In this article, you will learn how to remove facebook bloatware from OnePlus smartphones like OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro and OnePlus Nord.
These OnePlus devices comes with pre-installed bundle of Facebook apps like Facebook, Facebook App Manager, Facebook App Installer and Facebook Services. In which you cannot uninstall some applications from your OnePlus smartphone.
What is Bloatware?
Bloatware is the pre-installed applications in the new devices which will not impact the usage of the device even if they are not installed. Usually, these apps unnecessary running on the device and reducing the performance. Sometimes you cannot uninstall the apps other than disabling it.
Recently Max reported that Instagram is updating in OnePlus device from Facebook app installer instead of updating from Google Play Store.
I hate this so much pic.twitter.com/0cViyKaMGV
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) August 1, 2020
In OnePlus device you cannot directly uninstall from App Settings, but you can disable it.
How to uninstall Facebook Bloatware in OnePlus devices
To uninstall the Facebook Bloatware from your OnePlus device, we have one workaround for it. To do that your device must have access to ADB.
- Connect your device to PC.
- Open Command Prompt.
- Type adb devices to check your devices is connected properly.
- Now enter the below commands line by line in Command Prompt.
adb shell
pm uninstall -k --user com.facebook.appmanager
pm uninstall -k --user com.facebook.services
pm uninstall -k --user com.facebook.systemThe above commands will rid your new OnePlus smartphone from pre-loaded facebook bloatware.
You may need to repeat the above steps again with every OTA updates from OnePlus as they reinstall again. It is better than having no solution at all.
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