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Again ads pushed to my iPhone without me doing anything (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by PeroBasta@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-standby-mode-iphone/

[–] Bahalex@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sets up “ads” on their screen. Complains.

[–] PeroBasta@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Huh. I guess I didn’t even realized that because I immediately changed those.

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You can also swipe left/right, there are 3-ish screens. One is just the time.