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Is there a way to remove built in Samsung software?? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to go full open-source with my phone, which is why I use Lemmy instead of reddit, there are a lot of proprietary built in apps that are bloat and are of course, not open source, Samsung does not let you disable or uninstall any prebuilt apps, any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

You can disable the built-in apps.

They can't be removed as pre-installed apps are part of the OS image. It's a bit like the immutable distros now popular in Linux. Any update to the OS would just re-add them anyway.

These apps aren't exactly huge in disk size so disabling them is safe and effective. It will reduce battery and memory usage if you would ordinarily have them running in the background for some reason.