Google Play is a great place to find and download games, but sometimes you may want to delete a game that you no longer want to play. To delete a game from Google Play, follow these steps:

  1. Open Google Play and sign in.
  2. Click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen (the one with the blue arrow).
  3. Click on the three lines in the bottom right corner of the main screen (the one with the green arrow).
  4. Type “delete” into one of those boxes and click on the Delete button.
  5. The game will be deleted from your Google Play account and you will not be able to play it anymore!

Removing your app from Play Store is even easier for regular users. Just log into your account, navigate to My apps & games > App Name and configure “Uninstall” . Almost like magic – now you can use Google Play store as a simple way to remove any application… but not everything is that smooth:

How do you remove your account and all of its data from Google Play? Unless you want to delete the app entirely, there is no way. Why? Because you are not a developer – this is the most frustrating thing because it doesn’t make any sense. To be honest, Google should give us the ability to do so, because some users might really not need their accounts anymore (they’re planning to stop using Android or just don’t need Google Play).

I have an idea. How about letting me remove my personal information from web store and then resetting my password back to “inactive”? Then I can create new account with same email address and choose whether I will connect it with existing publisher’s account or start as fresh beginner in Android development… This way it would be very easy to create a new account and start to rebuild my portfolio with new apps or at least improve my rating.

How about you? How do you think Google Play should deal with accounts of inactive users? Please share your opinions in comments below.

Solutions: Contacting Google support directly (really) or collecting information from this blog post will help you learn how to remove Google Play presence completely (with associated account). You may have the option for opening a web store page for any app that you are developer of, even if it’s unpublished. Please note that removing your app from web store is only step 1 – the next article is coming soon…

This morning, one of my friends told me that he had deleted a game from Google Play while playing it on his mobile phone yesterday. He didn’t remember doing so and even thought the game was still on his device. I started looking into this behavior, I found out if you have ever played a game in your life, there is almost no way to get rid of it from your Android phone or tablet totally. You can uninstall the app all right but not remove any data inside the app’s directory unless you root your device.

I sent an email to ask Google about what happens after deleting an installed application and got the following answer: “When you delete an app from your phone, it stops showing up on your Android device. It also remains in the Google Play Store and is available for reinstallation.” However, according to my experiment, I got a different answer.

Yesterday before going to bed, I played several games including Game of War: Fire Age (a game downloaded from Apple’s App Store) with my Nexus 7 tablet. In the morning when getting up to take a bath, I found that my tablet had rebooted itself during night and many apps were out of sight, so was Game of War: Fire Age. So I decided to uninstall the app completely by using Google Play’s delete function. To my surprise, there was still a folder inside an existing directory named “com2us” that contains several files with obscure names. I tried to open it and found the app information is still there, including the game progress, scores, etc. It says “Game of War (com2us)” inside the title bar.

I don’t have a Nexus device myself so I asked my colleagues to help me test several devices which are running Android 4.3 and the results are still the same: even if you delete an app, it will be existed in your phone unless you root it to get rid of all data inside the app’s directory manually.