. How do you disable recommended Apps for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

How do you disable recommended Apps for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3

So what are recommended apps?

They are five icons that show up in your notification panel when you plug in your earphones or you dock your galaxy note 3.  So those are the apps that use the most when you have that peripheral connected, well some people don't like that so i wanted to show you how to do just that, how to disable it.  And i also wanted to discuss some tips on how to remove apps that you necessarily don't need for example the ones that your carrier has included because they are taking up some memory and they be taking up some battery as well.  So let's get started.  So to see recommended apps, plug in your earphones,or dock your device, and you'll get the most commonly used apps in the notification bar. If you had a galaxy note 2, you may be thinking, yeah, it's kinda like page buddy.  Well, that couldn't be more closer to the truth.  In fact, it is page buddy, just presented to you in a more subtle way. 

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The note 2 has gained this feature as well, but for some reason, i don't seem to get recommended apps when i detach the s pen on my note 3, but i get it on the note 2.  And just to be clear, i personally like there commended apps feature.  When i plug in my earphones, it knows that i'm probably wanting to listen to music.  However, not everyone likes this feature.  And if that's you, here is how to disable it.  Go to settings -> general -> application manager.  Swipe to the left until you see the all tab.  Scroll down until you see page buddy notisvc.  Select it.  Then hit turn off.  For it to take effect, you need to restart the device.  Stopping it, and plugging your earphones again won't do the trick.  A reboot seems to be required. But before you do that, if you haven't done so already, i wanted to show you that you can use the application manager to debloat, which is another way to say "remove unnecessary carrier apps".  Some of them take up a lot of memory or the cpu, which can make your device run not as smooth.  And it also means more battery use as well.  So here are all the apps i've disabled.  The apps you may want to turn off will be entirely different but i generally find most apps provided by any carrier to be pretty much useless.  Except maybe one or two that lets me manage my wireless account. So just to demonstrate that recommended apps don't appear any more, i'm going to reboot my device.  And you can see, you no longer get the recommended apps appearing on top when you plug in your earphones or connect your device to a dock. So that's it for today's video.  And thank you for asking that question.  I know that a lot of you like this channel because i tend to answer a lot of questions in the comments,however, youtube does not necessarily notify me of all the comments that come in especially for the older videos.  So as a solution to that, i was thinking maybe i can do a live hangout.

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