Hi, I just unpacked an iPhone and I noticed this weird widget that was pre-added to my home-screen. Looks like it is ads! Is this a new normal behavior for Apple?

When you click on it you get redirected to the app-store to download this ticket app

  • @FecundpossumEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    I mean, you can easily turn it off by deleting that pane. All it’s doing is showing you a nearby point of interest, which isn’t a targeted ad scraped from your browsing habits. Pretty benign in my opinion, and I’m about as angrily anti ad as they come.

    • @[email protected]OP
      -13•1 year ago

      Nope, it’s a ticket company targeting my location through Apple to sell me tickets through their app.

      I don’t care if it can be turned off easily honestly. Where are we drawing the line? Why not inserting easily to remove ads in the setting menu?

      • OhStopYellingAtMe
        12•1 year ago

        It’s not an ad. It’s a Siri suggestion.

        Siri suggestions are just recommendations from the Siri search engine, based on your input. Since the device was new out of the box, it didn’t have any decent input yet so it just looks like a “random ad”. After using the phone for a while, the Siri suggestions will be more in tune with your habits (like your favorite traffic app for commuting, your upcoming calendar events, etc).

        Apple doesn’t sell advertising space on their Home Screen.