How to remove Play Market on Android? (step-by-step instruction)
Sometimes situations arise when you need to remove Play Market from an Android smartphone or tablet. By the way, Play Market is also called Google Play or Play Store (at different times there were different names). It seems that this thing used to be called Android Market. Anyway. Let's start looking at how to remove Play Market.
Instructions
If the Play Market application store was not initially installed on your device, and you installed it yourself, then deleting it will not be a problem. It will be uninstalled like a normal application. Everything is very simple here.
If the Play Market was installed initially, then the situation becomes much more complicated; in total, there are three known methods of removal: disable the application, reflash the device, or remove using root rights.
The easiest way is to disable Play Store
- Open Settings
- Go to the "All Applications" section
- In the section menu (three dots in the upper right corner of the screen) select “Show system processes”
- In the list of applications, find and open “Play Store”
- Click on the “Uninstall updates” button
- Click the “Disable” button that appears
Flashing
Unfortunately, this method is not suitable for everyone, since flashing to the same firmware will not give anything. You need to update to custom firmware, which does not have the Play Market, and there may not be one for the model of your smartphone or tablet. Sad.
In addition, you can accidentally “brick” the device, which is not at all okay, unless, of course, you have gotten your hands on this.
Remove Play Market using root
The bottom line is that you get root rights, and then download and install the Titanium Backup program, giving it superuser rights. In the “Backups” tab, select Play Store. A window will appear in which you need to select the required item.
That's all.
Now you know how to remove Play Store in three ways. If you have a simpler and more effective method, write about it in the comments.
