Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
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Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2024-03-17 · latest 2026-09-02
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comment by nobody42 · 2026-09-02 · in How to debloat your Xiaomi 15 Ultra without root access -
>"for the debloating i used xda forums. they have a lot of forum posts about what is safe to remove from any device but as always be careful. don't try to remove gpu drivers or something" Suggestion: Use the Universal Android Debloater…
comment by hnburnsy · 2026-08-21 · in Using an old Android phone as a music player -
That is what I was alluding to, though I recommend people to use UAD-ng, since it explains what each package is and they are separated in safety-based categories. One note though: removal of system apps with adb is blocked in Android 17.…
comment by microtonal · 2026-08-06 · in “Gravity is worth asking about” -
For those who do not have the funds for anything else, its worth looking into uad-ng: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an... E.g. on most Samsung phones you can uninstall (from the user partition): third-party…
comment by microtonal · 2026-06-26 · in Jolla Phone (October 2026) -
How old is your Moto G? Anything in the last few years has the moto app manager that force loads LinkedIn etc. Due to cheap and cheerful with long lasting battery - I still buy Moto G - but setup offline and disable all these apps using…
comment by markjchambers · 2026-05-26 · in Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes -
Samsung + Universal Android Debloater rocks. You get great hardware and you can remove as much or as little of the Samsung\Google nonsense as you like. https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...
comment by hnburnsy · 2024-08-13 · in Google Pixel 9 Pro -
Thanks. Both com.miui.securitycore and com.xiaomi.account are marked as unsafe for deletion. So it was somewhat expected to break. If we are talking about right packages, of course. https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-…
comment by No0op · 2024-03-17 · in Debloat non-rooted Android devices -
This [1] is the list that UAD uses. [1] - https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...
comment by thatloststudent · 2024-03-17 · in Debloat non-rooted Android devices -
This project is unmaintained since a year. For an up-to-date and maintained fork see https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-an...
comment by judiisis · 2024-03-17 · in Debloat non-rooted Android devices