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Remove apps from Google Play Account
- Thread starter Pep
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I agree that this "feature" of Google Play Store really sucks. Given that Google refuses to give us easy ways around this huge inconvenience, I have settled on this procedure:
1. Install a backup program. I'm currently using Titanium, but My Backup Pro and others will also work.
2. Backup all your apps and data to your sdcard.
3. This step is optional: put the APK file for your backup program onto the sdcard, as well.
4. Factory reset, new phone, new ROM, etc.
5. Mount your sdcard on the device, if it isn't already there.
6. If you performed step 3, navigate to the sdcard and install the backup program. Otherwise, re-install it from the Play Store.
7. Use it to restore the apps you saved on your sdcard.
This gets the new phone, ROM, etc. into the same state, app-wise, as the previous version. After this, none of your uninstalled and unused apps in the Play Store will be presented to you during application auto-updates.
Yeah, this can be a PITA. But it does save the trouble of going through the Play Store and selecting apps one by one.
1. Install a backup program. I'm currently using Titanium, but My Backup Pro and others will also work.
2. Backup all your apps and data to your sdcard.
3. This step is optional: put the APK file for your backup program onto the sdcard, as well.
4. Factory reset, new phone, new ROM, etc.
5. Mount your sdcard on the device, if it isn't already there.
6. If you performed step 3, navigate to the sdcard and install the backup program. Otherwise, re-install it from the Play Store.
7. Use it to restore the apps you saved on your sdcard.
This gets the new phone, ROM, etc. into the same state, app-wise, as the previous version. After this, none of your uninstalled and unused apps in the Play Store will be presented to you during application auto-updates.
Yeah, this can be a PITA. But it does save the trouble of going through the Play Store and selecting apps one by one.
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androidmehta
Lurker
Forget it.
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Deleted User
Guest
Page need a password and user name.
Thanks this works for me.as i am able to delete the app list from my from phone so is from play.google account.
eh? On Play WEBSITE or on Device? About as clear as mud that post is!
Ibreakphones
Newbie
AGREED!!! I just upgraded to a new phone and dont want to go through and install one by one, why they wouldnt have a way to upload all your apps to your new phone is beyond me!!
JimSmith94
Android Enthusiast
My Google account keeps track of my apps, and my Play Store apps reinstall automatically. Amazon App Store apps don't however, but the paid version of Titanium Backup will restore everything at once.
Jim is right
... but don't press on that strikethrough circle icon on the right side, long press on the left side at the app's icon instead.
And selecting the rest goes the same, but just tap (not long press ! ) on the left side at the app's icon.
When you've all apps selected then tap on the strikethrough circle icon at the upper right corner to delete them
Harry
Thank you so very much! I must have saved 70 years by using that!
meganearlitz
Lurker
I found a way if you have Google Play Version 3.10.9 Now this is on your Android Device not the computer itself.
1. Click On the Play Store
2. Menu
3. My Apps
4. Flick to the left where it says All and then scroll all the way down to where some apps you know are not on your phone and click the little cirlcle thing with the slash through it. It says something like, "Remove "what ever the name of the app is" from my Apps" then click OK.
5. Go to your website and see the All and see if it worked for you!
It's working out for me, But I wish on the actual website we could do this instead of doing it one at a time.
1. Click On the Play Store
2. Menu
3. My Apps
4. Flick to the left where it says All and then scroll all the way down to where some apps you know are not on your phone and click the little cirlcle thing with the slash through it. It says something like, "Remove "what ever the name of the app is" from my Apps" then click OK.
5. Go to your website and see the All and see if it worked for you!
It's working out for me, But I wish on the actual website we could do this instead of doing it one at a time.
meganearlitz
Lurker
@meganearlitz, just in the post above your post, there is discribed the way to tag multiple apps on the All list and remove them all at once
Harry
Harry I tried to do that and it wouldn't let me. It just selects and opens the dang app.
Harry2
Extreme Android User
Strange ... in another thread a poster has the same issue ... and not a solution yet.
So you might try this:
If you can't reach this multi-select mode, you might uninstall the Play Store app's updates and updates it again.
Settings, Apps, All, Google Play Store, Uninstall updates ...
Harry
So you might try this:
If you can't reach this multi-select mode, you might uninstall the Play Store app's updates and updates it again.
Settings, Apps, All, Google Play Store, Uninstall updates ...
Harry
meganearlitz
Lurker
I could remove them, just not doing that whole long press and selecting thing.
I had to remove them one by one. It was a pain in the butt, but I got it.
Thank god so when I get my new phone in a few weeks it wont install all that crap that I don't need. I have been slowly deleting stuff that I haven't used in a while as well.
They are not showing up on my account if I were to look up my account on a regular computer so I thank god for that. But I still wish I could go onto the google play store on the actual computer and do it that way.
I've done this, however in google play under my account, my orders, it still shows apps from back when I had the G1. It also still shows every phone/ROM combination I've ever had under Settings as different devices.
There is no way to delete your past downloads in the online version of google play
There is no way to delete your past downloads in the online version of google play
ForkliftFred
Member
I cleared my old apps via my device as described above (I did them one at a time because there weren't a huge amount) and they no longer appear in the Google Play website either.
"Other apps in my library" is empty and nothing extra is listed under "My Orders" either. I wonder if this is because I have never paid for any apps. I can understand Google not deleting apps from your list if you have purchased them because if you want to reinstall them you would then have to pay again, but it doesn't matter with free apps.
I suspect all the free apps you removed are no longer listed but the paid ones are still there.
"Other apps in my library" is empty and nothing extra is listed under "My Orders" either. I wonder if this is because I have never paid for any apps. I can understand Google not deleting apps from your list if you have purchased them because if you want to reinstall them you would then have to pay again, but it doesn't matter with free apps.
I suspect all the free apps you removed are no longer listed but the paid ones are still there.
Harry2
Extreme Android User
Even the paid apps can be removed from the All list ... it's just a list
But Google remembers your paid apps, you can install them without to purchase them again.
Harry
It's not that
I have never paid for an app, and I have followed the directions to remove all the apps I don't actually use, and on google play online there are tons and tons still on the list that range from an app that I downloaded for 15 seconds before deleting them, to apps I used for a year, but back in 2009. There is no way for me to get rid of them unfortunately.