Dang! After messing about with PowerShell unsuccessfully, I turned to long-time fave 3rd-party tool Revo Uninstaller Free. Seems that Windows 10 doesn’t allow the Phone Link app to be uninstalled anymore. Sadly, the Uninstall option is greyed out in Settings. Likewise, I couldn’t get PowerShell Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage to work, either. But if you turn to Revo Uninstaller, it delivers the goods: Windows 10 Phone Link eliminated.
Why I Want Windows 10 Phone Link Eliminated
Two reasons:
1. Phone Link only works with Android phones and I have iOS. Don’t use it, ever.
2. Update failed, then app “stopped working, around recent Store revisions.
If I can’t use an app AND it causes errors, I don’t need it. Thus, I want it gone!
Look at the lead-in graphic. I’ve put a red box around the listing item for the Phone Link app on my Windows 10 production desktop. Right-click on that item, and the first menu option is “Uninstall.” Pick that. Revo asks you to confirm that choice, as follows:
Alas, PS does NOT show the command details it uses to pull this off. Sigh.
Revo Unsintaller works some PowerShell magic around the following text I copied:
Deployment operation progress: Microsoft.YourPhone_1.22092.211.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
After removing the app, I used the Revo Uninstaller Scan functions to remove all leftovers from the Registry. It no longer shows up on my Windows 10 PCs — all both of them. I will be on the lookout for reappearances after CUs and feature upgrades, based on what I read online about how Phone Link keeps showing back up.
When it comes to “Windows pest removal” sometimes, repeated treatments may be required. LOL!
Bless Revo.
+1 for nuking “Phone Link!”
(You were first result I found in Brave after keyword search for “windows 10 remove “Phone Link””).
Cheers mate.
Glad you found something you could use. The ways of search engines can be infinitely mysterious.
Cheers!
–Ed–