I guess it is bound to happen. You grant your cell phone provider (and many apps) access to your phone and strange things happen. I now have apps on my Verizon phone, that were not there when I purchased it. I have absolutely no use for probably 3/4 of them but Verizon tells me they can't be uninstalled. And I know that when I select apps to uninstall, they are not listed. Any tricks to how these apps might be deleted?On the other hand, apps that I liked and used have suddenly disappeared. I really liked the app, first named places and then changed to local, that we used to look up any number of things when we were in, or coming into, a strange town. Now it seems to be gone. I can still use google maps to find places but it doesn't work as smoothly in my opinion. I tried downloading an app, called local places I think, but I could not get it to work like I was hoping. For instance, say I was going to Des Moines, I could use places to look up restaurants, specific stores, etc. I just had to input "VFW in Des Moines area". With the one I downloaded all it gives me is stuff with in fifty miles of my current location. Are you aware of another app that would work like local did or is there some way to change the setting on other apps that purport to do the same thing.

jrs1871 wrote:I guess it is bound to happen. You grant your cell phone provider (and many apps) access to your phone and strange things happen. I now have apps on my Verizon phone, that were not there when I purchased it. I have absolutely no use for probably 3/4 of them but Verizon tells me they can't be uninstalled. And I know that when I select apps to uninstall, they are not listed. Any tricks to how these apps might be deleted?On the other hand, apps that I liked and used have suddenly disappeared. I really liked the app, first named places and then changed to local, that we used to look up any number of things when we were in, or coming into, a strange town. Now it seems to be gone. I can still use google maps to find places but it doesn't work as smoothly in my opinion. I tried downloading an app, called local places I think, but I could not get it to work like I was hoping. For instance, say I was going to Des Moines, I could use places to look up restaurants, specific stores, etc. I just had to input "VFW in Des Moines area". With the one I downloaded all it gives me is stuff with in fifty miles of my current location. Are you aware of another app that would work like local did or is there some way to change the setting on other apps that purport to do the same thing.in the case of the iPhone each time apple upgrades the OS that upgrade includes new system apps. sometimes the "new" app is merely renamed, sometimes a new app is created from an existing app and sometimes the new app is just new. android probably does the same. as to how to delete those pesky system apps...a google search turned up lots of information about that. personally I simply group all of those unwanted apps into a separate folder and place that folder on the last page of our iPhones. in the case of disappearing apps, again referencing apple products since that is what we use, once you download an app it remains in your account until deleted. your account is managed thru the iTunes on your PC/Mac. if you have synced your iPhone using iTunes it is a simple matter to reinstall the missing app to your phone.

(I'm assuming you have an Android, which may or may not be true)For the apps that you can't uninstall, sounds like you're referring to "bloatware" - stuff you don't want/need, but can't get rid off. VZ Navigator is a prime example. If you got an update to your phone you might find new bloatware has been added. Depending on which version of the OS you have you may be able to disable these or if you get a new launcher you can hide them so you never have to see them.Google Local (née Places) is now part of Google+. Google has a habit of revamping their apps, renaming them, integrating them, retiring them with little or no warning. That's just the way they do things. Yelp is a very popular app that has similar capabilities to the old Places/Local.

Go to manage apps, select each app you do not want and select it, you should find buttons to force stop, clear data and,disable. Select disable. Thats the best you can do. At least it stops the bloatware from downloading updates wasting your time and bandwidth.

Yes I do have an android phone. VZ Navigator is a prime example of the bloatware but there is a whole bunch of that garbage that I will never use. I will check out Yelp. I will also see if I can hide the unwanted garbage. The first 1 1/2 pages of apps is stuff I don't or won't use. Even though it won't be gone, just not having to page through it every time I am looking for an app would be a plus.

Your home screen should only have apps you use and you can hide the rest in the apps list pages (usually sorted alphabetically). While I have a bunch of useless/crappy apps I never see them as the apps I do use are right on one of the 3 home pages I can swipe through.I will try that blotware trick mentioned above but I have found that many did not have a disable option when I checked in the past. If you try to uninstall it says "uninstall updates" and that does nothing except allow it to download the updates again!

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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Jul 30, 2013
Your home screen should only have apps you use and you can hide the rest in the apps list pages (usually sorted alphabetically). While I have a bunch of useless/crappy apps I never see them as the apps I do use are right on one of the 3 home pages I can swipe through.
I will try that blotware trick mentioned above but I have found that many did not have a disable option when I checked in the past. If you try to uninstall it says "uninstall updates" and that does nothing except allow it to download the updates again!
jrs1871
Explorer
Jul 30, 2013
Yes I do have an android phone. VZ Navigator is a prime example of the bloatware but there is a whole bunch of that garbage that I will never use. I will check out Yelp.
I will also see if I can hide the unwanted garbage. The first 1 1/2 pages of apps is stuff I don't or won't use. Even though it won't be gone, just not having to page through it every time I am looking for an app would be a plus.
donn0128
Explorer II
Jul 30, 2013
Go to manage apps, select each app you do not want and select it, you should find buttons to force stop, clear data and,disable. Select disable. Thats the best you can do. At least it stops the bloatware from downloading updates wasting your time and bandwidth.
bwanshoom
Explorer
Jul 30, 2013
(I'm assuming you have an Android, which may or may not be true)

For the apps that you can't uninstall, sounds like you're referring to "bloatware" - stuff you don't want/need, but can't get rid off. VZ Navigator is a prime example. If you got an update to your phone you might find new bloatware has been added. Depending on which version of the OS you have you may be able to disable these or if you get a new launcher you can hide them so you never have to see them.

Google Local (née Places) is now part of Google+. Google has a habit of revamping their apps, renaming them, integrating them, retiring them with little or no warning. That's just the way they do things.

Yelp is a very popular app that has similar capabilities to the old Places/Local.
rk911
Explorer
Jul 30, 2013
jrs1871 wrote:
I guess it is bound to happen. You grant your cell phone provider (and many apps) access to your phone and strange things happen. I now have apps on my Verizon phone, that were not there when I purchased it. I have absolutely no use for probably 3/4 of them but Verizon tells me they can't be uninstalled. And I know that when I select apps to uninstall, they are not listed. Any tricks to how these apps might be deleted?
On the other hand, apps that I liked and used have suddenly disappeared. I really liked the app, first named places and then changed to local, that we used to look up any number of things when we were in, or coming into, a strange town. Now it seems to be gone. I can still use google maps to find places but it doesn't work as smoothly in my opinion.
I tried downloading an app, called local places I think, but I could not get it to work like I was hoping. For instance, say I was going to Des Moines, I could use places to look up restaurants, specific stores, etc. I just had to input "VFW in Des Moines area". With the one I downloaded all it gives me is stuff with in fifty miles of my current location. Are you aware of another app that would work like local did or is there some way to change the setting on other apps that purport to do the same thing.

in the case of the iPhone each time apple upgrades the OS that upgrade includes new system apps. sometimes the "new" app is merely renamed, sometimes a new app is created from an existing app and sometimes the new app is just new. android probably does the same. as to how to delete those pesky system apps...a google search turned up lots of information about that. personally I simply group all of those unwanted apps into a separate folder and place that folder on the last page of our iPhones.

in the case of disappearing apps, again referencing apple products since that is what we use, once you download an app it remains in your account until deleted. your account is managed thru the iTunes on your PC/Mac. if you have synced your iPhone using iTunes it is a simple matter to reinstall the missing app to your phone.

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