You are using your cellphone and suddenly ads start to appear from who knows where. Pop-up windows, advertising in notifications, among other things that can be very annoying for Android cellphone users.
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The first thing many people think is that the source of these ads is an application. However, nowadays it is so easy to install them and there are so many, that we may not know which one is causing our smartphone to be filled with ads.
Learn how to remove ads from your Android
The most essential step to remove ads from your Android smartphone is to uninstall the application that is causing them; that's the easy part. Now, the hardest part will be knowing which one it is among all the ones we usually have installed.
The technology specialized website, Xataka, mentions that there are two ways in which applications can invade us with advertising: through notifications or pop-ups. For the first case, you can get rid of them in the following way:
- Expand the notification area and find the annoying ad.
- Hold the notification for a few seconds until the option to mute it appears.
- Android will show you which app has sent you that notification.
- Knowing which app is bothering you with the ads, you can now proceed to uninstall it.
If your case is the second one, there is a little more work to do. If that's your case, then you should consider the following guide:
- Go to "Settings" and go to the applications section.
- Go to the options and look for the special access menu.
- You must find the overlay permission. Depending on the brand, you will find it with different names such as "display on top" or "show over other apps".
- Inspect which applications have permission to be shown over others. You will surely find one that shouldn't be in that place.
- Remove the overlay permission and check if the pop-ups stop appearing. If that's the case, then uninstall that application.
- If pop-ups continue to appear, repeat the steps to remove the overlay permission until you find the guilty app.
Another option you have is to use the AppWatch application. Thanks to it, you can find other apps that are 'abusing trust'.
Don't overload your Android with applications
Something you should consider is deleting applications that you are not using. That way you will save yourself many risks regarding the ads that may suddenly appear on your cellphone.