All mobiles on the market have system apps that are pre-installed at the factory, that’s something that no one escapes us. And there are many problems that arise associated with this type of apps for our mobiles, especially due to the updates they receive. We tell you how to recover these deleted system apps on a Realme .
Realme UI 2.0 is the new version of the Chinese firm’s mobile customization layer, which is based on Android 11. It is prepared to offer us numerous new functions, which give us access to new facets of the terminal.
Why recover system apps?
The apps of our operating system on the mobile are usually divided into two large groups, which we can download and install from the Play Store, which are easily retrievable from our Google account at any time. And those that come pre-installed in the operating system of our mobile, in the manufacturer’s customization layer. These usually usually arrive in a basic version, which is usually updated over time with different new versions.
If we reset the phone, the normal thing is that we return to the original version that came with the phone. While for many system apps are always useful, and others that usually come with factory phones as well, there are those who see it more as bloatware , a way of imposing on us numerous apps that are not of our interest precisely for purely commercial interests . Depending on the market and the mobile, there are Realme phones that come with some pre-installed apps that can be erased.
Not all of them can be deleted, but there are some that can be uninstalled if we are not interested in having them in the application drawer of our mobile phone. Well, in the event that there is an app installed on the phone that we have deleted, and it is one of the ones that come pre-installed with us, there is the option to recover them . This opens the possibility of accessing those apps again without having to download them again. What the Realme mobile does at that moment is to recover the application from the partition where the operating system is housed and therefore all the apps that are factory installed on the phone.
In this way we can recover applications without complications and when we need it. It is a different way of providing flexibility to such a closed aspect of mobile phones as that of pre-installed system apps. And yes, Realme now has in the second generation of its customization layer with a native method to be able to recover those pre-installed apps even after we have uninstalled them from the phone. So we don’t have to be tied to them if we don’t use them. We cannot say that we are going to recover storage space when deleting them, or lose it when recovering them with this tool, because the content of these will always be taking up space in the recovery partition of the operating system.
How are these apps recovered?
As we say, Realme UI 2.0 has added a new functionality in its layer to be able to recover uninstalled system apps, or as we have said before, what is understood as bloatware, those installed apps that are not essential like other system ones, for example administrators of files, phone apps, internet browsing apps and many others. Now in the application management section we have this new feature , which is undoubtedly very interesting, and we can manage it in this simple way:
- Access your Realme settings
- Select “Application Management”
- Go to “Recover system applications”
Within this menu we can see a list of the pre-installed apps that you have previously uninstalled. To retrieve them you have to click on the button that appears next to them , with the text “install”. That way the apps will be available again on our Realme mobile without having to download the application again. It is possible that depending on the Realme mobile model that we have, apps will appear in this section, or on the contrary, we will not see any. Logically everything depends on whether we have uninstalled one before, otherwise it is evident that none of these applications will appear to be able to uninstall them.
Depending on the markets in which Realme is present, apps may or may not appear in this section. Since it all depends on the amount of bloatware that the manufacturers add. In this case, Realme is not particularly aggressive in this regard in Europe, but in the event that you come across an application of this type on your Realme mobile, you can always get rid of them in this way. It is true that it is a function that remedies a situation that is not usually too common, but it is appreciated that the Chinese firm offers us this type of solutions, that shows quite a lot that it is not a manufacturer that tries to monopolize the software of our device with your bloatware.
Go back in time with system apps
As you know, system applications can be recovered from their initial configuration, or rather, return to their original state, to the version that comes in the phone’s home partition. This is something that has come in handy for many of us with the problem caused by ” System Webview ” on numerous Android phones a few weeks ago. For this, what we have to do is the following:
- Long press the icon for which you want to uninstall the updates
- Select “Info”
- Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right
- Select “Uninstall updates”
In this way we will recover the original system app, the first version that worked on the phone. This is very useful to solve problems with some apps that are causing problems when they have been updated to a new version that is causing problems. One way, together with the Realme deleted app recovery tool, that allows us to have more control over these types of apps on the phone.