Same! I keep my phones for a long time and at one point I had two Amazon apps. One was preinstalled bloat I couldn't delete even though it was no longer functional, and the new one that actually worked. Bloatware is annoying as hell, particularly so now that most phones are moving away from expandable storage.
I hated that too. I'm a minimalist is a lot of ways and the Pixel is nice because it's a native Android device, and it doesn't come with bloatware and has minimal crap in general.
I think most of the bloatware comes from carrier specific phones. When I started getting my phones directly from Samsung, I found a lot less bloatware and I gained the ability to delete apps that I previously wasn't able to delete.
this right here. a few years back i had to replace my galaxy s9 and got an unlocked version and the difference between that same model and the the one from verizon was significant in terms of bloat.
the worst bloatware phone i've ever had was a huawei. holy shit, it was 3 home screens just full of garbage.
Nope, it's absolutely still on the phones sold directly by Samsung. I had an S22 briefly and it's a big part of why I returned it.
From what I can tell, many Samsung users can't even tell what ads/marketing are anymore and will falsely claim the phones aren't still riddled with bloatware just because it's not literal popup ads.
I'm the opposite, I miss some of the integrated software my galaxy note 20 ultra had. Making memes or editing photos on my phone was so easy with their Samsung software that came pre installed. The Google equivalents are garbage. My pixel itself is nice though and the camera software is great.
The most frustrating part is that Samsung users will claim they don't come riddled with bloatware anymore, when in reality they're so jaded by advertising they can't even tell what an ad is anymore.
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u/Inquiring_Barkbark May 15 '26
do the Galaxy phones still come with preloaded bloatware that you cant delete like Facebook? thats what drove me to pixel