Samsung stops showing ads in its Weather app

Jeet — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 05:49:16 +0000

Last week, South Korean technology giant Samsung, which is also the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, confirmed that it will remove advertisements from its own applications on its devices.

Now, just days after that announcement, the company has started taking steps towards that promise. In its first move, Samsung has now stopped showing advertisements in its stock Weather application, as reported by Twitter user @FrontTron.

Finally! No more banner ads in the Samsung stock Weather app! pic.twitter.com/RrXHdSDN7g

— Tron ❂ (@FrontTron) August 23, 2021

This is just a start and all the other applications developed by Samsung for its smartphones will soon stop showing ads. While the Weather has stopped show ads, they are still present in the Samsung Pay and Samsung Themes apps.

With the introduction of its revamped custom user interface One UI, the South Korean giant had started showing ads in some of the most used applications. But after user complaints as well as complaints from the Samsung employees, the company announced that it will be removing ads from its smartphones via future One UI software updates.

The South Korean firm was seeking new growth opportunities in the fields of content and advertising services, aiming to provide useful information that customers need through search and recommendation in the content service or Galaxy Store. This led to showing advertisements in Samsung smartphones.

Samsung has said that the update should be ready by the end of this year but there’s no exact timeline available. The rough estimate from the company hints that the upcoming One UI 4.0 which is based on the latest Android 12 operating system won’t have advertisements for the company’s own apps.

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Samsung confirms to remove ads from its smartphones

Sudarshan Ravichandran — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:57:13 +0000

Almost all smartphones available globally come with some sort of advertisement. Although ads on phones are mostly associated with devices from Chinese OEMs, especially Xiaomi, South Korean tech giant Samsung is no innocent either. But thankfully, Samsung has now confirmed to remove those annoying ads from its phones.

Samsung revamped its Android-based mobile operating system with the introduction of One UI. Unfortunately, slowly and steadily, the company put ads in some of the most used system apps like Samsung Weather, Galaxy Themes, and Samsung Pay.

Users around the world have been complaining about this for some time now. In fact, even Samsung employees are frustrated about it.

According to a report by Yonhap News Agency (via The Verge), one of these employees questioned Dr. TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business at Samsung, regarding ads on the company’s smartphones in a recent ‘town hall meeting’ with employees held at Samsung Electronics’ Suwon Digital City on August 17.

To this, the top executive replied that Samsung has been seeking new growth opportunities in the fields of content and advertising services. The company is aiming to provide useful information that customers need through search and recommendation in the content service or Galaxy Store.

At the same time, he also said that criticism from employees is necessary for the growth and development of the company. Hence, Samsung will be removing ads from its smartphones via future One UI software update.

The South Korean tech giant even issued an official statement to The Verge saying that the above-mentioned update will be ready by later this year.

This means the ads on stock Samsung apps will likely go away with the release of One UI 4.0 based on Android 12.

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Samsung stops showing ads in its Weather app

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