Don't buy a Samsung next time
Try to trade in your current Samsung for something with less bloat
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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In my experience, the easiest way to get rid of bloatware junk is to use Universal Android Debloater. This gives you a GUI/wizard to execute the ADB commands. Here is an introduction (in German): Google-Apps und weitere Bloatware loswerden mit dem "Universal Android Debloater Next Generation"
You need to return that phone ASAP and get something that will let you install a custom ROM on it, like a Pixel or a OnePlus.
Edit: shitsung just recently sent out an update that finally kills off bootloader unlocking for all shitsung devices. Us Americans haven't been able to do it for quite a long time, but Europe and Asia could, and now they no longer can. So shitsung is absolutely not a brand to be using at all.
Indeed. Samsung's software can only be stripped down so far, which still means many megabytes sent back home on any given day. From first-hand experience, there is no good way of installing a custom ROM on newer US Samsung phones, let alone get working service on it.
If anyone has qualms about contributing to Google, get a factory-unlocked Pixel second-hand or from a discount reseller.
Source on the edit? I believe you, just curious about the details.
It was in the news a couple of weeks ago. Here is an article: https://9to5google.com/2025/07/26/samsung-galaxy-one-ui-8-bootloader-unlock/
Hey, thanks for finding that.
I'm not buying a Pixel because I'm not giving Google any money.
Refurbished pixels :D
Swappa is a great site for gently used phones, btw.
Canta+shizuku no need for extra pain
Can confirm that this works great and is quite easy.
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.youtube
you can start there and than you know how to uninstall the rest of the bloat
adb shell pm list packages
will give you a list of all the installed packages
you don't even need to root to uninstall through adb
but, with an unlocked phone it should be better to just install a degoogled android
https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater already has a list for samsung debloating
Bear in mind, this isn't actually uninstalling the binaries, it is just masking them for that user account. Samsung/Google can turn them back on whenever they choose.
indeed, if you update, they will all be back on
Never seen them come back after update
You can use ADB and Universal Android De-bloater to disable them completely: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater/releases
ADB AppControl
That is what I used to debloat my S23U, even banished Bixby to the shadow realm.
I had a Samsung phone once through the mobile company....never - ever - again. seriously made me contemplate a old school flip phone but all our banking is done on the phone app because their website is shit
Change banks
Actually did, then also got a new phone, lol
which did you end up getting?
You should be able to root it with odin and install TWRP as a custom recovery. From there install a cfw of your choice.
Or just use your new root power to uninstall the bloatware.
Not on Qualcomm chipsets. Which is most these days.
OP stated the device is already unlocked.
Everything's uninstallable for me.
@ScoffingLizard You can remove whatever you want with adb shell or this: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater