{"id":247294,"date":"2026-05-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/i-removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-and-now-my-phone-zips-along\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:45:09","slug":"i-removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-and-now-my-phone-zips-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/i-removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-and-now-my-phone-zips-along\/","title":{"rendered":"I removed Samsung&#8217;s unremovable apps, and now my phone zips along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-now-phone-zips-along\/\">I removed Samsung&#8217;s unremovable apps, and now my phone zips along<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-now-phone-zips-along\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-now-phone-zips-along\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not too long ago, my mid-range Samsung started installing apps I didn&#8217;t ask for.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed new games, shopping apps, and gallery apps sitting in the app drawer with no memory of downloading them.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit was the Galaxy Store. It has an &#8220;auto-install over Wi-Fi&#8221; toggle hidden in its hamburger menu, and it was on my phone by default.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;d been eating were freed up.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tMy old flagship is fine, but app bloat is killing it faster than the battery<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">This is why your phone lags<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-samsung-apps-i-cleared-out\">\n  &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/removed-samsungs-unremovable-apps-now-phone-zips-along\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I removed Samsung&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-samsung-smartphone-displaying-a-menu-to-uninstall-a-system-app-with-a-large-red-trash-can-icon-in-the-foreground.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-247294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247296,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247294\/revisions\/247296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}