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You're now ready to connect your phone up to your computer via USB and get to work. (There's no harm in doing this, but it does open up a number of new options you should take care using, if you experiment with them.) Your phone also needs to be put into developer mode, which you can do by going to About Phone in Settings and tapping Build Number seven times: This will reveal a new Developer Options menu in the System section of Settings, in which you need to enable USB debugging. The first is to install the Android Studio developer tool on a Windows or macOS computer-you'll find the downloads on this page. If you want to completely remove apps rather than disabling them, or you come across bloatware that can't even be disabled, then a couple of more advanced and involved options are open to you. The process may differ slightly depending on the make and model of your phone and the version of Android that you're running, but if you head to the main Settings app you should be able to remove or disable apps easily enough, leaving you with a phone that's a little less weighed down by unwanted junk.Īs we've said, some Android phone makers will preinstall apps that can't be removed through the usual method.

They can also be confusing, leaving you with multiple apps on your phone that all do the same job. While the vast majority of bloatware won't actually do anything harmful, these unwanted apps take up storage space and system resources that could be used by apps that you actually do want to use. The situation has improved in recent years, but even today you can open up a brand-new Windows laptop and find yourself running trial versions of a half-dozen different apps, utilities, antivirus, and office tools. The term was originally used to refer to Windows computers, which could come with a long list of third-party utilities and software suites on top of Windows itself, depending on who you bought the computer from. They're often used by manufacturers to push their own apps and services on top of (or instead of) what the smartphone offers by default. Bloatware doesn't sound pleasant, but it's a fairly mild condition: It's those apps that come preinstalled on your smartphone that you definitely didn't ask for and probably don't want.