I wanted to remove the ZTE Calendar, Clock, and Email. You can choose to delete or keep whatever you please.

First, write

adb devices and ensure that something is listed (usually a mix of letters and numbers)

Then adb shell (to get access to your phone)

Now, you can run these commands

pm uninstall -k — user 0 ‘com.android.deskclock’

pm uninstall -k — user 0 ‘com.android.calendar’

pm uninstall -k — user 0 ‘com.android.email’

pm uninstall -k — user 0 ‘com.google.android.apps.tachyon’

The last package I mentioned happens to be the APK of Google Duo. Don’t ask me why they chose that specific name. It also appears that medium formatted the dashes incorrectly. after k, there should be a space and then a double dash ( — ) connected to the word user.

If you deleted something and would like to recover

adb shell cmd package install-existing<name of package>

To find packages that match certain text, for example, apps with email in their package name

pm list packages | grep ‘email’

These were all system apps, so we can’t completely uninstall them. If you were to factory reset your phone, these apps would “most likely” return to your phone.

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