybe someone can find it helpful especially when he/she have to conserve some space in the internal storage by removing not-so-important system apps.
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Personally, I despise Microsoft Suite of apps and strongly believe they’re not worthy to have on a Samsung device as system apps. So, they’re the first and foremost apps to get kicked out of my Samsung device. Well, your mileage may vary!
List of Samsung Bloatware
MICROSOFT Apps OneDrive - com.microsoft.skydrive MS Office - com.microsoft.office.officehub MS Word - com.microsoft.office.word MS Excel - com.microsoft.office.excel MS Planner - com.microsoft.planner MS OneDrive - com.microsoft.skydrive ANT and Its Services com.dsi.ant.sample.acquirechannels com.dsi.ant.service.socket com.dsi.ant.server com.dsi.ant.plugins.antplus com.android.egg com.sec.android.easyonehand com.sec.android.widgetapp.samsungapps com.sec.android.app.launcher com.samsung.android.mateagent com.sec.android.easyMover.Agent com.samsung.android.app.watchmanagerstub com.sec.android.daemonapp com.samsung.android.app.social SAMSUNG PASS com.samsung.android.samsungpassautofill com.samsung.android.authfw com.samsung.android.samsungpass SAMSUNG PAY com.samsung.android.spay com.samsung.android.spayfw FACEBOOK com.facebook.katana com.facebook.system com.facebook.appmanager com.facebook.services CAR MODE com.samsung.android.drivelink.stub PRINTING com.android.bips com.google.android.printservice.recommendation com.android.printspooler SAMSUNG EMAIL com.samsung.android.email.provider com.wsomacp SAMSUNG GAME LAUNCHER com.samsung.android.game.gamehome com.enhance.gameservice com.samsung.android.game.gametools com.samsung.android.game.gos com.samsung.android.gametuner.thin SAMSUNG BROWSER com.sec.android.app.sbrowser com.samsung.android.app.sbrowseredge AR Emoji and Google AR Core com.samsung.android.aremoji com.sec.android.mimage.avatarstickers com.google.ar.core Flipboard flipboard.boxer.app Digital WellBeing com.samsung.android.wellbeing com.samsung.android.da.daagent Live Drawing com.samsung.android.service.livedrawing GEAR VR com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc com.samsung.android.app.vrsetupwizardstub com.samsung.android.hmt.vrshell com.google.vr.vrcore SAMSUNG KIDS com.samsung.android.kidsinstaller com.samsung.android.app.camera.sticker.facearavatar.preload SAMSUNG LED COVER com.samsung.android.app.ledbackcover pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.sec.android.cover.ledcover EDGE com.samsung.android.service.peoplestripe SAMSUNG DEX com.sec.android.desktopmode.uiservice com.samsung.desktopsystemui com.sec.android.app.desktoplauncher BIXBY com.samsung.android.bixby.wakeup com.samsung.android.app.spage com.samsung.android.bixby.service com.samsung.android.bixby.agent com.samsung.android.bixby.agent.dummy
Now let’s see how to get rid of them. Needless to say know, these boats are system apps and require special privileges to delete them. Thanks to a simple ADB command base, we could uninstall packages from the active user
Uninstall System Apps/Bloatware
- Download and install the USB drivers for your device (Get universal USB drivers here)
- Download and install the ADB binary for your particular OS (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Extract the zip file into a folder on your PC.
- Enable Developer Options and then USB Debugging on your phone.
- On your computer, browse to the directory where you extracted the ADB binary.
- Launch a Command Prompt in your ADB folder. For Windows users, this can be done by holding Shift and Right-clicking then selecting the “open command prompt here” option.
- Once you’re in the command prompt/terminal, enter the following command:
adb devices
- You will see that the system is starting the ADB daemon. If this is your first time running ADB, you will see a prompt on your phone asking you to authorize a connection with the computer. Grant it.
- Execute the command: “
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <name of package>” command (without quotes) to uninstall a specific system application. For instance, to remove Bixby Home (com.samsung.android.app.spage) enter the following commands and hit enter.pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.spage
Tip: You can get the package name of all the installed apps on your device using the ADB command
adb shell pm list packages
That’s it using the command you can remove any system apps. Just make sure the apps/services you uninstall are safe to uninstall and not the apps which govern core system functions, for example, the In-call UI app.
It’s pertinent to mention here that the ADB method to uninstall system apps doesn’t fully uninstall the app from the device, they are just being uninstalled for the current user (user 0 is the default/main user of the phone). Also, the cache/data of the system application will be preserved (which can’t be removed without root-access). Therefore, even if you “uninstall” a system application using this method, you can still receive official OTA updates.
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