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Are we accepting this now? I just plugged my phone sideways on a stand and I got ads. Nice Apple, thank you.
I’m as pro privacy and anti advertising as it gets, and your post is bad. You have a Smart Stack card on screen that is showing you articles from the news app, and another showing you App Store recommendations. it’s not an advertisement, iOS does not spam ads, just remove the Smart Stack, or remove the news app and AppStore from its feed.
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That’s not an ad. It’s the App Store storefront. You have the App Store as a widget in standby mode. It did that because you may have recently used App Store.
All you have to do is hold your finger on it until you get into edit mode, and then tap the minus sign to remove it. More info here:
Smart stacks kept coming back on my phone. I’d delete it, put the one widget I want and the next day, Smart Stack. I do not want a Smart Stack, I do not want a stack at all. I just wanted clock and weather, every night it was all different.
By automatically creating a Smart Stack and adding the AppStore, then ‘intelligent scroll’ to it, without user input, is pretty close to spamming ads.
YES. That's it. I never set it up, at some point it appeared without any prompt or asking anything. And if i complain about it i get downvoted to oblivion...
By the way, that's an ad. You can call it appstore widget but its promoting apps. Before it was showing that cancer inducing "game" of clash royale and i never installed a game on my iPhone.
Anyway, the widget appeared by itself without asking me, and its primoting apps, that's advertisement.
An advertisement strongly implies some sort of payment. This is editorial content.
it's pissing me off anyway. It's promoting something that I did not setup or asked. I don't want to know what are the most thrilling games on the appstore (and I bet all this games have either a pay2win or pay2play option, where apple gains their 30%)
Sets up “ads” on their screen. Complains.
Keep on telling yourself that. The option was auto-activated by Apple via updates. The appstore widget was there since the beginning (like the gallery widget on the left).
So from one day to another, while putting my iPhone sideway on my desk, I saw an ad.
Huh. I guess I didn’t even realized that because I immediately changed those.
On the phone (in normal mode - I don’t have one of these stands set up), you can long press a stack and disable “widget suggestions” to keep other apps (such as the App Store and News apps) from making an appearance.
You can also swipe left/right, there are 3-ish screens. One is just the time.