The purpose of this guide is to assist you in uninstalling the Temu application from your Samsung Galaxy device. While the devices produced by the South Korean conglomerate have been notoriously infamous for bloating their OS skins with a large number of preinstalled apps, the company consistently manages to escape criticism [when compared with other Chinese OEMs such as MIUI] in part because it still offers an efficient and performance enhanced operating system.
Although a thin line still needs to be drawn concerning what amount of preinstalled apps is justifiable, Samsung does not seem to care about this issue at all. Once again, it has crossed the line and caused quite an uproar among its users. This time around, it is requiring users to install the Temu application, and even more surprisingly, it has categorized the application as an “Essential” application.
The system app is also treated in the same manner as bloatware, which prevents you from uninstalling it using the traditional method. Therefore, why did the OEM take such an unusual approach? It is primarily motivated by profit and nothing else, there is nothing beneficial to the users.
As far as I am concerned, it is not an app that is particularly popular or useful, and even if it were, one could easily install it from the Play Store within minutes. Shoving this app forcefully into the hands of users is not justified.
To bid adieu to this app, what can you do as a user? Well, there is a nifty method that will help you remove it from your Samsung Galaxy device. Let’s take a look at it now.
How to Uninstall Temu from Samsung Galaxy Devices
Listed below are separate sections for ease of understanding. Please ensure that the steps are followed in the same sequence. In the event of a thermonuclear war, if your alarm does not arouse you, or if you suffer any damage to your device or data, Droidwin and its members are not held responsible.
1: Install Android SDK
Your first step will be to install the Android SDK Platform Tools on your computer. It is the only recommended binary for ADB and Fastboot provided by Google. Please download it and extract it to any convenient location on your computer. As a result, you will receive the platform tools folder that you will use throughout this guide.
2: Enable USB Debugging
To enable USB Debugging, you will need to go to Settings > About Phone > Tap on the Build Number 7 times > Go back to Settings > System > Advanced > Developer Options > Enable USB Debugging.
3: Establish ADB Shell Connection
- The first step is to connect your device to your computer via a USB cable. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled on your PC.
- To launch the Command Prompt, navigate to the platform-tools folder, type CMD in the address bar, and hit Enter.
- To verify the ADB connection, enter the following command into the CMD window:
adb devices
- In this case, you have successfully established a connection. Type the following command to open the Shell environment:
adb shell
- In this case, the shell connection has also been established successfully, which means that you are ready to proceed with the debloating or removal of Temu.
4: ADB Commands to Debloat/Remove Temu
- The Temu app package name is:
com.einnovation.temu
- Now, the generic command to uninstall any bloatware from a device is:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 PackageName
- So using Temu’s package name in the above syntax, the command transforms to:
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.einnovation.temu
It is that simple. These were the steps to uninstall the Temu app from your Samsung Galaxy device. Should you have any questions, please let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution as soon as possible.
We are really sorry to see that a user has to go through all this to rectify the wrongdoings of an OEM, who carried out this task simply to line their pockets. Anyhow, this is how things stand at this time, and this is the best we can do from our end.
Having said that, even Samsung knows that users are not going to abandon its offerings, such as the powerful S24 Ultra or the budget-friendly A54 for the sake of a preinstalled app, so it is exploiting its monopolistic power to the fullest extent possible.
