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Re:iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 ... by russellbeattie on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:43PM (#46819597)
Huh! I had no idea about those services. I just checked my S21 Ultra and yep, they were there. It took like 20 seconds to force stop and disable them, though I'm sure they'll be re-enabled during the next update.

Honestly, I'm not sure I care enough to worry about it. If I've never noticed in the past 5 years, then they weren't adding much "bloat".

When I think of that sort of useless software, I imagine all the OEM crap that Windows laptops come with that usually cause instability and hog resources.

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Re:iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 ... by aucisson_masque on Saturday January 31, 2026 @04:12AM (#46834862)
Sure, they weren’t annoying and aren’t taking much space.

It’s more about privacy, when you launch a firewall like pcapdroid and notice all the data these apps send in the background… that’s insane.

Plus, I just gave you 3 apps but there are dozens if not hundreds of them on any third party rom. The list is never complete because it keeps changing with each update. Some can’t be disabled or uninstalled because they break the phone.

Once you get in this rabbit hole, it’s maddening and you start to appreciate stock rom like iOS or pixel.

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