How to uninstall apps on realme devices without root

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 Version seven times until you see the message ‘You are now in Developer Mode’.

 

Go to Additional Settings, followed by Developer options and click on the toggle to turn it on

Enable USB debugging

 

Connect your device to PC via USB cable, choose ‘Transfer Files’ mode 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 following commands for the apps that you want to uninstall in the terminal,

App Market

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.oppo.market

Browser

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.nearme.browser

Calculator

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.calculator

Compass

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.compass2

Music

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.oppo.music

Recorder

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.soundrecorder

Roaming

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.redteamobile.roaming

Screen Recorder

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.screenrecorder

Smart Assistant

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.assistantscreen

Video

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.video

Weather

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.weather.service

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.coloros.weather2

Gmail

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.gm

Google Calendar

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.calendar

Google Drive

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.apps.docs

Google Keep

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.keep

Google Maps

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.apps.maps

Talkback

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.marvin.talkback

Youtube

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.google.android.youtube

Facebook services

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.facebook.appmanager

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.facebook.services

pm uninstall –k ––user 0 com.facebook.system

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. Also, remember that these apps will be back after a factory reset