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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Speaking of not being able to delete system apps, a friend of mine with a Pixel phone says Google Play cannot be uninstalled from it. Anybody know for sure?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    It's a Pixel... Y'know, the phone universally supported by degoogled OSes including Graphene? The ease of unlocking the bootloader is the only reason I have one at all!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

    I moved from 16 years of iPhones to a Pixel 9 purely so I could put Graphene on it. It's been a couple of months so far and I'm loving it.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    You can via adb ( android debug bridge ) , no root needed, but you need a pc or shizuku. Although if he has a pixel device he should just install GrapheneOS imo. Edit: puxel -> pixel

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

    No you can't, 1 version of Google Play is bundled with the system image and cannot be removed. But you can uninstall updates and disable it to remove the automatically updated copy of Google Play.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Neither can the Chrome or Youtube apps, among others...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Ok then apparently his play store must have gotten hidden somehow. My theory is that he just fucked up.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    I had something similar, and yeah you can replace the entire OS with a customized version, which took someone significant effort to strip away the GA (Google Apps probably?) from it. So the answer depends on how much effort you want to put into the task - it's doable, but not easy.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

    On adb use pm uninstall than package name. there is something called universal android debloter. Also you can use shizuku with canta to remove it.