In many tutorials for uninstalling bloatware, the typical requirement is that your phone is rooted. A few users, like Samsung owners for example, can download paid apsp from Google Play for rootlessly de-bloating their devices – but the mileage may vary with those apps. In this guide, I’m going to show you a recently discovered and absolutely amazing method of removing bloatware from your phone, leaving /system intact, and still allowing you OTA updates from the manufacturer.
Requirements:
USB drivers for your deviceADB binary for your OS – see “How to Install ADB on Windows”
It’s very important to use the exact commands I specified. We are uninstalling /system apps which can be dangerous, but the method I am showing you does not delete them entirely from your phone – rather what we’re doing is uninstalling them for the current user, because user0 is the default device user. So the apps will remain in /system, but they will not be enabled or launched when you boot up your phone. This has significant advantages over completely uninstalling /system bloatware, because you will still be able to receive official OTA updates for your device. Furthermore, the apps will return if you perform a factory reset on your device.
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