Updated the article to use a more up-to-date version of universal android debloater, called next generation. Same code, same interface, just more up to date. Guide: christitus.com/universal-android-debloat/ GitHub: github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
Great vid chris! BTW that debloater in the vid is quite outdated. The list it uses is outdated. Theres a fork called universal android debloater next generation which has been updated even as of 2 weeks ago.
if you have not ticked expert mode in settings, you can change " recommended" to "all" and "enabled" to "disabled". you can reinstall all deleted ones that way.
This video should have more "this might break things" warnings slapped on top of it. The tool is too powerful and easy to use to broadcast it's existence willy nilly like that imo
@@Snorlaxiian our species has historically cared for it's weakest. That is why we built large groups that created powerful civilisations whereas lizards eat their young, keep to themselves, and live in mud because there's only so much you can do when your own kind is your rival.
When i checked the adb packages, got to know even samsung has like 430 packages in phone and there were horrible packages in the name of user experience and ecosystem. This video was important
Using adb for years, it is a very good solution to improve your battery life and security in some cases. The main advantage is no need for root. Great video!
@@Samazing01 true. It was a major improvement from me using copy paste commands everytime my phone perfomed an update. There's also a convenient backup button that downloads all the packages to your desktop, incase you try and purge the packages permanently. Sucks that it locked features behind the paywall but what the heck🤷♂️ People gotta eat, right?
Shizuku and canta also good for debloat stuff without needing a pc Some manufacturer like vivo have restrictions making you unable to debloat certain apps, best use recommend setting, certain system apps can bootloop the device
What an amazing tool this is. I love how powerful it is, and obviously it has to be handled with cautious. Even the recommended preset is quite "aggressive" - but man, this tool can make basically any phone debloated. Wow. I'm just going to mention one thing though - when you update your phone using the classic OTA updating, you'll most likely need to re-run this tool because a lot of stock apps get reinstalled. PS: the 'recommended' preset can uninstall useful google apps, but you can just reinstall them all from the google play store anyway.
Oh my god. I am so like that I have discovered your channel lately. My hidden apps that where annoying my for the moment I bought my phone are gone. From 3½ rows to just half a row. You are a godsaver. I am waaiting to see what it does to my battery also. THANK. YOU.
The best thing that I've done was installing Lineage. It is sad that don't have for all devices. I'm Using Android 14 in a 2019 Motorola, I had issues with camera only in Android 12
@ChrisTitusTech what is your opnion on expandable RAM technology on smart phones? Aka ZRAM, most phones now have it enabled by default but there is stigma that it actually slows down the phone (along with the obvious degradation of your storage). They (internet) say this consumes more battery and slows down performance.
Used this on my Lenovo P11 tablet that I use to read before bed. Most of the time tablet just sits I went with recommended and checked all the info for what was being removed. Only kept about 8 out of 54 recommendations. Tablet went from 5-7 days on battery to right now 58% after 6 days! Thank you so much!
The software needs more polish. It can add features like showing the app name and logo in the app list so that we know what app we want to uninstall without going bake and forth between phone and PC. Regardless this is a great software.
Since you have a pixel device, you could install graphene and just have barebones android (none of the google services at all) thus even further extending you battery and also not having google harvesting all that juicy metadata continuously :D I know you tried graphene before on I think a pixel 3? I'm actually looking at getting a pixel 7 pro and using graphene on it. You can run google play in sandboxed environment within graphene and give permissions granularly, so you can still have youtube and maps and the play framework doesn't have anywhere near as many privileges as a native install on a google android device.
If you accidentally remove an app, you can restore it by selecting "Disabled" or "Uninstalled" in the the drop-down menu next to the one that says "Recommended"
This is AMAZING! My phone's (Xiaomi) battery came from lasting 6 to 8 hours up to 23 hours! Aside of that, this app removed all the shady apps that MIUI has to "phone-home to China", and now it's way more responsive, and it even restarts faster!
