I wish Google would follow suit with Android. My tablet is so bloated with Google apps I don't want, never use and can't remove that there is no room left to download apps I do actually want to download and use.
iOS10 bloatware deletion
Apple will allow users to delete bloatware such as Stocks, iBooks, iCloud Drive, Contacts and many others in iOS10. The OS update also grants users the ability to send enlarged emojis on a single line of text and add the option to send GIFs and stickers. ®
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Tuesday 14th June 2016 15:59 GMT barstewardsquad
I wish Google would follow suit with Android. My tablet is so bloated with Google apps I don't want, never use and can't remove that there is no room left to download apps I do actually want to download and use.
You can on the newer Nexus devices such as the 6p.
Of course crApple will be suing Google for this even though Google had the feature last September
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Tuesday 14th June 2016 16:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
I agree some of that is bloatware, but Contacts?
The question I have is, if you delete one of those apps does it actually free up space? Or does it just hide the app? If the latter, then this really isn't any different from the current strategy of sticking the stuff you don't want in a folder or a faraway screen you never visit.
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Tuesday 14th June 2016 19:15 GMT Fitz_
Re: I agree some of that is bloatware, but Contacts?
As they are listed on the Apple Store to re-download, it looks like they will free up space while allowing Apple to update individual apps without an entire iOS upgrade.
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Tuesday 14th June 2016 20:31 GMT DrXym
This is probably not the reason why
I bet iOS is starting to use up all the space in its fixed system partition so they're shedding some apps in the hope they can go longer before doing something more drastic.
I don't see it helps users much since anything in the system partition is basically not using space in the user partition. But by moving these apps to the user partition, people who install them end up using up more space.