We teach you to remove Direct Share. This annoying feature of the Android share menu takes too long to load and makes sending something to a contact a very slow task.
Direct Share: a badly implemented good idea
Direct Share is an Android function that is used in conjunction with the Share. These are those suggestions for direct contacts from WhatsApp, Twitter and other apps that appear in the upper area a few seconds after the menu is activated. Despite being a good idea, the general consensus is that it is poorly implemented. This is due to the inability to choose contacts to fix, as well as the loading time until it appears and the fact that it moves the rest of the options when displayed.
If you want to get rid of this menu, your options go through root your mobile. If you do, you can access different directories on your mobile where you can paste a xml file which will take care of blocking this function. We bring you three different methods to do this, depending on whether you prefer to use your computer or not. All these methods are very simple to apply, so you will not have any problem not only to install, but to uninstall as well.
How to remove Direct Share without a PC
- Download a root file explorer that allows you to access system directories. MiXplorer or Root Browser Classic are two popular options.
- Download disable-direct-share.xml.
- Enable the root access to the apps through the Developer Options on your mobile.
- Use the app from step 1 to copy the file to the path / data / system / ifw /.
How to remove Direct Share using ADB
- Activate the USB debugging in the developer options of your smartphone.
- Enable root access for ADB.
- Check that your device is well connected to the PC with the command adb devices.
- Use the command adb root.
- Download disable-direct-share.xml with the command wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stefansundin/android-disable-direct-share/master/disable-direct-share.xml.
- Install using the command adb push disable-direct-share.xml / data / system / ifw /.
If in the future you want to uninstall it, use the command that we place below:
$ adb shell ls / data / system / ifw /
disable-direct-share.xml
$ adb shell rm /data/system/ifw/disable-direct-share.xml
How to remove Direct Share with TWRP
- Download disable-direct-share-v1.zip.
- Download disable-direct-share-v1-uninstall.zip for easy uninstallation in the future.
- Reboot with TWRP and flash the zip file from step 1. Don't use zip signature verification.
- To uninstall, flash the zip file from step 2.