14 DAY TRIAL // It sounds pretty awkward for someone who never owned a Samsung phone, but some of the apps that come pre-installed on the devices built by the South Korean company come with pre-loaded ads because nobody knows exactly why.
It’s an approach that Samsung has been using for quite some time, and while the main reason someone would include ads in their apps is revenue, this really can’t be the case for the phone maker.
It goes without saying that users aren’t necessarily the biggest fans of ads, especially because they show up in Samsung apps on a Samsung device, so the feedback in this regard has been pretty clear: customers want these ads to be gone and instead be provided with a completely clean experience.
As it turns out, the message reached Samsung and the company’s leadership team has reportedly decided to remove these ads from first-party apps. In other words, Samsung phones will now offer a cleaner experience to users, as the pre-loaded Samsung apps would no longer show any ads.
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Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean you still won’t be getting any ads out of the box. Samsung devices come pre-loaded with plenty of other apps, including software from Microsoft, so third parties could always enable ads if this is an approach they think makes sense.
For the time being, however, it’s still not known when exactly the ads are supposed to be removed.
Speaking at a meeting with employees, chief TM Roh said the ads from basic apps such as Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Themes would be removed, but on the other hand, no specifics have been provided.
A One UI update is likely the one that will finally remove these ads, but when exactly it’s supposed to go live is something that only Samsung can tell.