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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    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.

    Edited for clarity

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        Yes. It was a new feature. You can turn it on under settings. Long press on the screen and edit the widgets and turn off notifications for the App Store!

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      By the way on the left its a picture I took, its my gallery. Never asked the iPhone to put my gallery there either. Or even asking to have this “smart stack” enabled…

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      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.

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        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…

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      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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      I see, this community is just an echochamber for Apple enthusiast. If you complain or propose something new, its downvote rain!