How to Remove Windows Phone App, and other Hard-to-Remove Apps from Windows 10
Transcript: Windows 10 comes with many apps pre-installed, For Example, the the 'Your Phone' app.
Many of these apps cannot be removed through regular means. In Apps & Features, the Uninstall button does not do anything, and in the Advanced options for the app, the Uninstall does not do anything in there either.
Fortunately, there is a way to remove these apps.... with Windows PowerShell. Search for PowerShell in your start menu. Locate the PowerShell ISE. Right-click and choose 'Run as Administrator. Click the View Menu, and choose 'Show Script Pane'
You don't have to save the file, but I will save my Powershell Script file as 'RemovePhoneAppX.ps1'. First, we will run the Get-AppXPackage with the -AllUsers option, and type in the app name in double-quotes. I put a Asterisk before and after the app name. These are wildcards so that we'll find the app if it's actual name has some words or letters before and/or after 'Your Phone' Press the Play button, or the F5 key. Notice that the full name of the app is Microsoft.YourPhone
Now let's remove it. In PowerShell, the vertical pipe character allows us to send the output of one function directly into another. In other words, the Get command gets the app, and then we send the result (the app) to the remove command (Remove-AppxPackage). The ErrorAction part is optional. I like to add it to suppress error messages when they are not needed. Press the Play button, or F5 key.
Now, go back into Apps & Features, and search for Phone. There are no search results. The app has been successfully uninstalled.
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