How To Uninstall Facebook App On Galaxy S6

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, with more than 2 billion users, but its image has been compromised due to recent privacy scandals. Many of these episodes even motivated people to give up using the service. The most recent of these, in turn, showed that Android applications would be sending your personal information to the social network without you knowing it.

Currently, when buying a device it is not uncommon that the Facebook application is already installed on it, even if you have no interest in using the social network. Thus, unlike what you can imagine, the process for removing the app on your phone is not always as simple as it seems depending on its manufacturer. Next, check out how to uninstall the Facebook app and its services on Android or iPhone:

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On android

Uninstalling the Facebook application on Android does not differ much from other programs when the manufacturer does not hinder it. So, to remove it, just follow these steps:

Enter the "Device Settings" screen and go to "Applications";
Look for Facebook in the list and, when accessing it, click on "Uninstall". In the message, tap "Ok".

When you uninstall Facebook, Messenger, your messaging application, remains installed. Therefore, if you wish to remove it too, it is necessary to repeat the above process with it.

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When Android doesn't allow uninstallation

Depending on the brand of your device, it may be that Facebook is already pre-installed and there is no way to uninstall the app following the procedures listed above. In these cases, there are two options:

The first and simplest, consists of just 'deactivating' the application. That is, it is not uninstalled, but it stops working and runs in the background. To do this, you need to follow these steps:

Enter the "Device Settings" screen and go to "Applications";
Look for "Facebook" in the list, click "Disable" and "Disable" again. If necessary, do the same process for "Messenger".

If you want to reactivate it to use it again, just enter the same menu and use the "Activate" option. As stated above, this presented form does not uninstall the application, but there is a way to still remove it. For this, it will be necessary to use a computer together with Android. First, starting on Android, enable developer mode and USB system debugging as follows:

Access the "Device settings" screen and go to "About device". Enter "Software information" and tap 7 on "Version number";
Go back to the "Device settings" main menu, enter "Developer options" and enable the "USB debugging" item.

Now, on the computer, it is necessary to install the ADB drivers and its tools to manage Android. Look:

Download the ADB drivers through this link and install them;
So, do the download for free ADB tools and extract the contents of the ZIP file to an easily accessible folder. If possible, create a folder called "adb" at the root of C: \;
Connect your phone to your computer and leave it in file transfer mode;
Open the "Command Prompt" as an administrator through the "Start menu";
Enter the following command to access the folder where the ADB tools are located: cd c: \ adb \ platform-tools;
To make sure that the cell phone is being recognized as it should on the computer, enter the command: adb devices. If the word "unauthorized" appears, unlock the phone and grant permission to perform USB debugging;
Now, start the ADB tool with the command: adb shell;

To list the Facebook applications and services that are installed on your device at the factory, enter the command: pm list packages | grep 'facebook'.

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Note that the command used will list more than one application for Facebook. Therefore, to remove it completely, you will need to uninstall all of them with the command: pm uninstall -k package name.

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After uninstalling Facebook, if you wish, the process can be repeated with Messenger. The command you will use is the same, the difference is that in the command to list the installed applications, you must use "Messenger" in the name of the package.

On iOS

The process for uninstalling Facebook on iPhones and other Apple devices is much easier and follows the universal method of removing apps. Check out how to do it in just one step: