Apps for Android phones are plentiful and easy to download. But once you've downloaded an app it doesn't mean it has to live ...

Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...

If you’re running out of storage on your Android phone or tablet, you might be wondering how to delete some apps. Deleting an app is an easy task that doesn’t take much time. In this post, we’ll take ...

Deleting an app from your Android device is not always as straightforward as it seems, as leftover data can still occupy valuable storage space. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to completely ...

Begone bloatware!

Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Android smartphones frequently arrive equipped with an assortment of built-in Android apps, widely referred to as bloatware. This term encompasses a variety of software that, while intended to offer ...

Most Android phones ship with preinstalled apps nobody asked for, and several categories of them can be removed without affecting how the phone runs.

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

Google has the ability to remotely reach out to your phone and remove applications that you’ve downloaded and installed from the Android Market. That sounds scary… and it kind of is. But since Android ...

Tamping down on preinstalled garbage on an Android is a tradition as old as the OS itself. Unlike Apple, which tightly controls both the hardware and software of its smartphones, Android phones aren't ...

AppBrain has launched an updated version of its Android app which includes a landscape mode, a new optional dark theme, and oh yeah, it lets you uninstall apps from the AppBrain web site. Scan to ...