Samsung Pay is considered one of Samsung’s top apps. It’s pretty cool because it turns your Samsung Galaxy phone into a digital bank card, making shopping easy without carrying cash.
But there might be moments when you decide you don’t want to use the app anymore. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily turn off or remove the Samsung Pay app.
If your reason for deleting the Samsung Pay app is its automatic popping up and downloading error and you want the Samsung Pay app to be around without this error. Then we have the solution for that too where you can continue using the app error-free without deleting it.
How to Disable Samsung Pay App from Home Screen
If your only reason for deleting the Samsung Pay app was its popping-up function on the home screen or the automatic downloading error. Then, you can easily turn both off without deleting the Samsung Pay app.
Here’s how you can do that:
1. Open the Samsung Pay app
2. Tap on the three lines at the top left corner.
3. Scroll down and select Settings.
4. Tap on Auto Update app and select Turn off from the menu options. Now, the automatic downloading error will be fixed.
5. Once you turned off the Auto Update app, now it is time to turn off the popping-up home screen function which becomes really annoying sometimes.
6. In the Settings, now tap on Quick Access.
7. Now, toggle off Lock Screen and Home Screen buttons.
Once you do this, Samsung Pay will not automatically start downloading or get activated from the Home Screen. To activate Samsung Pay and start using contactless payment, you would need to open the app and then tap and hold it to the terminal in order to pay.
But, if you want to delete the Samsung Pay app and get rid of it completely, then, you can do that too as Samsung now allows you to do that on newer Samsung devices.
How to Remove/Delete Samsung Pay App From Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
Samsung had added options on the newer Samsung Galaxy phones where you can uninstall/delete Samsung Pay app directly from the phone like any other app on your phone. Previously this was not the case, the uninstall option was disabled for Samsung Pay. Now you can do it easily here’s how:
1. Unlock your Samsung Phone
2. Tap and hold onto the Samsung Pay App from the App drawer.
3. When the pop-up menu appears, tap on Uninstall.
4. Tap OK to confirm your action.
5. You can also go to Settings >Apps >Samsung Pay >Uninstall >OK.
After uninstalling the Samsung Pay app, now, if you want to use a safe and secure payment app without any pop-up errors you can use Google Pay.
Can’t Disable/delete Samsung Pay App?
On some of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones, the Samsung Pay app is pre-installed which means you cannot disable or delete Samsung Pay as it is a system app. So how you can disable it?
To disable or delete the Samsung Pay app, you would need to root your Samsung phone. Once you root an Android device, you can then customize your phone as per your wish like deleting all the system apps that are pre-installed, using themes, apps that you can’t otherwise, and a lot more.
But you need to remember when you root your phone your phone’s warranty gets voided and also you won’t receive Google updates anymore.
That’s it, that was all about how you can delete and disable Samsung Pay app from your Galaxy Phone. We hope this article was helpful. If you liked our content do check out our other articles too like:
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