Thanks for this! A couple notes I learned:

1. I had to type ".\adb.exe" instead of just "adb" to get this to work in windows powershell

2. I had to use the syntax "--user" instead of "-user", otherwise it would report the error "unknown option -u"

Thank you. Using syntax "--user" instead of "-user" like Cleeve said it was straight forward to follow these instructions and get rid of bloatware off my Android phone. This is a useful page.

successfully removed amazon.ca app from my galaxy note8, but problem starts now that i cannot instal amazon shopping upi(india) app. the device did not instal it neither from play store nor by apk. used every trick of deleting cache and data from play store. can any one help

Does this also deletes the data off the application? Say youtube is 152 mb? Do you get this memory back onto your internal memory?

Hi I tried to remove some apps but it says that there is an error "unknown option: -- user". What does it mean ?

Thanks

Which system apps are unnecessary/necessary? Squeaking my nexus 6p along as long as possible .

Amazing work here. Been trying to figure out how to remove bloatware apps forever, and finally stumbled across this page which worked perfectly (once I figured out the em-dash before user was actually a double dash - - [without the space]).