How do I uninstall the Samsung My Files app?

Last reviewed: September 22, 2026 · Markdown version

You cannot uninstall it, and Samsung says so directly. From Samsung's support page on removing pre-installed apps (read 22 September 2026): "Some pre-installed apps on your Samsung Galaxy device can be deleted, while essential apps such as Phone, Messages, Contacts, Gallery, and My Files cannot because they are required for basic device functions."

What you can do instead

Samsung's own page gives two options: "If an app cannot be deleted, you can hide it from the Home and Apps screens or disable it if the option is available." It also notes which of those is dependable — "The hide apps option is available for all pre-installed apps, but the disable option is available only for some apps."

So in practice: hide it if you never want to see the icon again, and check whether Disable is offered if you want it inert. Disabling a file manager is worth thinking about first, because several other apps hand off to it when you tap "open containing folder" or pick a file.

What happens to your files either way

Nothing. My Files is a viewer, not a container — it browses the same storage every other app browses. Hiding, disabling or removing a file manager never removes a file, in the same way that closing a window does not remove the room. If you want to browse storage without it, Files by Google does the same job. How that one works.

Why it is usually not the app's fault

Most people who want to remove a file manager are annoyed by something else: a storage warning, a downloads folder with thousands of items in it, or the feeling that the phone is full of things nobody chose. A file manager is the thing that shows you that, which makes it an easy target and a poor one. What is actually taking the space.

The other common motive is duplication — two file managers, both wanting to be the default. That is worth solving by choosing a default rather than by trying to delete one of them.

Where Adinand Auto File Sorter fits

It is not a file browser and does not replace one: there is no folder-browsing view to spend your evening in. It does one job — it watches a folder, Downloads by default, and moves what lands there into Downloads › Sorted Files, in sub-folders named for the category: Documents, Images, Videos, Apps, Audio, Archives, Others. You then open any file manager, including My Files, and find a handful of folders instead of a wall.

The limits: categorisation is by file extension only, and a file with no extension is never sorted. The scan is not recursive — only the files sitting directly in a watched folder are moved. Sorting never deletes anything; every move is copy, verify, then remove the original, and the last sort can be undone. Android 10 and later, Android only.