Open console in a directory where you unpacked platform tools.Choose “File Transfer” mode instead of default “No data transfer”. Connect the phone to your computer via USB.⚙️ Settings - Additional settings - Developer Options - USB debugging.⚙️ Settings - About phone(or My Device).If you are using chocolatey package manager, you can get both like that:Ĭhoco install -y adb universal-adb-drivers If you are on Windows, you also need USB drivers for your device. You can download the recent one for your OS here. To manage phone from command-line via USB you need adb - Android Debug Bridge, part of Android platform-tools. NOTE: I do not guarantee that this instructions won’t break your phone, blow it to flaming pieces or cause a sentient machines rebellion against humanity.

Thanks to this very useful but severely under-voted stackoverflow answer. Works for MIUI 11 and 12 (based on Android 9 and 10), should work for other phones for recent Android versions. Here is how to remove or disable unnecessary software without rooting phone. You can not uninstall this pre-installed apps like usual ones, and you can not even disable them from settings like in earlier Android versions. It eats battery and memory, sometimes shows annoying advertisement, and may have security issues. UPDATE Added some apps, thanks to Updated list of apps, thanks to new comments by phones have impressive parameters for given price, but they come with a lot of unnecessary software. TLDR: If you just want the list of bloatware app package names for Xiaomi MIUI - scroll to the end of the artice.

Android bloatware list