I removed Samsung’s unremovable apps, and now my phone zips along
I removed Samsung’s unremovable apps, and now my phone zips along
https://www.androidpolice.com/removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-now-phone-zips-along/
Publish Date: 2026-05-17 07:00:00
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Not too long ago, my mid-range Samsung started installing apps I didn’t ask for.
I noticed new games, shopping apps, and gallery apps sitting in the app drawer with no memory of downloading them.
The culprit was the Galaxy Store. It has an “auto-install over Wi-Fi” toggle hidden in its hamburger menu, and it was on my phone by default.
I force-stopped Galaxy Store, cleared its data, and disabled the auto-update and auto-install toggles. As a result, the unwanted installations stopped, and the storage and background data they’d been eating were freed up.
That fix had me thinking about everything else on the phone running in the background without my permission. I only needed to check my battery usage to see the full picture.
I knew how to disable most Samsung bloatware through Settings, but I wanted something more permanent. So I loaded up Android SDK Platform Tools and got to work.
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