I have experience with doing this. It is not the best way. When my phone (samsung galaxy m22) was new i got 2 days of battery. I debloated the hell out of it and i had 100~ system apps. My battery at that time before debloating was barely a day and after debloating it was 1.5 days. I managed to be the first person in the world who got a custom os (CrDroid gsi) on an m22 and i put the steps on xda. Ive been enjoying 2.5 day battery and extreme customisation along with 75% more fps without overclocking. If you care about getting the most out of your phone, do this
adb devices - i get no devices even i activated in dev option .. :( i dididn't get any promt to accept anythink :( 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. manage to make de debuging woking but when i enter " uad_gui-windows" i get same error....
I have an older Motorola and took a couple of tries for the pop-up to appear for the ok; after that, my next issue was command line launching the program, not idea what I messed but, so I just launched the application from the extracted file and everything worked flawlessly. Thank You so much for the clear directions to take for this to happen; I have tried before and got frustrated so I stopped, this helped me a lot.
Hi Chris, I think u should tell to turn off usb debugging after the manip is done as it is not wise to keep it on for security purpose right ? Anyway I'll try it, didnt know bout debloaters for android, thx !
FYI on my pixel 6A when i uninstalled recommend services i lost carrier services AND the ability to change alert/notification sounds. Had to reinstall everything since clearly they were labeled incorrectly.
i get a full blue screen activate windows notification and i can't close it for 5 seconds,then when i want to close its open the settings.Its really annoing when gaming.(i used a spoofer before and reinstalled the windows ).Can you help me?
You can re enable apps by selecting Disabled from the dropdown menu. It will show the apps that you have disabled. Just click enable and you are good to go.
I know ROMs aren't a on fits all solution for everyone, but I've had a similar experience running Graphene w/o Google services. My phones coming on three years old, but it's battery life is still pretty amazing. Not just limited to Graphene when it comes down to slimmed down ROMs though. Some version variation of debloating via adb is also definitely a fine solution too too.
I got as far as adb devices, though I was spelling worng as norml. Nope. adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So thats endded faster than it started
How do you know how each one of these services are used by the OS? I would like to do this on my S23 to get rid of bloatware, but I still wanna keep functions such as step tracking for example
Disabling doesn't realy make any difference in terms of perormance,booting time and battery life, removing it is way better for the phone because u free up alot o storage that way.
Niagara launcher is 90% of the experience. Absolutely life changing, and it is the main thing that keeps me in the android ecosystem. Thx for another great video Chris!
I have an Oukitel that I manually took down as far as I could about five years ago; it runs Android. Since then I've only been charging it once a week on average and still have 100% battery capacity. If I need to do any computing stuff, I'm on a desk or laptop. That said, when I first learned about your Windows debloat tool way back when, I wished for something like it for my phone. Time has paid off and here it is. I want to use this but am unfamiliar with the Niagara launcher, so I'm a tad gunshy. I hope the resolve that on my next day off and learn about it so I can use this new to me tool. ... Wonder how much longer my battery will go after that?
I like this a lot. If you make another video about android/ iphone videos I would love that. I will play with this on my second phone. Work just leave alone till I feel like it needs trimming :-)
Nice vid! would you possibly be able to show how to set up wireless debugging on arch? i cant seem to get it to pair to my phone. charging port is busted so usb isnt an option for me
Thanks for this information i was needing to do something like this to my phone that i only use for calls check mails and messages, since 2020 my phone was giving me 4 to 5 days without debloat, lets see how much extra battery time i get
Hey there Chris! What package are you using to display your phone screen like that? Nice to see Niagara! I really liked it, but it was proprietary and paid so I switched to Olauncher with a pure black wallpaper for far greater minimalism. And I also liked Arcicons when I used them. But why not use Aurora and maybe MicroG with a Custom ROM?
What would you say about Dependencies App(s) ? How would we identify them? I think disabling Dependencies apps phone will consume more battery instead of improving battery. So , what would you recommend? Btw ADB AppControl has GUI.
Id like a full length video with all necessary steps from the getgo tbh. I have no idea how to use a custom loader, but I'd really like to debloat my phone >.
I'm going to try this on my Pixel 7 before I make another attempt at running GrapheneOS or CalyxOS. I like the idea of both of those alternate OS's, but they leave a little bit to be desired.
