android-debloat-list/aosp.json

[
    {
        "id": "android",
        "description": "Android System\nAndroid system framework? Apk file name: framework-res\nCould be THE core of the android system.\nProbably very unsafe to disable.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.aosp.overlay",
        "description": "Refers to the Runtime Resource Overlay (RRO) framework that is built into the AOSP.\nRRO allows for the dynamic modification of an app's resources at runtime,\nEnabling the customization of the app's appearance and behavior without modifying its source code\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/rros",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.auto_generated_rro__",
        "label": "android.auto_generated_rro__",
        "description": "RRO = Runtime Resources Overlay. Changes values of a package config, based in the overlay definitions. Overlays are heavily used by OEMs to customize the look and feel of Android.",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/rros",
            "https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-theme-android-with-the-runtime-resource-overlay-framework--cms-29708"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.auto_generated_rro_product__",
        "label": "android.auto_generated_rro_product__",
        "description": "RRO = Runtime Resources Overlay. Used by OEMs to customize look and feel of certain applications.",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/rros",
            "https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-theme-android-with-the-runtime-resource-overlay-framework--cms-29708"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.auto_generated_rro_vendor__",
        "label": "android.auto_generated_rro_vendor__",
        "description": "RRO = Runtime Resources Overlay. Used by OEMs to customize look and feel of certain applications.",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/rros",
            "https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-theme-android-with-the-runtime-resource-overlay-framework--cms-29708"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.auto_generated_vendor_",
        "label": "android.auto_generated_vendor_",
        "description": "Auto generated vendor's stuff for Android Auto.",
        "web": [
            "https://www.android.com/intl/en_en/auto/"
        ],
        "removal": "delete",
        "warning": "You may need this if you use Android Auto",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.overlay.common",
        "description": "It has some important settings and configurations related to Android.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.overlay.target",
        "description": "It has some important settings and configurations related to Android.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "android.qvaoverlay.common",
        "description": "This app has no code and is safe to remove.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.adservices.api",
        "description": "Android AdServices. Introduced in Android 13 privacy sandbox beta components disabled on default.\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/adservices",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.apps.tag",
        "label": "Tags",
        "description": "Support for NFC tags interactions (5 permissions, Contacts/Phone On by default).\nNFC Tags are for instance used in buses to validate your transport card with your phone.\nOther example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TecTile\nYou will still be able to connect to a NFC device (e.g a speaker) with this disabled.",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.backupconfirm",
        "label": "com.android.backupconfirm",
        "description": "Restores Google settings with Google Backup restore.\nDisplays confirmation popup when doing ADB backup.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Disabling this package breaks ADB Backup and crashes on attempting to add a Google account",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.basicsmsreceiver",
        "description": "Gets SMS and creates notifications:\nhttps://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/BasicSmsReceiver/+/jb-dev/src/com/android/basicsmsreceiver/BasicSmsReceiverApp.java",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bio.face.service",
        "label": "com.android.bio.face.service",
        "description": "Handles facial recognition.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bips",
        "label": "Default Print Service",
        "description": "Generic printing service that should work with most printers.\nWill break printing functionality if disabled, but other replacement print services can be downloaded from the Play Store.",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bluetooth",
        "label": "Bluetooth",
        "description": "Bluetooth service",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bluetooth.overlay.common",
        "description": "Overlays are usually themes.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bluetoothmidiservice",
        "label": "Bluetooth MIDI Service",
        "description": "Provides classes for using the MIDI protocol over Bluetooth.",
        "removal": "delete",
        "warning": "Do not remove if you connect to a MIDI device via Bluetooth"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.bookmarkprovider",
        "label": "Bookmark Provider",
        "description": "Only exists for compatibility reasons to prevent apps querying it from getting null cursors they do not expect and crash.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Apps targeting a very old SDK might crash. For example, disabling this on LDPlayer emulator crashes the default browser."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.browser",
        "label": "Mi Browser",
        "description": "Mi Browser and browser for the LDPlayer emulator. It is a privacy nightmare and should be replaced.",
        "web": [
            "https://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-mi-web-browser-pro-mint-collecting-browsing-data-incognito-mode/"
        ],
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "browsers"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.browser.provider",
        "label": "com.android.browser.provider",
        "description": "Old package (2014). Chrome bookmarks provider? Injects Picasa URL (https://picasaweb.google.com) in the Chrome browser's bookmarks in the browser.",
        "removal": "delete",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.calculator2",
