This guide will show you the steps to uninstall a Device Admin app on your Android device. Numerous corporations and workspaces have set up and installed device admin apps on their employee’s devices. These apps help their IT admin keep their organization’s data secure on your device. Likewise, it also gives them a relatively higher degree of control over your device and let them carry out numerous tweaks, including but not limited to:
- View the data associated with your work account.
- Have a look at all the apps installed on your device.
- The amount of time and data you have spent on each app.
- The last bug report generated by you or your OS.
- They can even lock the device and reset the password.
- They can delete all the data on your device as well.
However, if you are planning to leave the reorganization or the admin app is causing quite a few issues with the normal functioning of your device, then you can easily remove it from your device. And in this guide, we will show you. various methods of getting this job done. So without any further ado, let’s get started.
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How to Uninstall Device Admin App on Android
Before carrying out this process, make sure you have the authorization and permission from the required personnel/IT management of your organization. Moreover, there exist numerous methods of getting this job done. We have listed all of them below. Go through them once and then try out the one that is in sync with your requirements. Droidwin and its members wouldn’t be held responsible in case of a thermonuclear war, your alarm doesn’t wake you up, or if anything happens to your device and data by performing the below steps.
Via Settings Menu
- To begin with, head over to Settings > Security and Privacy.
- Then go to More Security and Privacy > Device Admin Apps.
- Now disable the toggle next to the desired device administrator app.
- Or tap on the app’s name and tap Deactivate this Device Admin app.
- Then go to Settings > Apps > All Apps > Select the Device Admin app.
- Now tap on Uninstall > OK in the confirmation prompt that appears.
Via ADB Commands
If you wish to take a little technical route or if the option to Deactivate the Device Admin App is greyed out, then you can also opt for the ADB Commands to get this job done. Here’s how:
- To begin with, head over to Settings > About Phone > Tap on Build Number 7 Times.
- This will enable Developer Options. So go to Settings > System > Developer Options.
- Now enable USB Debugging from there and connect your device to PC via USB cable.
- Once that is done, now download and extract Android SDK Platform Tools on the PC.
- Then open Command Prompt inside platform-tools and type in the below command:
adb shell dpm remove-active-admin app-package-name/.yourAdminReceiver adb uninstall app-package-name
- Make sure you replace the app-package-name from the above command accordingly.
- If the aforementioned command doesn’t work, then you should try out the below one
adb shell dpm remove-active-admin app-package-name/MyDeviceAdminReceiver
Via Factory Reset
You can also carry out this task by taking the extreme approach of factory resetting the device from the Settings > System > Reset menu [doing so will wipe off all the data from your device, so take a backup beforehand].
That’s it. These were the three different methods that should help you uninstall a Device Admin app from your Android device. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
Fix Exception occurred while executing ‘remove-active-admin’
In some cases, you might get the below-mentioned error while trying to uninstall a device admin app via ADB Command:
Exception occurred while executing 'remove-active-admin': java.lang.SecurityException: Attempt to remove non-test admin
So in such cases, factory resetting is the only way out through which you can remove the app from your device [graned the Settings menu method is greyed out].