I still never had a smartphone so I will skip this one. Considering that it is just a computer system (two computer systems in a smartphone if you ignore things like initiating the POST-process which requires a mini-OS on itself) it is predictable what it is about, things like disabling BlueTooth, set it on airplane mode, disabling programs phoning home all the time...
Been using this for a while and have to say some of your info is incorrect. Due to the nature of the tool not requiring root it does not uninstall apps and services. It merely disables them so if you brick your phone all you need to do is factory reset and you’re good to go. Functionally it works the same as uninstalling though.
@@Steve21_harrisI deleted everything that was exported as the recommended apps to remove,selected all of them,deleted all of them, are then installed TH-cam and Firefox as my main search engine and everything was completely fine,my phone is way better now.
I just install grapheneos and run google services in in a sandbox that come with grapheneos make a video about grapheneos since it's so easy to install even my grandma can install it if she still alive
Updated the article to use a more up-to-date version of universal android debloater, called next generation. Same code, same interface, just more up to date.
Guide: christitus.com/universal-android-debloat/
GitHub: github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
Yo Chris, how to not look at the phone constantly?
@@thodean turn it off
@@thodeanthrow it out the window and get a samsung galaxy star
@@thodean try setting it to monochrome, nobody talking about it but it works
the latest version doesnt detect my redmi note 12 pro 5g, it also doesnt detect the adb tht is already installed so had to use an older version.
Great vid chris! BTW that debloater in the vid is quite outdated. The list it uses is outdated. Theres a fork called universal android debloater next generation which has been updated even as of 2 weeks ago.
Found it: github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation - I'll update the links
Thank you my guy!
thanks!
thanks man
Thanks!
if you have not ticked expert mode in settings,
you can change " recommended" to "all" and "enabled" to "disabled".
you can reinstall all deleted ones that way.
This video should have more "this might break things" warnings slapped on top of it. The tool is too powerful and easy to use to broadcast it's existence willy nilly like that imo
Natural selection
@@Snorlaxiian our species has historically cared for it's weakest. That is why we built large groups that created powerful civilisations whereas lizards eat their young, keep to themselves, and live in mud because there's only so much you can do when your own kind is your rival.
@@Xtrems Our species has? Maybe somewhere else, but not in the US or with capitalism in general.
a lot of viewers won't even finish the video just the few seconds then race to try it, before knowing any better!, oh my a disaster awaits
@@nedludd7622 you haven't been to China mate, the US would seem like heaven after
When i checked the adb packages, got to know even samsung has like 430 packages in phone and there were horrible packages in the name of user experience and ecosystem. This video was important
Yea, what phone do you have? You might be able to change your os/rom
Oh Samsung loves bloat
Did you also have to get a custom launcher for Samsung?
My samsung debloat list is 157 apps lol.
Android phones are so gimped nowadays. Glad you're showing off this tool
My xiaomi phone was close to 200 I think
My samsung was 300. Im left with 100 system apps
Comrades!!!! please share these lists🙏🙏🙏🙏
Does it also break samsung default launcher?
Using adb for years, it is a very good solution to improve your battery life and security in some cases. The main advantage is no need for root. Great video!
Same
I personally prefer ADB App control for Windows.. but it's great to see a cross platform alternative
I stopped using that garbage when it kept locking features behind the paid version.
@@Samazing01 true. It was a major improvement from me using copy paste commands everytime my phone perfomed an update. There's also a convenient backup button that downloads all the packages to your desktop, incase you try and purge the packages permanently.
Sucks that it locked features behind the paywall but what the heck🤷♂️ People gotta eat, right?
Definitely ✅
Shizuku and canta also good for debloat stuff without needing a pc
Some manufacturer like vivo have restrictions making you unable to debloat certain apps, best use recommend setting, certain system apps can bootloop the device
I hate Vivo, they have so much bloat on their phones
They need to be enabled via ADB for non-rooted devices too.
@@motazkasem3289 use shizuku for wireless debugging for android 11+
Most apps are easy enough to reinstall if you uninstall them. Also the other issue is updates will restore some things.
dude i remember your stream when u mentioned it. nice! your community has already debloat their phones, im glad
Thanks!
