Which Google Apps is it safe to disable FP3

[UndoingThoughts]

Before there is a working / active developed Custom ROM aka Lineage OS for the FP3, which Google apps and services is it safe to disable on the FP3?

Any help would be appreciated. I remember reading somewhere here that someone disabled Chrome or another such app and it caused issues for them.

Many thanks in advance.

[AnotherElk]

Welcome to the community forum.

Please have look in this topic …

Google Apps keep reinstalling/ reactivating

Here’s my current take … I try to walk a line between de-Google-ing the phone while keeping the basic Google Mobile Services (GMS, for OTA updates of the OS and some Play Store Apps I still have as APKs for installing) and the Play Store itself (for updates of remaining Google components) from breaking, even if I try not to use my Google account for now. I’m not a big fan of installing downloaded APKs from some website without an automatic update possibility which stores like e.g. F-Droid prov…

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@UndoingThoughts

I remember reading somewhere here that someone disabled Chrome or another such app and it caused issues for them.

Android System WebView most likely. Big difference.

[Martin_Mattausch-Wie]

I screwed up my system deleting! chrome. Disabling it does not do harm. But its reenabling itself if it gets updated through play store.

[AnotherElk]

@Martin_Mattausch-Wie

I screwed up my system deleting! chrome.

How exactly did you delete Chrome?

[Martin_Mattausch-Wie]

(after rooting of course) I used an (uninstaller) app to uninstall chrome, i did this because i thought it would be saver then deleting stuff with a filemanager. After a reboot it went in a bootloop. I can not tell you what exactly went wrong there. I did not had this kind of behavior on other devices bevor.

[AnotherElk]

@Martin_Mattausch-Wie

(after rooting of course) I used an (uninstaller) app to uninstall chrome

Ok, that’s valuable info, then I guess we don’t want to do that.

The way to uninstall/deactivate (the command is uninstall, what it does is more deactivate) which was established in the topic I linked to doesn’t wreck the system, and Chrome doesn’t get updated, at least for me (via Play Store as long as I still had it active, and now via Aurora Store, which happily updates other Google stuff I left active).

Doing that with Android System WebView however, does take away some functionality.

[Martin_Mattausch-Wie]

I dont use chromebrowser, i use firefox. I like clean systems so chrome had to go. At least that was the plan… But thx to this forum i now know a lot more of reflashing stockdroids to a/b partitons.