OEMs pre-load phones with apps to improve user experience, but not all the pre-loaded apps and features are important to all users or some users have their own preferred app for a particular task, for example, most of the users prefer Google Calendar and Keep Notes over Custom Calendar and Notes apps that come pre-installed with the device. If you use a phone running a forked version of Android like MIUI or EMUI, you must have found some apps unnecessary at some point in time.
Presence of these unwanted apps don’t only annoy users but also consume system memory and drain the battery. Earlier we shared a workaround with our readers to disable some apps, but since there are many users who do not mind little tinkering with their devices, we are writing this post to share a workaround for uninstalling such apps on Xiaomi devices. Follow this guide to uninstall the apps to get rid of advertisements,
Make sure that you have adb installed on your device. You can download it from the links given below depending on the platform you’re using. Windows/ Mac. If you are on a Mac you need to,
Extract the Android zip and place the folder on your Desktop.
Open Terminal
Type cd Desktop/Android
Enter ./ADB-Install-Mac.sh
Now, open Settings app and go to About phone and tap on MIUI version seven times until you see the message ‘You are now a developer’.
Go to Additional Settings, followed by Developer options and turn on USB debugging.
Turn on the following options, connect the device to PC via USB cable and then run a command ‘adb devices’ in terminal/command prompt. You should get a pop-up on your device to ‘Allow USB debugging’ as shown in the screenshot below, the device address should appear in the terminal as soon as you allow USB debugging.
If the device address appears in the terminal, run another command ‘adb shell’ in the terminal, following which the device codename should appear on the screen.
Now you can run these commands in terminal to uninstall the following apps,
Removing security apps causes boot loop issues, according to several users, so we have removed those codes.
Users can also get a list of all the packages installed on the device by running the command ‘pm list packages -f’ and uninstall the apps that they want apart from the ones mentioned above, but we would advise our readers to do so only if they’re aware of the package name and their functions.
How To Uninstall A Program On Mac
Update: Added command to uninstall Clean Master as a part of Cleaner in Storage since it is one of the 59 apps banned by the Indian government.
How to open Terminal on Mac. The Terminal app is in the Utilities folder in Applications. To open it, either open your Applications folder, then open Utilities and double-click on Terminal, or press Command - spacebar to launch Spotlight and type 'Terminal,' then double-click the search result. Unlike in Windows where programs have their own uninstallers, removing a Mac application is usually as simple as dragging its icon from the Applications folder to the trash.
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There are several ways to uninstall an app on a mac. The core preferences files for applications installed on a mac are stored in /Library/Preferences. If you are looking to uninstall to fix an issue, then before uninstall a re-install to overwrite existing files would be the way to go. Here's how to do that: First, you need to access the Library folder - this has been hidden by default since Mac OS X 10.6, but it's easy to. The Library option will appear between Home and Computer in the dropdown - click this to open the folder. Now scroll through the list of folders looking for.
To uninstall an app, do the following: Start by opening the Applications folder; Locate a necessary app; Right click on it and select the Move to Trash option from a drop-down menu; To confirm the deletion, enter the administrator’s password and username and click on the OK button; Empty the Trash. Easiest Way to Uninstall Safari on Mac. As mentioned previously, Safari is the native web browser.
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