why can't I completely Uninstall Facebook?

[King Wilson]

So, I heard that if you Uninstall facebook, it would increase battery life. I'm rarely on there more than twice a day, so I figured why not? I go to Uninstall the application, like normal. Once I click it, it doesn't say anything about uninstalling, says something about not updating anymore. Wtf? So I did it anyway to see. Other apps, when I Uninstall them, if I want to use it again I have to reinstall. No, not fb. It says update. Also I could not get rid of the app off my phone, with out hiding it.

Is fb now baked into phones?

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[pduffer]

Open you application manager in settings and disable it there. The picture you attached is from the Play store.

 

[Javier P]

Unfortunately some Samsung devices come with Facebook preinstalled so it's treated as a system app. If that's your case the only option is to disable the app in settings - apps - all.

 

[Jude526]

Its not preinstalled on this device. Go into application manager.

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[Xingularity]

You don't have to disable it. If you don't log in to it then it does not run. If you do want to use Facebook. Just create a short cut to the Facebook Web page and use that instead.

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[datdude4dub]

If you're rooted you can uninstall it via titanium backup.

 

[anon(5719825)]

If you're rooted you can uninstall it via titanium backup.

This is how I had to remove it. I hate that Samsung made this a preinstalled app. It also had a habit of updating itself outside of the play store because of this.

 

[Mghollan26]

I uninstalled the updates in the application manager for Facebook. I also deleted fb messenger. Battery life is now back to normal. Both apps were unbelievable battery hogs.

 

[SonjaBfromTx]

Hello yes ! Bastards ! You can ONLY "Disable" it , Not possible to Uninstall it, but the ******* won't tell you that when buying !

 

[sspoulsen]

Samsung Package Disabler can disable it so it won't drain battery

 

[9900Boldfan]

Disable feature is useless. Facebook can still track all your stuff in the background. It still runs in the background even though it is disable. They did not allow users to uninstall for a reason. The uninstall option was there previously but they changed it to disable which is pretty much useless.

 

[9900Boldfan]

The bad part about Facebook.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...arty-apps-violates-data-protection-principles

 

[Nate606]

Its not preinstalled on this device. Go into application manager.

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Yeah, one goes to settings/apps/fb
Options are disable and source stop. There is no uninstall feature

 

[jsigmo]

Yes. I've never used it, and didn't even know it was on the phone until I saw that it had updated itself! All I could do was "disable" it. But it is still supposedly using memory and accessing memory at a fairly high rate.

 

[and_youf]

But it is still supposedly using memory and accessing memory at a fairly high rate.

How are you able to monitor that?

 

[Jello Beyonce]

Facebook is largely owned by the same largest shareholder firms that also own the largest "competing" tech firms, including Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, Google (developer of Android OS), and other of the largest tech firms (source = morningstar.com).

Even Samsung (and other of the largest manufacturers) are largely owned by the same largest firms.

Apps from many of these companies are pre-installed and built in because they're all part of the same larger mega-corporate family. They all exist to drive user data, and thus more revenue to their companies, whom drive profit back to these shareholder owners.
Where many people are led to believe companies like Google and Facebook (and/or Apple for that matter) are competitiros, they are friendly "competitors".
They "compete" only in the sense of whom can drive the most profit back to their largest shareholder owners.

Thus they usually can't be uninstalled (thru the OS iteself), only "disabled".
Be sure that even when they're "disabled" they're still transmitting use data. Thus the reason they can't be uninstalled (thru the OS itself).
This is why software/apps like Android OS are free. They make their money on the backend.

 

[daninbluemd]

Facebook is largely owned by the same largest shareholder firms that also own the largest "competing" tech firms, including Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, Google (developer of Android OS), and other of the largest tech firms (source = morningstar.com).

Even Samsung (and other of the largest manufacturers) are largely owned by the same largest firms.

Apps from many of these companies are pre-installed and built in because they're all part of the same larger mega-corporate family. They all exist to drive user data, and thus more revenue to their companies, whom drive profit back to these shareholder owners.
Where many people are led to believe companies like Google and Facebook (and/or Apple for that matter) are competitiros, they are friendly "competitors".
They "compete" only in the sense of whom can drive the most profit back to their largest shareholder owners.

Thus they usually can't be uninstalled (thru the OS iteself), only "disabled".
Be sure that even when they're "disabled" they're still transmitting use data. Thus the reason they can't be uninstalled (thru the OS itself).
This is why software/apps like Android OS are free. They make their money on the backend.

Well said - it's all about data harvesting and selling that (our) data. FB, I assume, pays Samsung to permanently install their app.

 

[Rover775]

You don't have to disable it. If you don't log in to it then it does not run. If you do want to use Facebook. Just create a short cut to the Facebook Web page and use that instead.

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But even if you don't log in, the app itself (354MB) and the supporting apps, like FB App Manager (90.1MB) still use phone/battery resources with updates, for example. Better to disable all FB apps to conserve your phone's resources.

 

[and_youf]

Definitely disable FB. Also a bit off-topic but the weather apps, 1weather, accuweather all that stuff that have nice looking home widgets are supposedly data miners also. Best to use Google's built-in weather app, you can add a shortcut/widget for it to the home screen.

 

[kct1975]

Well said - it's all about data harvesting and selling that (our) data. FB, I assume, pays Samsung to permanently install their app.

I don't know about Data Havesting, but yes, Facebook pays Samsung, HTC, and many other smartphone manufacturers to permanently install Facebook.

But even if you don't log in, the app itself (354MB) and the supporting apps, like FB App Manager (90.1MB) still use phone/battery resources with updates, for example. Better to disable all FB apps to conserve your phone's resources.

Personally I did DISABLE the Facebook App, but my stock Samsung Note 5 does not allow me to Disable Facebook App Manager and Facebook App Installer.