Removing your app from Play Store is even easier for regular users. Just log into your account, navigate to My apps & games > App Name and configure “Uninstall” . Almost like magic – now you can use Google Play store as a simple way to remove any application… but not everything is that smooth:
How do you remove your account and all of its data from Google Play? Unless you want to delete the app entirely, there is no way. Why? Because you are not a developer – this is the most frustrating thing because it doesn’t make any sense. To be honest, Google should give us the ability to do so, because some users might really not need their accounts anymore (they’re planning to stop using Android or just don’t need Google Play).
I have an idea. How about letting me remove my personal information from web store and then resetting my password back to “inactive”? Then I can create new account with same email address and choose whether I will connect it with existing publisher’s account or start as fresh beginner in Android development… This way it would be very easy to create a new account and start to rebuild my portfolio with new apps or at least improve my rating.
How about you? How do you think Google Play should deal with accounts of inactive users? Please share your opinions in comments below.
Solutions: Contacting Google support directly (really) or collecting information from this blog post will help you learn how to remove Google Play presence completely (with associated account). You may have the option for opening a web store page for any app that you are developer of, even if it’s unpublished. Please note that removing your app from web store is only step 1 – the next article is coming soon…
This morning, one of my friends told me that he had deleted a game from Google Play while playing it on his mobile phone yesterday. He didn’t remember doing so and even thought the game was still on his device. I started looking into this behavior, I found out if you have ever played a game in your life, there is almost no way to get rid of it from your Android phone or tablet totally. You can uninstall the app all right but not remove any data inside the app’s directory unless you root your device.
I sent an email to ask Google about what happens after deleting an installed application and got the following answer: “When you delete an app from your phone, it stops showing up on your Android device. It also remains in the Google Play Store and is available for reinstallation.” However, according to my experiment, I got a different answer.
Yesterday before going to bed, I played several games including Game of War: Fire Age (a game downloaded from Apple’s App Store) with my Nexus 7 tablet. In the morning when getting up to take a bath, I found that my tablet had rebooted itself during night and many apps were out of sight, so was Game of War: Fire Age. So I decided to uninstall the app completely by using Google Play’s delete function. To my surprise, there was still a folder inside an existing directory named “com2us” that contains several files with obscure names. I tried to open it and found the app information is still there, including the game progress, scores, etc. It says “Game of War (com2us)” inside the title bar.
I don’t have a Nexus device myself so I asked my colleagues to help me test several devices which are running Android 4.3 and the results are still the same: even if you delete an app, it will be existed in your phone unless you root it to get rid of all data inside the app’s directory manually.
To remove individual app or game from your Android device, open the Google Play Store App and navigate to Menu where you can find My Apps & Games. From there, tap on the app or game you want to uninstall and then tap Uninstall.
From the Android TV Home screen, scroll to Downloaded Apps. Select your desired app to delete and select Uninstall.
To delete Google Play Games, click on the service and then click Delete.Click OK to confirm that you want to delete this data.
You can delete apps on your Android phone through the settings app and remove them from your home screen by dropping them into the app drawer.If you delete an application entirely, its data will also be deleted. If you wish to use that application again, you’ll need to reinstall it.
To uninstall this system app, you need to root your phone, which will grant you the privileges of a superuser.
To uninstall Google apps on Android, open the Settings app and tap Apps. Tap the app you want to uninstall and then tap Uninstall.
Yes, deleting an app is the same as uninstalling it. When you delete an app, its files and data are removed from your device.
You can uninstall Google Apps, but you won’t be able to use the Gmail, Calendar, or other Google Apps services. To uninstall Google Apps, go to your Control Panel and uninstall the “Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook” application.
To delete a game on your phone, first, open the game. Then, press the “Menu” button and select “Delete.
To delete Google Play apps from your computer, you can uninstall them like any other program. To do this, open the Control Panel and search for “uninstall a program.” From there, you can select the Google Play app and uninstall it.
