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How do I stop ads on my Apple Watch?
- Thread starter NJRonbo
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Do you have the BestBuy app on your phone? It is pushing notifications to your phone, and your phone is set to push those to your watch. When you installed the app you must have approved its request to allow notifications.
If you go into the phone’s watch app there are settings for notifications.
Notice I have Best Buy toggled off on mine.
You will need to check your account settings on the BestBuy site for the responsible options to turn off.
The Best Buy website will have no settings to allow watch notifications to be turned on or off.
The settings are on the phone.
I just edited my post to include a screenshot from the watch app. That’s how you do it.
And this screen shot from the Best Buy iPhone app will let you make changes that affect both the phone and watch.
I was referring to the option to be contacted via phone number and text which would ultimately go to the watch. Even when I had the option turned off on the phone, I still got the watch ads. I ended up having to go to the website.
I just got an ad for vegan cheese from Safeway on my Watch. Tap tap! Look at your watch!... it's an ugly ad... . I don't know what is more gross, vegan cheese or ads on my effing wrist! I don't have the Safeway app on my Watch but I do (did) on my iPhone. My sister sent me some BS article from some vegan activist site 3 hours ago... and now I get this ad?
When you install the Safeway app on your phone, it includes a Watch component. You can go into the Watch app (on your phone) to disable notifications for the Safeway app. As LTLudwig shows above.
I’m sure that article your sister sent you had ad tracking on it. Safeway buys the data of who read the article and then spams those people. You block notices from the Safeway app. All part of the cycle of life… or cycle of predatory commerce.