> Eventually I used adb to uninstall a bunch of stuff, but they're still taking up storage space even if I can't see them. Absurd.
So you didn't uninstall them, you disabled them.
So you didn't uninstall them, you disabled them.
No, I installed them.
Samsung had marked them as being non-uninstallable via the Android Settings UI, so I used `adb -d shell pm uninstall --user 0 <packagename>` to forcibly uninstall them, although (as I said) the code is still in the rom.
Simply disabling them could be done using the UI, or with `adb -d shell pm disable <packagename>`, but they'd still be cluttering the apps list - which is not what I wanted.
I wrote some notes at https://andyjohnson.uk/blog/2021/07/17/cleaning-up-a-samsung...
The point of uninstalling them was to remove them from my experience of using the tablet.
The point of uninstalling them was to remove them from my experience of using the tablet.
"Uninstall" and "disable" have specific meanings wrt Android. If you have issues with the terminology then you should probably take it up with the Android team.