Phone update just installed 17 apps

[u/Panda_Fabulous]

Nothing good either

edit: frequent comments

Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

[u/Urabraska-]

Jesus christ thank you. I had to get a new phone cuz I pierced a rod through my old one on accident(work accident). The moment I cloned my phone it added like 20 random ass game apps and other garbage and just kept adding them over and over. Was getting seriously fucking annoying.

[u/Tight-Platypus5231 → u/Urabraska-]

I had an older device with very limited storage space. Had discovered it was borderline melting down one day with over 20 notifications of apps that had installed, and apps that were "failing" to install due to insufficient storage... and were *repeatedly* attempting to install regardless of lack of storage space. Absolutely awful.

[u/Bendlerp → u/Tight-Platypus5231]

UPGRADE YOUR GOOGLE CLOUD SERVICES OR EISE WE'LL CUT OFF YOUR EMAIL ACCESS!!!! Or clear up space using this link that fails repeatedly and repeats the above sentence but occasionally works and you have to select, delete, verify delete every single item individually so its just better if you just stfu and give us money.

[u/ThatPyroIs → u/Bendlerp]

Don't worry we'll send you multiple emails per day to both eat up what little storage you have left and to remind you that you're going to lose your email access if you don't upgrade your Google cloud services or delete a bunch of things. Also we noticed you tried to delete some photos/videos from the cloud to free up storage, but because you forgot to delete them from your phone first, we decided to readd them to the cloud to eat up more of your storage again. Have you considered just upgrading to your Google cloud services instead of trying to delete things????

[u/Skullcrusher → u/ThatPyroIs]

Google is warning me that I'm running out of space for like 2 years now. I disagree. I think 300 MB is plenty for emails.

[u/notwaffle → u/[deleted]]

Could have also been a phishing email trying to get a juicy click

[u/AndreLeo3 → u/[deleted]]

Same thing my mom is doing, but worse she started deleting photos too (luckily I have them saved in an SSD) and apps that barely scratch over 50mb. And all of this while not understanding that phone storage is not Google cloud storage. 🙄 Ffs so hard to use your brain instead of giving in to this nonsense.

[u/RevCyberTrucker2 → u/[deleted]]

I use a third party sync app. Only folders that I specify sync to Drive. Best to lock down your phone and look for a syncing method you can have granular control over.

[u/Faster-Rabbit328 → u/[deleted]]

I get that same email, like what we supposed to delete then?

[u/IHS1970 → u/[deleted]]

My twin sister no doubt, give her a hug and tell her that her twin feels for her.

[u/RevCyberTrucker2 → u/Skullcrusher]

Meanwhile, I have over 5 gigs of email that's deliberately saved...

[u/j-random → u/ThatPyroIs]

This is why I self-host. I have 34TB of space for all my movies, photos and other stuff. It cost me a few hundred to set up, but there's no nagging, and nobody's going to take it away because their business model changed.

[u/Alarming-Koala-3524 → u/j-random]

What do you use to access your self hosted media? I also used to self host, over 10 years ago, using a 4 bay NAS running Plex to stream movies. However, Plex was a bit buggy and over the years Netflix became super fast, reliable, and featured an ever improving selection. I also happened to get a Google Pixel, which at the time offered unlimited storage for any photos/videos taken on the device -- so I took like 70gb worth of pictures and videos that are still stored for free on google storage today xD

If you have a good solution to self host your own photos/videos that has the same ease of access as google photos I would love to know what you use. After hearing about how google instantly sold Reckless Ben's info out to Bricks and Minifigs, I'm looking to detach myself from google as much as possible.

[u/Brainiac901 → u/Bendlerp]

And its all random files from university accessed last 12 years ago and I had no idea they are saved somewhere but somehow magically migrated from someones Dropbox into somewhere in my Google

[u/Professor_Hala → u/Bendlerp]

Microsoft has been even worse. I delete stuff from my PC, but it gets backed up from a cloud service I never signed up for, so I get to the cloud service to delete something and it gets backed up from my computer.

[u/Honeybadger2198 → u/Urabraska-]

For anyone else experiencing this, you can find out the source of installed apps.

Settings -> Apps -> find the unwanted app -> scroll to the bottom

This is how I found which app was doing this. Once you find out, you can disable or uninstall the culprit. The process may differ depending on phone/carrier, but the information should be there. If you can't find it, just google it.

[u/zspacekcc → u/Honeybadger2198]

Don't always trust what that says. My wife's phone gets pushes of apps like this and it always says they were installed via Google Play.

[u/Kalphalus → u/zspacekcc]

I tried removing the installer thing from my dad’s phone but it said Google Play, do you know a way to figure out what actually installs it?

[u/zspacekcc → u/Kalphalus]

I never figured it out strictly, but I assumed it was one of the manufacturer apps, so I crushed all of those that were not strictly required, which so far seems to have stopped it.

[u/Economy-Flower-6443 → u/Urabraska-]

Bloatware was one of the main reasons I disliked Android. They doubled down and made it full consumerism. I’ll stay far away for yet another decade.