Cancellare le app inutili da PC e smartphone è sempre una buona idea, ma non sempre è possibile: ecco quali app non potrai mai disinstallare da PC e smartphone
Tutti i produttori di computer, sia desktop che laptop, e di smartphone da diversi anni riempiono i dispositivi che vendono di applicazioni preinstallate. Lo fa anche Apple, sia sugli iPhone e iPad che sui Mac. Quando compriamo un nuovo dispositivo, stiamo comprando anche un sacco di app preinstallate. Il problema è che spesso queste app non servono a molto.
A volte non servono proprio a nulla e non solo sono preinstallate, ma sono anche le app di default per aprire alcuni file o svolgere alcuni compiti. Ad esempio su Windows il browser di default è ormai Edge, mentre sui prodotti Apple è Safari. There are also a lot of other apps installed by “minor” manufacturers: many of them now sell us computers and smartphones with a whole ecosystem of apps all connected to each other, which work reasonably well (because they obviously talk to each other perfectly) but only if you use them all. But what if we want to uninstall them because we don’t like using them? Unfortunately, it’s not always possible to do so.
Which Apple apps you can’t delete
Apple is the borderline case: its products arrive at our homes with many apps installed. And many of them you can’t delete: Safari, Stock Exchange, News, Siri, Calculator and even the chess game. All of these apps are pre-installed on Apple devices, they are the default apps for their respective tasks and cannot be deleted. We can choose to use other apps to perform the same tasks (e.g. use Firefox instead of Safari as the default browser), but we’re forced to keep them parked on the device even if we don’t need them for anything.
Which Android apps you can’t delete
On Android things aren’t any better, but the situation is more varied because there are many more hardware manufacturers. As a general rule, we won’t be able to delete Chrome or all the apps that are strictly related to our Google account, such as Contacts and Drive, but we can only deactivate them. And so we’ll have to keep them in memory, gathering digital dust. Every brand that produces Android devices, then, blocks the deletion of many of its apps. Usually these manufacturers pre-install on their devices a media player, a gallery app for photos and videos, and sometimes even a contacts app. Even if we want to uninstall them, you don’t have the permissions to do so. And the only solution is to keep them in our digital oblivion.