What an amazing tool this is. I love how powerful it is, and obviously it has to be handled with cautious. Even the recommended preset is quite "aggressive" - but man, this tool can make basically any phone debloated. Wow.
I'm just going to mention one thing though - when you update your phone using the classic OTA updating, you'll most likely need to re-run this tool because a lot of stock apps get reinstalled.
PS: the 'recommended' preset can uninstall useful google apps, but you can just reinstall them all from the google play store anyway.
Oh my god. I am so like that I have discovered your channel lately. My hidden apps that where annoying my for the moment I bought my phone are gone. From 3½ rows to just half a row. You are a godsaver. I am waaiting to see what it does to my battery also. THANK. YOU.
Also normally you can just factory reset your phone to restore any screw ups.
The best thing that I've done was installing Lineage. It is sad that don't have for all devices. I'm Using Android 14 in a 2019 Motorola, I had issues with camera only in Android 12
Oh just the camera not working? That's the only issue? lmao
@@FoxyDrewYes. That's what he said..
@@FoxyDrew Is working normally, I had a few issues in the version 12, stop being condescending dude, that's lame.
@ChrisTitusTech what is your opnion on expandable RAM technology on smart phones? Aka ZRAM, most phones now have it enabled by default but there is stigma that it actually slows down the phone (along with the obvious degradation of your storage). They (internet) say this consumes more battery and slows down performance.
"This video really extends your battery life"
I am keeping the video on loop so my battery life get extended a lot
I was installing custom roms when I saw that video, how amazing is that
Used this on my Lenovo P11 tablet that I use to read before bed. Most of the time tablet just sits I went with recommended and checked all the info for what was being removed. Only kept about 8 out of 54 recommendations. Tablet went from 5-7 days on battery to right now 58% after 6 days! Thank you so much!
The software needs more polish. It can add features like showing the app name and logo in the app list so that we know what app we want to uninstall without going bake and forth between phone and PC. Regardless this is a great software.
Since you have a pixel device, you could install graphene and just have barebones android (none of the google services at all) thus even further extending you battery and also not having google harvesting all that juicy metadata continuously :D
I know you tried graphene before on I think a pixel 3? I'm actually looking at getting a pixel 7 pro and using graphene on it. You can run google play in sandboxed environment within graphene and give permissions granularly, so you can still have youtube and maps and the play framework doesn't have anywhere near as many privileges as a native install on a google android device.
it actually made my battery last about 40$ longer. THanks Chris
Now that wouldnt work for systems where default apps are installed systemwide only would it ?
If you accidentally remove an app, you can restore it by selecting "Disabled" or "Uninstalled" in the the drop-down menu next to the one that says "Recommended"
This is AMAZING! My phone's (Xiaomi) battery came from lasting 6 to 8 hours up to 23 hours! Aside of that, this app removed all the shady apps that MIUI has to "phone-home to China", and now it's way more responsive, and it even restarts faster!
I have experience with doing this. It is not the best way. When my phone (samsung galaxy m22) was new i got 2 days of battery. I debloated the hell out of it and i had 100~ system apps. My battery at that time before debloating was barely a day and after debloating it was 1.5 days. I managed to be the first person in the world who got a custom os (CrDroid gsi) on an m22 and i put the steps on xda. Ive been enjoying 2.5 day battery and extreme customisation along with 75% more fps without overclocking.
If you care about getting the most out of your phone, do this
Thanks ... that damn Bixby is finally gone from my Samsung, such a small thing I know but great pleasure. 😌
adb devices - i get no devices even i activated in dev option .. :(
i dididn't get any promt to accept anythink :(
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
manage to make de debuging woking but when i enter " uad_gui-windows" i get same error....
got rid of a bunch of useless apps on my oneplus6, thanks chris.
I have an older Motorola and took a couple of tries for the pop-up to appear for the ok; after that, my next issue was command line launching the program, not idea what I messed but, so I just launched the application from the extracted file and everything worked flawlessly.