        "label": "Calculator",
        "description": "The AOSP calculator app\nSome OEMs (e.g. Huawei and Xiaomi) use the same package name for their app",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "calculators"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.calendar",
        "label": "Calendar",
        "description": "The AOSP Calendar app.\nSome OEMs (e.g. Huawei and Xiaomi) use the same package name for their app.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "calendars"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.calllogbackup",
        "label": "Call Log Backup/Restore",
        "description": "Call Logs Backup/Restore feature, runs in the background.",
        "web": [
            "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/CallLogProvider/+/refs/heads/master/src/com/android/calllogbackup"
        ],
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.camera",
        "description": "The stock AOSP camera app on many phones. However, on some Xiaomi phones, it is actually the Xiaomi Camera app. Deleting this will result in no camera app.\nTry Open Camera as an open source alternative:\nhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera&hl=en&gl=US",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.captiveportallogin",
        "label": "CaptivePortalLogin",
        "description": "Support for captive portal logins.\nA captive portal login is a web page where users have to log in or accept terms of use. Common for public wifi networks.",
        "web": [
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal"
        ],
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.carrierconfig",
        "label": "com.android.carrierconfig",
        "description": "Dynamically provides configuration for the carrier network.\nThe config contains: Roaming networks, Voicemail settings, SMS/MMS settings, VoLTE/IMS settings, and more.\nIf a carrier app is installed it will be queried for overrides to these settings.\nSeems to run on boot and when you swap SIM?",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/config/carrier",
            "https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:packages/apps/CarrierConfig/src/com/android/carrierconfig/DefaultCarrierConfigService.java"
        ],
        "removal": "replace",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.carrierconfig.overlay.common",
        "description": "Needed for (com.android.carrierconfig).",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.carrierdefaultapp",
        "label": "CarrierDefaultApp",
        "description": "This package is a generic solution that allows carriers to indicate when a device has run OOB (Out Of Balance). Android devices that are OOB need carrier mitigation protocols to allow select data through (like to notify users their data/balance is out, or allow them to buy more data through the carrier app).\nWill probably break that functionality if disabled, but is otherwise safe to disable (should only affect users that are out of data/balance?).",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/oob-users"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver",
        "label": "Emergency alerts",
        "description": "Cell broadcast is designed to deliver messages to multiple users in an area.\nThis is notably used by ISPs to send Emergency/Government alerts.\nRuns at boot time and is also triggered after exiting airplane mode.",
        "web": [
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast",
            "https://www.androidcentral.com/amber-alerts-and-android-what-you-need-know",
            "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/master/src/com/android/cellbroadcastreceiver"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.basiccolorblack.overlay",
        "label": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.basiccolorblack.overlay",
        "description": "Dark theme overlay for com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver",
        "dependencies": [
            "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.basiccolorwhite.overlay",
        "label": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.basiccolorwhite.overlay",
        "description": "Light theme overlay for com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver",
        "dependencies": [
            "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.module",
        "description": "Same as com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.\nCell broadcasting used to send emergency alerts.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast.",
        "dependencies": [
            "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.overlay.common",
        "label": "com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.overlay.common",
        "description": "Overlay for com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver. Inside the APK, I found unused things: show_brazil_settings, show_cmas_settings, show_etws_settings.\nThey are unavailable and useless.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cellbroadcastservice",
        "description": "is designed to deliver messages to multiple users in an area.\nThis is notably used by ISPs to send Emergency/Government alerts.\nRuns in the background.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast\nhttps://www.androidcentral.com/amber-alerts-and-android-what-you-need-know",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.certinstaller",
        "description": "Certificate installer\nUsed for accepting and revoking Internet certificates.\nCertificates identify ownership of public keys, for use in secure communications.\nBreaks Wi-Fi if disabled.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.companiondevicemanager",
        "label": "Companion Device Manager",
        "description": "This handles connections to nearby (usually not remote) devices, like Bluetooth Headphones, desktop Operating Systems, etc.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Removing this package may result in the inability to read the SD card from your computer's file manager (via USB)."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.connectivity.resources",
        "description": "Network connectivity resources.\nCause BOOTLOOP.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.contacts",
        "label": "Contacts",
        "description": "The AOSP Contacts app.\nSome OEMs (e.g. Xiaomi) use the same package name for their app.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "contacts"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.credentialmanager",
