How To Identify Apps Serving Pop Up Ads

How To Remove Pop Up Ads On Android Phone

There are popups all over the web and ads in many free apps, but that's to be expected. It's the cost of using free services. But these ads are constrained to the app or website, and they only show up when you're actively using it — they shouldn't ever pop up when you're using a different app or not using your android phone at all.

So that's not the type of ad we're d ealing with here. The type of popup that appears even when you're not interacting with your android phone is always caused by an adware app. Likely one that seemed to have legitimate functionality, and probably even an app you installed from Google Play. So it's not always easy to identify, in this article we will show you how to stop and remove pop up ads on android phone.

How To Stop And Remove Pop Ups on Android Phone

How to Stop pop-up Ads on the Android Browser

Open the Android web browser
Open up the app's settings. This is usually by the "three dots" (⋮) menu button but will vary by manufacturer.
Press "Advanced".
Tick the box labeled "Block pop-ups"

How to Stop pop up Ads on Chrome for Android

Open Chrome on Android.
Open up Chrome's settings by tapping the "three dots" (⋮) icon in the top right, and then tapping "settings".

3- On the screen that opens up, scroll down to "Site settings" and press it.

4- Scroll down to "Pop-ups" and press it to enable or disable pop-ups.

Alternatively, Opera for Android comes with pop-up blocking built-in and switched on as default, and also has a rather clever way of compressing pages to ensure your data allowance doesn't get chewed through when out and about. You can download it free of charge here.

5 Ways On How To Remove Pop Up Ads On Android

1. Scan Installed apps

Albeit inefficient, one way to find adware responsible for the incessant display of popups on your Android device is by manually scanning all the apps you installed on your phone.

Here's how to scan installed apps on your Android smartphone.

1.. Open your device "Settings"

2. Select "Apps & Notifications" and tap "See all apps"

3. Tap the drop-down button and select "Installed apps"

You should now see all the apps you manually installed on your device. If you discover any app with no icon, apps that looks suspicious, you should examine the app. And if it turns out that the app doesn't do anything or you cannot exactly remember when you installed a particular app, you should uninstall the app from your phone.

2. Check Current apps on Play Store

This is one of the most effective to find and remove apps displaying pop-up ads on your Android device. Whenever an ad pops up on your screen, close the app and head over to check the last used app on your phone. By doing this, the Play Store will show you the most recent app i.e. the one responsible for the ad.

To check the last used app on your phone,

1.. Close the pop-up ad and launch the Google Play Store app

2. Tap the hamburger menu button at the top-right corner of the app

3. Select "My apps & games"

4. Under the "Installed" section, tap the "Sort By icon" and select "Last used"

5. This will display all the apps installed on your device in the order which you recently used them.

If you do this immediately you an ad pops up on your display, the app displaying the pop-up ads will be among the top results on the list.

3. Notification Tray

If the pop-up ads in your notification tray, you can easily find out the app behind such ad. Simply long-press the notification and tap the 'i' button that appears to see more information about the app.

You will be redirected to the application's permission page where you can revoke some the app's access or uninstall the app entirely — if you don't need/use the app.

4. Scan currently open apps

If you have a few apps (says 2–4) currently opened on your device and a pop-up ad appears on your screen, tap the overview button in the navigation bar to see all apps that are currently open.

You can then carefully scan the apps to predict which one is serving the popups.

5. Use Third-Party Adware & Ad Detectors

Still can find the offending adware displaying pop-up ads on your phone? Perhaps you should resort to using third-party apps dedicated to hunting down pop-ups and removing adware.

Some examples of these ad detection apps include App Watch, Lookout Security, AppBrain Ad Detector, Addons Detector, Popup Ad Detector, etc.

While some adware are totally harmless, some are perilous. If left uncontrolled, these pop-up ads will not only ruin your experience but also steal your personal information, use up your data/WiFi bandwidth, record phone conversations, download other malware, etc. To avoid these, you should check totally get rid of pop-up ads on your phone using the methods listed above.