Thank You so much for the clear directions to take for this to happen; I have tried before and got frustrated so I stopped, this helped me a lot.
In case if "adb devices" command shows "xxxxxxx unauthorised" -> check your phone and allow acess
small correction you cant brick your device, even if your android becomes unusable go into your boot menu and hit factory reset
Don't use this on lenovo tab 12.. it randomly makes it crash..into android recovery where it says A error occurred
Can someone please help me. I go to the github page, I can't find a windows executable. Thanks in advance
Hi Chris, I think u should tell to turn off usb debugging after the manip is done as it is not wise to keep it on for security purpose right ?
Anyway I'll try it, didnt know bout debloaters for android, thx !
Usb debugging can also cause problems with things like usb drives if you use those with your phone
usb debugging can cause security issues if you tend to plug your phone into PCs . I mean...
you also can get information about the app-what it does, if you tap on the package name in UAD
You can also set it to disable apps instead of uninstall in the settings.
hello. where is weather in samsung android phone ?? thanks
um i am too scared to even uninstall a single thing because there is a lot of things i don't understand might break my phone
Loved the insights in this video! Thanks so much for sharing them! 📚
FYI on my pixel 6A when i uninstalled recommend services i lost carrier services AND the ability to change alert/notification sounds. Had to reinstall everything since clearly they were labeled incorrectly.
Is there any benefits conpared to just disabling the app?
Disabling isnt the same as removing so yes
i get a full blue screen activate windows notification and i can't close it for 5 seconds,then when i want to close its open the settings.Its really annoing when gaming.(i used a spoofer before and reinstalled the windows ).Can you help me?
definitely leave that Jersey Mike's app in there 🙂
Yes but what happens when you hard reset your phone ? do the deleted apps stay deleted ?
You can re enable apps by selecting Disabled from the dropdown menu. It will show the apps that you have disabled. Just click enable and you are good to go.
I know ROMs aren't a on fits all solution for everyone, but I've had a similar experience running Graphene w/o Google services. My phones coming on three years old, but it's battery life is still pretty amazing. Not just limited to Graphene when it comes down to slimmed down ROMs though. Some version variation of debloating via adb is also definitely a fine solution too too.
I got as far as adb devices, though I was spelling worng as norml. Nope. adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file. So thats endded faster than it started
I tried the UAD-NG from the github link, both the Windows and the Linux version crash before showing a GUI.... Anyone else have that problem?
The latest UAD tool shows the consequences of the uninstallations too. It's better to read that carefully and uninstall apps.
How do you know how each one of these services are used by the OS? I would like to do this on my S23 to get rid of bloatware, but I still wanna keep functions such as step tracking for example
Is there a way to backup apps with data and transfer to a new device?
Just used it on my oneplus open and did it have crap in it wow, I love how each app has a description about it
In the settings of this program you can select it to just clear and disable selected apps. Safer that way.
Disabling doesn't realy make any difference in terms of perormance,booting time and battery life, removing it is way better for the phone because u free up alot o storage that way.
Would you ever do an updated graphene os video now that they have added sandbox play apps?
Niagara launcher is 90% of the experience. Absolutely life changing, and it is the main thing that keeps me in the android ecosystem. Thx for another great video Chris!
using windows and there's no export option just review selection
for some reason nothing shows up after running the .exe It is visible on task-manager thou
I have an Oukitel that I manually took down as far as I could about five years ago; it runs Android. Since then I've only been charging it once a week on average and still have 100% battery capacity. If I need to do any computing stuff, I'm on a desk or laptop. That said, when I first learned about your Windows debloat tool way back when, I wished for something like it for my phone. Time has paid off and here it is. I want to use this but am unfamiliar with the Niagara launcher, so I'm a tad gunshy. I hope the resolve that on my next day off and learn about it so I can use this new to me tool. ... Wonder how much longer my battery will go after that?
Crashes and quits instantly when i click on the checkboxes or on the uninstall/disable button. In the latest Fedora 40 KDE.
Happens the same on the latest Windows build
Yess correct..
