Meta/Facebook preinstalls an app called Meta Services (previously Facebook services) on a very large percentage of android devices (I’ve never used one without it) and while they claim it helps updates and synchronisation between different meta apps, it is very suspicious. Why preinstall it on devices of people who will potentialy never use a single meta app?
Go to your app list/app management and show system apps and find anything with the words “meta” or “Facebook” then turn off network access for those apps (if you can) and disable them. (eg. Meta app manager, Meta app installer).
Edit: Looking around I have found several people complaining that this app is using their ram for 10 hours a day even though they don’t use anything Meta. That’s even more suspicious.
You can also do it without a pc using apps like LADB. It uses wifi debugging to simulate or basically remove the need for external device. But I don’t remember the links for them, sorry.
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If it can’t be uninstalled, try using adb commands from a computer to remove it. I got rid of a bunch of preinstalled stuff on my phone that way.
Can you possibly go more in depth or provide a source that goes more in depth on how to do this? Very interested in doing this
Here you go. Hardest part is probably installing adb, there’s a more detailed page linked to that in step 2.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
Awesome, thanks a bunch!
You can also do it without a pc using apps like LADB. It uses wifi debugging to simulate or basically remove the need for external device. But I don’t remember the links for them, sorry.
There’s also https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater , which uses adb and is more easy to use imo. And sorry for sending 5 replies btw.
Edit: 8*
keep in mind that uses the same method as
adb pm uninstallwhich doesn’t actually remove it from the system image, just the current user profile.There’s also https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater , which uses adb and is more easy to use imo. And sorry for sending 5 replies btw.
There’s also https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater , which uses adb and is more easy to use imo. And sorry for sending 5 replies btw.
You’re good lol
There’s also https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater , which uses adb and is more easy to use imo. And sorry for sending 5 replies btw.
There’s also https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater , which utilizes adb and is pretty easy to use.
Edit: Sorry for accidentally sending 4 messages.