As of yesterday, Samsung has stopped filling their stock One UI apps with ads after years of serving them. The apps include Samsung Pay, Weather, and Samsung Health.

Users had earlier shared their observations on the Samsung Community forums about the disappeared ads. And an investigation from TizenHelp (via: 9to5Google) led to a statement from a Samsung employee confirming that the ads were indeed gone for good.

“This is the Samsung Health Operation Manager. Please note that the banner at the top of the Samsung Health app will not be provided from October 1,” they said.

Samsung seems to have acknowledged the change only for South Korea, but reports confirm that the ads have gone from locations like the United States as well. The company had earlier this year announced that it will be removing ads.

Prior to this move, Samsung Pay had a large banner ad on its Pay tab which has now vanished. There is still a “Featured” section on the “Home” tab that may contain offers but it isn’t as intrusive as the ads shown before.

Samsung Health has also been updated, seemingly server-side, to remove a banner ad that appeared at the top of the app. While this section often highlighted workout tips, it also promoted products including Samsung’s smartwatches.

A banner ad positioned atop in Samsung Health has also been removed, presumably due to a server-side upgrade. While this section frequently featured workout tips, it also advertised Samsung’s smartwatches.

Finally, it appears that Samsung Weather has ceased serving ads in its top banner, with the app now simply displaying the temperature and forecast at the top. The Galaxy Themes app also seems to have removed its ad banner, as promised.

In case the aforementioned Samsung apps are still showing ads for you, a force stop or cache clear of the concerned should fix it.

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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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