Posted on 07/01/2020 12:48:43 PM PDT by Enlightened1
How to tell if your phone has Covid 19 installed AND HOW to remove it:
Step 1. Go to Settings
Step 2. Click on GOOGLE
If you see COVID 19 at the top of the list you have it on your phone. How to remove it?
Step 1. Click on PLAY STORE and then SETTINGS and change to DO NOT AUTOUPDATE APPS. Then go to your main screen and go to step 2.
Step 2. Go to Settings then go to SECURITY AND LOCATION under Settings and shut off "FIND MY DEVICE".
Step 3. This is the most important part. Make sure your phone is backed up. Go to settings again and then go to APPS AND NOTIFICATIONS (SOME PHONES WILL SAY APPLICATIONS)
Step 4. Then click where it says SEE ALL APPS
Step 5. Look for GooglePLAYservices and click that Then on the top right click the 3 vertical dots and click Uninstall updates (If you don't see the 3 vertical lines some phones require you to click ADVANCED OPTIONS there and then the vertical lines show up).
This takes about 20 seconds so wait about 20 seconds. Now go back to step 1 and see if it's gone. Congratulations you just got rid of it!
Let me know in comments section if you had covid 19 on your phone also and if it removed it. God bless!
I would suggest NOT updating Google until the Scamdemic passes. You can update your other apps but I recommend don't update Google.
It is my personal opinion that the Scamdemic is being used to usher in the evil of socialism and the New World Order so I say this covid 19 app can go to hell where it belongs. This should be a choice.
“But I dont want to do it manually. Thats a ton of work.”
Trace is not activated unless you take steps to activate it.
Even. if you do act7vate it, you can turn notifications off.
I’m deaf, so it’s good to go!...............
“I was just about to get a flip phone!!”
Hubby got a flip phone about a year ago. Sad to say, it’s a smart phone that ... flips open. We were surprised, and pissed. I’m not even sure if you can get an old-fashioned flip phone any more. Maybe Jitterbug or something — which I would be fine with.
Mine was inoperable because have Location Services turned Off at all times.
You are not tracked by bluetooth, but rather by cellular data and known WiFi locations.
Exactly. I don’t have bluetooth on, cause it’s irritating, so trace just doesn’t matter for me, bit of wasted storage space.
Whatever. My phone lives in a metal box whenever I leave the house.
So it works for you ...??? :)
Classic scene, for sure.
“This should be a choice.”
It is a choice! OP is causing stress and unnecessary work.
The covid thing works by bluetooth, that’s how it finds out you got within 6 feet of somebody else with it turned on. It says right there on the screen “inactive because bluetooth disabled”.
The Bluetooth is used to determine what other phones you were in not-social distanced contact with.
Yes, I watch it every time it comes on cable, which is very rare these days. I guess it was too close to the truth, that and Idiocracy......................
“Mine was inoperable because have Location Services turned Off at all times.”
It is inoperable because it was never activated.
It does not use location services.
Mine is still there but my location is off so its not working. There are notes about finishing the set up, which I won’t do.
Still, the app did not uninstall following the outlined steps.
“. It says right there on the screen inactive because bluetooth disabled.”
Turn on Bluetooth! It is still not active.
“I guess it was too close to the truth,”
It was exactly the truth. Now that we’ve been retired for a few years, we rarely watch it any more.
“Still, the app did not uninstall following the outlined steps.”
Dont worry. It is not working till you activate it.
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Yeah, then you’d have to do the other thing. I hate bluetooth though. The one time I played with it it kept detecting all the bluetooth crap around “should I pair with that, what about this, hey here’s a thing”, just irritating. They’ve probably made it better, but I don’t want to take the chance. No killer app has showed up to make me try.
Hmmm...no whiz here, but mine says to turn on location.
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