Verizon App Manager auto-installing apps

[fred2132324]

Verizon App Manager just auto-install an app on my phone out of no where, without asking me or getting my permission. Some Royal Match app. I saw a "notification" from Verizon App Manager explicitly saying this. I'm the only one at my home, and there is NO possibility that someone else used my phone and manually downloaded it, it was 100% Verizon App Manager.

Does Verizon just auto-install new apps without user consent and take up storage. I mean I suppose if the app maker pays Verizon to generate "downloads" it makes sense that Verizon chooses $$$ over customer experience.

Anywho... is there any way to prevent this moving forward, or is disabling Verizon App Manager the only option?

(I've seen others post similar issues with Verizon App Manager, and the verizon people's response is that it shouldn't happen)

[punk8punk · Accepted solution]

This situation has been brought up MANY times by the Community and Verizon tries to push it off as user issues when it's clearly intentional as a policy choice by Verizon to push these apps on to their subscribers (and won't respond with clear instructions on disabling Verizon App Manager) for revenue generation purposes. It's a trashy way to handle this; or typical Verizon business decisions that elevate profit over customer experience.

Regardless, you can disable this mess by doing the following:

1. Go to 'Settings'

2. Go to 'Apps'

3. Scroll down to 'Verizon App Manager'

4. Choose the 'Disable' option at the bottom of the screen.

5. Uninstall the bloatware apps automatically installed. 

You will need to do this every time Verizon pushes a so-called update (they reenable this mess every few updates).

Hopefully Verizon will take a hint and stop this nonsense at some point. This is my third time disabling and uninstalling unwanted apps. 😞