Samsung Galaxy smartphones now block ads in push notifications
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Key Points:
- Samsung's Device Care app update to version 13.8.80.7 introduces "Intelligent Blocking," a feature aimed at reducing annoying push notifications by identifying and managing advertising notifications.
- The Intelligent Blocking function analyzes the frequency and nature of push notifications, placing apps that send excessive advertising alerts into "deep sleep" mode to stop further notifications.
- Samsung notes that the system's classification of advertising versus useful notifications may not always be accurate, allowing users to unblock apps in the Device Care settings if important notifications are mistakenly blocked.
- The update continues to support the app's existing capabilities to monitor and manage power and memory usage, as well as battery protection features.