        "description": "Credential Manager\nManages with Passwords, passkeys.",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cts.ctsshim",
        "label": "Compatibility Test Suite",
        "description": "Used by manufacturer to test your copy of the device for performance. It just exists and doesn't run in background.",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/docs/compatibility/cts"
        ],
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.cts.priv.ctsshim",
        "label": "Compatibility Test Suite",
        "description": "Verifies certain upgrade scenarios.\nA shim is basically a compatibility layer for an API, that makes sure anything that uses the API does so correctly.",
        "web": [
            "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/51e458e/packages/CtsShim",
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_(computing)"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Disabling could mess with OTA updates."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.defcontainer",
        "description": "Package Access Helper\nDetermines the recommended install location for packages and if there is enough free space for the package.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.deskclock",
        "label": "Clock",
        "description": "The AOSP Clock app\nSome OEMs (e.g. Huawei and Xiaomi) use the same package name for their app.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "clocks"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.devicelockcontroller",
        "description": "This app can't be uninstalled or disabled.\nCan restrict this device if the owner doesn't make payments per month for the new phone.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dialer",
        "label": "Phone",
        "description": "The AOSP Dialer/Phone app\nDefault phone app on some older phones (like Oneplus 3).",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "dialers"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dialer.basiccolorblack.overlay",
        "description": "Dark theme overlay for AOSP Dialer?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dialer.basiccolorwhite.overlay",
        "description": "Light theme overlay for AOSP Dialer?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.documentsui",
        "label": "Files",
        "description": "Occasionally runs in the background.\nFile selector for other apps.",
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Storage Access Framework (SAF) will break if this is disabled."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.documentsui.a_overlay",
        "label": "com.android.documentsui.a_overlay",
        "description": "Some overlay for for \"Files\"?",
        "dependencies": [
            "com.android.documentsui"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dreams.basic",
        "label": "Basic Daydreams",
        "description": "Daydream (not Google Daydream VR) is an interactive screensaver mode built into Android.\nWith it turned on, it activates and shows the screensaver of your choice when you dock or charge your device.\nCan display the time, weather, quotes, photos, news, tweets, or anything else Daydream app developers can think of.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/dreams/DreamService"
        ],
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dreams.phototable",
        "label": "Photo Screensavers",
        "description": "Daydream stuff, see com.android.dreams.basic",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dreams.phototable.overlay",
        "label": "com.android.dreams.phototable.overlay",
        "description": "Overlay for the phototable daydream? Overlays are usually themes, but not sure about this one.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.dynsystem",
        "description": "Dynamic System Updates\nRuns on boot, but doesn't seem to run in the background beyond that.\nTreble gives the ability to boot an AOSP Generic System Image (GSI) on any supported device.\nDynamic System Updates allows to boot into a Generic System Image (GSI) without interfering with the current installation.\nThat means the bootloader doesn’t need to be unlocked and the user data doesn’t need to be wiped.\nhttps://developer.android.com/topic/dsu",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.egg",
        "label": "Android Easter Egg",
        "description": "Android's easter egg feature (spam-tap on the android version in the settings)",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.email",
        "label": "Email",
        "description": "The AOSP Email app.\nSome OEMs (e.g. Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo) use the same package name for their app.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "email_clients"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.email.partnerprovider",
        "label": "EmailPartnerProvider",
        "description": "Lets Google partners (OEM in most of the case) customize the default email settings.\nThe manufacturer often changes the default signature displayed at the end of each of your mail (e.g \"Sent from my Nokia phone\")",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.emergency",
        "label": "Emergency information",
        "description": "Shows emergency info on lockscreen and power menu. Safe to disable if you don't want it.\nLoads on device unlock/lockscreen and power menu, so it's basically always cached in RAM, but shouldn't use much/any battery, so the main thing gained from disabling this package is the ~9MB RAM it uses.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.emergency.basiccolorblack.overlay",
        "description": "Dark theme for Emergency rescue?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.emergency.basiccolorwhite.overlay",
        "description": "Dark theme for Emergency rescue?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.exchange",
        "label": "Exchange Services",
        "description": "Handles all aspects of starting, maintaining, and stopping the various sync adapters for the email accounts.\nIs it only needed for the email stock app?\n",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "email_clients"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.ext.adservices.api",
        "description": "Another component of Android AdServices.\nIntroduced in Android 14.\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/adservices",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.externalstorage",
