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Apple, Stop Doing This To Our iPhones

Simple Alpaca
3 min readOct 11, 2021

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Welcome back everyone, so I actually saw this on Reddit, and it was very interesting, Apple is actually, in a way, putting advertisements within the settings application for themselves. So, if we make our way over to the settings app, you can see right here there’s this little “Apple Care coverage available” message:

You might think to yourself that this isn’t that big of a deal, right? However, at times when you swipe out of here and you go back into your settings app, there may be something else that pops up, you may get a little prompt that notifies you about a new Apple Music or Apple Arcade deal. For example, I have my iPhone 12 right here, in this specific case if I open up my settings panel here, you can see that we still have the same panel as before, if I go ahead and click on here look what I see:

It shows me two things that have nothing to do with anything, I don’t even know why I’m getting prompted for these, it says Apple TV+ is free for three months, why does Apple even have to tell me this? Isn’t it kind…

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