Stalkerware will often have an innocuous-sounding name.Ĥ) Under Settings -> Accessibility, look for any unfamiliar apps. If it’s off, that’s a fairly significant red flag.ģ) Under Settings -> Security and Privacy, click on “Device administrators,” and check if any apps with admin privileges are present. If your potential stalker has not been alone with your phone, and you have not clicked suspicious links from them or downloaded files, the odds that they have installed stalkerware on your phone are much, much lower.ġ) Download and run a malware scanner regularly, like Malwarebytes.Ģ) Check your Google Play Protect settings through the Google Play app and make sure it’s on and has scanned recently. It’s much easier to install stalkerware on an Android phone, and far and away the most efficient method for doing so is by having physical access to the phone. But because this info may be useful to others, let’s just roll with it for a minute. If you don't see it, first tap See all apps or App info.

Since chrome is most likely a system app you cant remove it but you can disable it. If you want you can disable Chrome so it wont bother you anymore once you use another browser Half of the crap on the play store is ad riddled junk so be aware of how you use your phone.

For next time be weary of what kind of apps you install and what kind of stuff you download. As for google chrome i would advice you to switch to Kiwi Browser It is a chromium browser but has built in adblocker plus it has chrome addon support so for even better adblocking you can add ublock origin to it by going to the chrome store like you would on your pc chrome. Maybe try this app hl=en and let it scan for malware or other crap and remove the app that it points towards. check which apps you have installed that might be the culprit. It is probably some app you have installed.

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