        "label": "External Storage",
        "description": "Needed by apps to access external storage such as memory cards.",
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Storage Access Framework (SAF) will break if this is disabled."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.facelock",
        "label": "Trusted Face",
        "description": "Package for supporting the Face Unlock feature",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Do not remove if you use Face Unlock"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.federatedcompute.services",
        "description": "FederatedCompute\nAnother component of OnDevicePersonalization. But this app learns things about users.\nIntroduced in Android 14(`com.google.android.federatedcompute` Introduced in Android 13).\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/ondevicepersonalization",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.fmradio",
        "label": "FM Radio",
        "description": "Plug in head phones and listen to the FM radio!",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "radios"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.frameworkhwext.dark",
        "description": "Required components of the androidhwext.\nBasic functionality of Huawei Phones.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.frameworkhwext.honor",
        "description": "Required components of the androidhwext.\nBasic functionality of Huawei Phones.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.frameworkres.overlay",
        "description": "Runtime Resource Overlay\nThis framework provides the ability to replace application resources while the application is running. More info:\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/rros",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.galaxy4",
        "label": "Black Hole",
        "description": "Built-in Dynamic wallpaper",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.gallery3d",
        "label": "Gallery",
        "description": "The AOSP Gallery app, often vendors (e.g. Xiaomi) modify it to provide their own apps.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "gallery"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.health.connect.backuprestore",
        "description": "Backups data from Health Connect app.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.healthconnect.controller",
        "description": "Health Connect\nManage the health and fitness data on your phone, and control which apps can access it.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.hotspot2",
        "label": "OsuLogin",
        "description": "Provides wifi tethering i.e. lets you share your mobile device's Internet connection with other devices.",
        "web": [
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.hotspot2.osulogin",
        "label": "OsuLogin",
        "description": "The sole purpose of the app is to provision credentials from the Wi-Fi network to the device and allow them to connect to Wi-Fi Hotspot 2.0.",
        "web": [
            "https://hackanons.com/2021/07/osulogin-android-everything-you-need-to-know.html"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.htmlviewer",
        "label": "HTML Viewer",
        "description": "Allows apps to load URLs into the WebView, which allows web content to be displayed directly in the app.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Removing this causes a bootloop on some MIUI 12.5.4+ phones."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.inputdevices",
        "label": "Input Devices",
        "description": "Only contains a receiver named \"Android keyboard\", possibly for an external keyboard.\nLocates available keyboard layouts. Apps can offer additional keyboard layouts to the user by declaring a suitable broadcast receiver in their manifest.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "If you are using the default Samsung keyboard, then deleting this package on some phones may cause the keyboard to completely stop working. You may get locked out of your phone if the only method to authenticate yourself is using password."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.inputmethod.latin",
        "label": "Android Keyboard (AOSP)",
        "description": "The AOSP keyboard app",
        "removal": "replace",
        "warning": "Do NOT disable if you don't have another keyboard with direct boot mode support, or you'll be stuck at boot (no keyboard to unlock the phone).",
        "suggestions": "keyboards"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.intentresolver",
        "description": "'Share' functionality will be disabled after uninstalling this package on Android 14 and up. Additionally, motion photos will become broken.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.corner",
        "label": "Corner cutout",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.double",
        "label": "Double cutout",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.hole",
        "label": "Punch Hole cutout",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.narrow",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.noCutout",
        "label": "Hide",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.tall",
        "label": "Tall cutout",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.waterfall",
        "label": "Waterfall cutout",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.display.cutout.emulation.wide",
        "description": "Display cutout variant.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout",
            "https://source.android.com/devices/tech/display/display-cutouts"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Removing the app will cause bootloop."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural",
        "label": "Gestural Navigation Bar",
        "description": "Gesture navigation\nLets you use swipes and other actions to navigate your device, rather than buttons.",
        "web": [
            "https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/08/gesture-navigation-backstory.html"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_extra_wide_back",
        "label": "Gestural Navigation Bar",
        "description": "Enables a setting increasing how far you need to move your finger to trigger the back gesture.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_narrow_back",
        "label": "Gestural Navigation Bar",
        "description": "Enables a setting decreasing how far you need to move your finger to trigger the back gesture.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_wide_back",
