The system apps do not affect performance of the device in general and do not collect any personally identifiable information,” said the company in a statement. Facebook app is typically pre-installed as a stub app along with system apps to help keep Facebook apps up to date.
“The purpose of the Facebook System Apps is to help people have the best experience on Facebook apps out of the box. The system apps do not collect this information until a person opens one of our consumer apps and accepts the Facebook Terms of Service,” said a Facebook spokesperson. These apps use basic device and network data in order to operate their primary functions of installing and updating consumer apps, fixing issues and improving performance. “Our system apps do not collect names, contact information or other sensitive data about the device owner. Should you be worried about these Facebook system apps? The Times of India-Gadgets Now reached out to both Samsung and Facebook to explain the need for these system apps. System apps often don’t have app icons because they don’t have any user interface – they are background utilities to support other apps, in this case, keeping Facebook’s consumer apps up to date and delivering notifications,” said Facebook. Android system apps are not hidden - you can find them under Settings > Apps on your device. “To ensure people have the best experience right out of the box and during the lifecycle of their devices, we partner with mobile operators and device manufacturers to preinstall Facebook apps on devices. What’s the need for these three Facebook system apps? Facebook explains in its official blog that they do not want any user to use an old version of their app just because they are too lazy to update the app from Google Play or do not have access to enough mobile data. There is little logical interpretation as to why a non-Facebook smartphone user would want to have three Facebook system apps on their device. None of the phones from these brands will let you completely uninstall the Facebook system apps, but you can disable them manually. HMD Global seems to be the only company which is not yet offering these three ‘free’ Facebook bloatware on Nokia phones.
Not just Samsung phones, you can find it in Realme, Xiaomi, Poco, Oppo and other phones from popular brands as well. But just head to the Settings menu and you will see these same Facebook system apps that you can’t delete. However, in the new phones that Samsung is selling this year including Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the company lets you delete the pre-installed Facebook app. You can’t delete it but thankfully you can disable it. It is known that every Samsung phone comes with Facebook pre-install on it. Samsung phones after the launch of the Galaxy Note 20 series.
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