The Digital wellbeing application from Google is baked in to Google derived Android 13 devices. If you don’t like the idea of your device usage data being even more closely monitored and disguised as being good for you this brief article will show you how to remove it without root.
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Note: This method will require ADB to be installed; read more about using ADB with examples here.
The command below uses the uninstall method instead of disable because if you only disable the application the Digital Wellbeing menu entry under Settings is still present but with out an icon.
Uninstalling the application from the user space
This has been tested on Android 13 with a Sony Xperia 1 IV.
Open a shell and enter the following:
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.overlay.gmswellbeingconfig
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.wellbeingNote for Samsung based devices
Note that the Settings menu for Digital Wellbeing will remain on Samsung devices but won’t do anything on click.
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.forestReinstalling the application from the user space
adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.overlay.gmswellbeingconfig
adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.apps.wellbeing