        "label": "Gestural Navigation Bar",
        "description": "Enables a setting increasing how far you need to move your finger to trigger the back gesture.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.hidegestural",
        "description": "Allows 'Gesture hint' to be disabled in Navigation bar > Swipe gestures.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.threebutton",
        "label": "3 Button Navigation Bar",
        "description": "The default system navbar? It's what you use when you don't use gesture navigation.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.transparent",
        "description": "Allows 'Transparent navigation bar' to be enabled in Developer options.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.twobutton",
        "label": "2 Button Navigation Bar",
        "description": "Enables a setting for using just 2 buttons in the system navbar?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.internal.systemui.onehanded.gestural",
        "description": "one-handed mode, which can be found in the settings.\none-handed mode will not work. Safe to remove if you dont use these setting.",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.keychain",
        "description": "Enables apps to use system wide credential KeyChain (shared credentials between apps)\nhttps://security.stackexchange.com/questions/216716/android-keychain-what-is-a-system-wide-credential\n",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.launcher3",
        "label": "Quickstep",
        "description": "The AOSP launcher. OEMs frequently use this to deliver their own launcher.\nYou need to install another launcher before removing it.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "You need to install another launcher before removing it.",
        "suggestions": "launchers"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.localtransport",
        "description": "Backup transport for stashing stuff into a known location on disk, and later restoring from there.\nNeeded for storing backup data locally on a device?\nThis package also provides the backup confirmation UI.\nhttps://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/testingbackup",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.location.fused",
        "description": "Manages underlying location technologies, such as GPS and Wi-Fi.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.magicsmoke",
        "label": "Magic Smoke Wallpapers",
        "description": "Bulit-in Live wallpaper.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.managedprovisioning",
        "label": "Work Setup",
        "description": "Work Setup/Work profile setup\nManages Android user account profiles.\nThe typical use-case is setting up a corporate profile that is controlled by the employer on an employee's personal device, to keep personal and work data separate.",
        "web": [
            "https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949",
            "https://developers.google.com/android/work/requirements/work-profile",
            "https://beta.pithus.org/report/922fa478f5b2a8784e33626f04ff039d510b9dd7d5fd06db5c55002b5b5afae1"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Needed for sandbox apps such as Shelter or Insular/Island."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.mms",
        "label": "Messages",
        "description": "The AOSP SMS app.\nOccasionally runs in the background.\nSome OEMs (like Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo) use the same package name for their app.",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "sms"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.mms.service",
        "description": "Provides support for sending MMS.\nIt doesn't cause bootloop.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.modulemetadata",
        "label": "Module Metadata",
        "description": "It's used to manage and store metadata about installed modules, and is accessed by the system server.",
        "removal": "unsafe",
        "warning": "Breaks some Android core functionalities if disabled."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.mtp",
        "description": "MTP Host\nHandles MTP(Media Transfer Protocol), a protocol for transfering files between the device and a connected PC.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.musicfx",
        "label": "MusicFX",
        "description": "Audio EQ (equalizer). Some 3rd-party music apps can use it to provide you EQ features.",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.musicvis",
        "label": "Music Visualization Wallpapers",
        "description": "Built-in live wallpaper",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.nearby.halfsheet",
        "description": "Useless frameworks to Wi-Fi connections, USB tethering, auto, usage.\nEvery version has random code and the app is not running in the background.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.inprocess",
        "label": "NetworkStack",
        "description": "Related to the Network Stack module, which is an updatable Mainline module that ensures Android can adapt to evolving network standards and allows for interoperability with new implementations",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/networking"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.inprocess.overlay",
        "description": "Related to the Network Stack module,\nwhich is an updatable Mainline module that ensures Android can adapt to evolving network standards and allows for interoperability with new implementations\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/networking",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.overlay",
        "description": "WiFi will not work after remove.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.permissionconfig",
        "description": "Defines a permission that enables modules to perform network-related tasks.",
        "web": [
            "https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/modular-system/networking"
        ],
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.tethering.inprocess.overlay",
        "description": "Related to the Tethering module,\nwhich allows an Android device to share its internet connection with other connected client devices.\nThis package contains classes and components that are used for in-process overlay functionality within the Tethering module.\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/tethering",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.networkstack.tethering.overlay",
