Google Services Framework

A long-standing Google background component that holds the phone's Google registration and works alongside Google Play services. Keep it: Google Services Framework is needed for the phone, its updates or its security.

Searching for it by name? Read the full answer on Google Play Services .

What it does

Google Services Framework is a background package that ships next to Google Play services on phones with Google apps. It keeps the device's Google Services Framework ID, the identifier Google uses to register the phone with its services, and community analysis links it to account sync and cloud messaging work that Google Play services now mostly handles. It has no icon and no settings of its own. Google does not publish documentation for it, so its duties today are known mainly from community and press reports.

Also shown as GSF.

If you disable it

Community reports say Google sign-in, Play Store downloads and push notifications become unreliable and the phone can lose its Google registration. Treat it like Google Play services and leave it enabled.

How to disable it

On most phones Settings greys out Disable for this package, so ADB is the way to turn it off. The commands below work without root and can be undone.

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.gsf

adb shell pm enable com.google.android.gsf

The stronger option removes it for your user only; the original copy stays on the phone and a factory reset brings it back. Prefer disabling: it is easier to undo.

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.gsf

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.gsf

New to ADB? Set it up in about ten minutes.

Data and battery

Stores the device's Google Services Framework ID, which Google uses to identify the phone to its services.

Where it appears

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