Remove apps from MY APPS list???

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As per the title, does anyone know how to remove apps from your Play Store account? Because it seems to me we are stuck with the list of apps we have ever used or trialled in the past, and of course the dross that simply doesn't work or crashes your phone.

No real problems I hear you say, but after a new ROM install or whatever, it's a pain in the neck having to go through the list and select which apps you want to install amongst all of the schiyte you don't need any more. It'd be nice to tidy up and delete the unused ones, and then just press 'install all' after a factory wipe and just get the ones you actually need or still use.

Surely there must be a way to do this?
 
Nope, no known way at this point, it became even more irritating when they started basing recommendations against apps that you had installed for 30 seconds.

Although why do you even bother with that list after a new ROM, that's what Titanium Backup is for. Gets my phone back up and running with all my apps in about 15 minutes, Apex launcher does a nice backup of itself so all my icons are restored, just up to me to put my widgets back and we done, from format to golden in less than 30 minutes.
 
CranialBlaze said:
Nope, no known way at this point, it became even more irritating when they started basing recommendations against apps that you had installed for 30 seconds.

Although why do you even bother with that list after a new ROM, that's what Titanium Backup is for. Gets my phone back up and running with all my apps in about 15 minutes, Apex launcher does a nice backup of itself so all my icons are restored, just up to me to put my widgets back and we done, from format to golden in less than 30 minutes.
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No, sure thing and I do use Titanium, but for example I went from CM9 to CM10 today so had to do a factory reset and wipe. So ICS to JB and they said in the thread not to use Titanium backups.
 
Spizz said:
No, sure thing and I do use Titanium, but for example I went from CM9 to CM10 today so had to do a factory reset and wipe. So ICS to JB and they said in the thread not to use Titanium backups.
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That just seems really odd thing to not do, personally I would not of bothered with that update then, not worth the effort.
 
CranialBlaze said:
That just seems really odd thing to not do, personally I would not of bothered with that update then, not worth the effort.
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Well I'm quite keen to get onto the CM10 nighties and that was the first one today. And once on it and happy there is no need for any wiping and restoring of anything.

So now I'm on it and got all of my apps on it, I just to make a nandroid
and I can jump back and forward between ics and jb without the hassles again. It makes sense to me and if you want to go from ics to JB then you'll have to do it too surely?
 
Spizz said:
Well I'm quite keen to get onto the CM10 nighties and that was the first one today. And once on it and happy there is no need for any wiping and restoring of anything.

So now I'm on it and got all of my apps on it, I just to make a nandroid
and I can jump back and forward between ics and jb without the hassles again. It makes sense to me and if you want to go from ics to JB then you'll have to do it too surely?
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Not with the hard brick bug plagueing samsung, would have to flash to cm9 first, then to cm10 only to deal with endless bugs. More than happy to wait for the official, especially when there are no major improvements. Besides had my run through with CM9, by the time they got it stable enough to actually use properly the official had been on vodacom for a month.

Official rollout of JB for samsung begins next month, will grab the German copy as soon as its out, that way no need to worry with buggy unofficial copies.
 
CranialBlaze said:
Not with the hard brick bug plagueing samsung, would have to flash to cm9 first, then to cm10 only to deal with endless bugs. More than happy to wait for the official, especially when there are no major improvements. Besides had my run through with CM9, by the time they got it stable enough to actually use properly the official had been on vodacom for a month.

Official rollout of JB for samsung begins next month, will grab the German copy as soon as its out, that way no need to worry with buggy unofficial copies.
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Fair enough bud. I just enjoy the tinkering about and have no problem putting up with the odd bug over the Samsung bloat. I had stock 4.0.4 on my Note which was nice enough, but the S2 has a much bigger scene and it's hard not to dip your toe in now and again :)

But on topic, it's really odd that google haven't thought of this or haven't got the inclination to do anything about it. That app list is going to be so astronomical after a few years of android phones, i'm now thinking twice about what apps I want to download and have a look at.
 
Spizz said:
As per the title, does anyone know how to remove apps from your Play Store account? Because it seems to me we are stuck with the list of apps we have ever used or trialled in the past, and of course the dross that simply doesn't work or crashes your phone.
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Can someone explain to me what the problem is here ^.

Obviously not the actual uninstall of trialled/tested/etc apps, but removing from the store list? I don't see a list in Play that show previous apps and then there's "My Apps" showing currently installed apps. I have 2.3.4 Android if that change anything.
 
cpu. said:
Can someone explain to me what the problem is here ^.

Obviously not the actual uninstall of trialled/tested/etc apps, but removing from the store list? I don't see a list in Play that show previous apps and then there's "My Apps" showing currently installed apps. I have 2.3.4 Android if that change anything.
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On the play store on my phone, I can select My Apps, and from this there is a list of apps 'installed', and a list of 'all'. So when I have a fresh install, there are only a few apps installed along with the rom, then all of the user apps will be in the 'all' list and I have to select the ones I want to install individually.

Also on your PC there is a list of all of your apps if you are signed in to google, and it is here where it would make sense to be able to remove unused ones.
 
Spizz said:
On the play store on my phone, I can select My Apps, and from this there is a list of apps 'installed', and a list of 'all'. So when I have a fresh install, there are only a few apps installed along with the rom, then all of the user apps will be in the 'all' list and I have to select the ones I want to install individually.

Also on your PC there is a list of all of your apps if you are signed in to google, and it is here where it would make sense to be able to remove unused ones.
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I missed the "All" list under My Apps and didn't know about the list when signed in on PC. Thanks.
 
It takes so freaking long to do it.
Delete one, list refreshes, scroll till your finger is numb, delete next, repeat process.

How hard would it have been to give us a multi select option, or a tab just for uninstalled, or a filter, blah.

I have been using Android for years and My Apps is long.
 
Mike Smit said:
It takes so freaking long to do it.
Delete one, list refreshes, scroll till your finger is numb, delete next, repeat process.

How hard would it have been to give us a multi select option, or a tab just for uninstalled, or a filter, blah.

I have been using Android for years and My Apps is long.
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Well I assume it was not too hard as they put it in, long press on 1 of the deletable items and it switches into multi-select mode. You can then single tap everything and hit the delete button in the top g
 
CranialBlaze said:
Go to your apps list on your phone, the answer should be obvious
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ya I dont see it...
What version you using?
Running Jellybean (polish version) on my GS3, google play, build version 3.8.17

Edit
updated to the latest version manually. On this site it shows multi selecting apps but I can't seem to do more then one. Unless the app is currently installed.
 
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