        "description": "Component of the Network, Tethering module.\nPackage is not a publicly documented.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.nfc",
        "label": "Nfc Service",
        "description": "Runs in the background as part of the System.\nI assume NFC breaks when disabled.\nWill probably run even if disabled, like most system packages. So disabling/uninstalling is probably pointless.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.noisefield",
        "label": "Bubbles",
        "description": "Built-in live wallpaper.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.ondevicepersonalization.services",
        "description": "OnDevicePersonalization. Another thing to AdServices privacy sandbox.\nIntroduced in Android 13.\nhttps://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/ondevicepersonalization",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.ons",
        "label": "com.android.ons",
        "description": "ons = Opportunistic Network Service\nFrom what I can glean in the source code it seems like this provides a list of available networks and assigns each network a priority.\nI've never seen it run on its own, so this might be part of some automatic network switching setting that I have turned off.",
        "web": [
            "https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:packages/services/AlternativeNetworkAccess/src/com/android/ons/OpportunisticNetworkService.java",
            "https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/AvailableNetworkInfo",
            "https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:frameworks/base/telephony/java/android/telephony/AvailableNetworkInfo.java"
        ],
        "removal": "caution",
        "suppress": "LabelSameAsId"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.otaprovisioningclient",
        "label": "OTA Access Point Configuration",
        "description": "OTA (Over the air) is the method used by OEMs to push updates to your device.\nAn OTA access point is used to run system software updates over a special gateway. This package is most likely customized by your OEM.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.overlay.systemui",
        "description": "On some phones, it is an overlay to app \"com.google.android.apps.safetyhub\".\nCheck out this app code and think about it.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.packageinstaller",
        "description": "Handles installation, upgrade, and removal of applications.\n",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.pacprocessor",
        "label": "PacProcessor",
        "description": "PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) is a file which defines how an app can automatically find the correct proxy server for fetching an URL.\nShould be safe to remove if you don't use Auto-proxy (with PAC file config).",
        "web": [
            "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phasebeam",
        "label": "Phase beam",
        "description": "Built-in live wallpaper",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone",
        "description": "AOSP Dialer\nRemoving this package breaks the software update/download and install screen on Samsung. WARNING: for me, it breaks the phone app completely with call routing enabled. Not sure about other cases.",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone.a_overlay",
        "description": "AOSP code for dialer app features.\nSIM card will not be detected if disabled.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone.basiccolorblack.overlay",
        "description": "Dark theme for phone app?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone.basiccolorwhite.overlay",
        "description": "Light theme for phone app?",
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone.overlay.common",
        "description": "Location and dialer things.",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.phone.recorder",
        "label": "Recorder",
        "description": "AOSP Call recorder function. Most of the time OEM use their own code for this.\nSome OEMs (like Huawei & Xiaomi) use the same package name for their app",
        "removal": "replace",
        "suggestions": "call_recorders"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.printservice.recommendation",
        "label": "Print Service Recommendation Service",
        "description": "Recommends 3rd-party print services apps in the PlayStore. Printing will probably still work without it (by using the default print service).",
        "removal": "replace"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.printspooler",
        "label": "Print Spooler",
        "description": "Manages the printing process.\nRuns on boot, but not beyond that.",
        "removal": "caution",
        "warning": "Apart from breaking the printing functionality, it also breaks the connection preferences submenu in the settings app on most devices."
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.protips",
        "label": "Home screen tips",
        "description": "Runs on boot.\nThe tip popups you get on the homescreen.",
        "removal": "delete"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.providers.applications",
        "description": "Provides a list of installed applications.\nContent providers encapsulate data, providing centralized management of data shared between apps.\nhttps://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html",
        "removal": "unsafe"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.providers.blockednumber",
        "label": "Blocked Numbers Storage",
        "description": "Handles blocked number storage.\nOn some devices this seems to be tied to the recent apps menu.\nContent providers encapsulate data, providing centralized management of data shared between apps.",
        "web": [
            "https://gitlab.com/W1nst0n/universal-android-debloater/-/issues/6",
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.providers.calendar",
        "label": "Calendar Storage",
        "description": "Necessary for the stock Calendar app to work correctly.\nContent providers encapsulate data, providing centralized management of data shared between apps.",
        "web": [
            "https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html"
        ],
        "removal": "caution"
    },
    {
        "id": "com.android.providers.contacts",
        "label": "Contacts Storage",
        "description": "Provider for contact data.\nContent providers encapsulate data, providing cent