I like this a lot. If you make another video about android/ iphone videos I would love that. I will play with this on my second phone. Work just leave alone till I feel like it needs trimming :-)
I wonder if this coulb be used alonside the debloater for the fire tablets? Have some tried on a older fire device or a Xiaomi/poco device?
Nice vid! would you possibly be able to show how to set up wireless debugging on arch? i cant seem to get it to pair to my phone. charging port is busted so usb isnt an option for me
Used it year ago on windows I believe, really quite simple and useful.
Thanks for this information i was needing to do something like this to my phone that i only use for calls check mails and messages, since 2020 my phone was giving me 4 to 5 days without debloat, lets see how much extra battery time i get
Hey there Chris! What package are you using to display your phone screen like that? Nice to see Niagara! I really liked it, but it was proprietary and paid so I switched to Olauncher with a pure black wallpaper for far greater minimalism. And I also liked Arcicons when I used them. But why not use Aurora and maybe MicroG with a Custom ROM?
What would you say about Dependencies App(s) ?
How would we identify them?
I think disabling Dependencies apps phone will consume more battery instead of improving battery.
So , what would you recommend?
Btw ADB AppControl has GUI.
Id like a full length video with all necessary steps from the getgo tbh.
I have no idea how to use a custom loader, but I'd really like to debloat my phone >.
After this, my phone can't connect to 4g? Only LTE
Pixel pro 7
is the sony xperia 10 V good? I need to get an android phone for like 300$ max i havent had one in months
Using this on my s21 ultra... lets see how it goes
Share your experience please
I'm going to try this on my Pixel 7 before I make another attempt at running GrapheneOS or CalyxOS. I like the idea of both of those alternate OS's, but they leave a little bit to be desired.
Will try this tomorrow when I get my new phone 😆👌🏻
i use xiaomi adb fastboot tools, does using this tool still have benefits for me?
does this break safetynet/play integrity?
Will this work on a firestick?
does it also improve lineage os with nano gapps ?
Chris what's that launcher??? Niagara??? If you've made it yourself love to use it.
yep
i like your terminal appearance how to customize like this ?
I still never had a smartphone so I will skip this one. Considering that it is just a computer system (two computer systems in a smartphone if you ignore things like initiating the POST-process which requires a mini-OS on itself) it is predictable what it is about, things like disabling BlueTooth, set it on airplane mode, disabling programs phoning home all the time...
Been using this for a while and have to say some of your info is incorrect. Due to the nature of the tool not requiring root it does not uninstall apps and services. It merely disables them so if you brick your phone all you need to do is factory reset and you’re good to go. Functionally it works the same as uninstalling though.
God bless the guy who made than and bless you, Chris.
I hate to assume anything so, I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 tablet running Android. Will this work for the tablet too?
YES!
What could possibly go wrong by uninstalling everything. /s
END UP BRAEKING YOUR PHONE
@@Steve21_harrisI deleted everything that was exported as the recommended apps to remove,selected all of them,deleted all of them, are then installed TH-cam and Firefox as my main search engine and everything was completely fine,my phone is way better now.
I have been using this for a while and idk why but uad's ui is super wonky in my pc.
Using titanium backup since forever. Just freeze the bloat.
i try to delete the youtube app on my oppo phone then it automatically creates an clone app of it lmaoo
I'm too scared to use this on my Z Fold 5... Would love to debloat it tho 😭
Do you still use the dumbphone?
any chance to use this debloater with HyperOs ?
Yes you can but be careful while deleting some may result in crashing the system
When 4G is retired and we are forced to have power-hungry 5G, these debloats will be even more crucial. Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
what an amazing amount of work for the average person...
just charge the damn thing
And you end up with a broken stock launcher. Nah, I would rather suggest to install GrapheneOS if you have a Pixel phone.
thabk you sir
i was uninstall it manually but here i know there's such apps like this
Knowledgeable video☺️☺️☺️.
i can;t instal chocolatey....
I just install grapheneos and run google services in in a sandbox that come with grapheneos
make a video about grapheneos since it's so easy to install even my grandma can install it if she still alive
why does that version call it Pac Man? Why don't we see the yellow guy eating pellets anywhere?
Can this tool brick my device?