Android: Manage system installed apps - disable MS Office and hide app icon

Question

Does anyone know of a way to disable and hide pre-installed (aka system apps) such as MS Office (Word, Powerpoint) using SMC? 
 Reason for this is they rely on Galaxy Apps - but we have to keep this disabled for our users to keep it managed.

Shweta · Answer

Hi there, 
 
 Android system apps are automatically allowed. If you specify Forbidden apps , the device will no longer be compliant if these apps are detected. As suggested above, the available settings in Android Enterprise policy are the "App control" where you can define the list of the app which users should not open.

SDU · Answer

Hi Simon,

the only option to achieve this on an Android device would be to use a so called "App Control" profile. Within this profile you can define apps which the user is not allowed to start.
Completely hiding them is not possible.

Hope it helps.

Best regards
Stefan