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How to find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge?

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You can find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge with the Recent button.

We all hate app pushing pop up ads

As most of Galaxy S7 owners use a lot of free apps. We understand many app developers rely on ad revenue to pay their bills.

So, normally we can tolerate ads in apps without installing the ad blocker apps. Just FYI, some app blockers may replace original ads with their own ads. So these guys are using other developers’ work to earn money.

Anyway, the majority of Galaxy S7 owners may get angry when some apps push pop up ads which affect your phone usage unless you tap the ad or close the app.

Even worse, some nasty apps may push pop up ads when the app is NOT in use.  They deliberately to hide the app pushing pop up ads.

For example, as shown below, when I browsed my own website with Chrome browser, and suddenly, a pop up ads blocked my view as shown below.

I have no way to close this pop up ad. The X in the pop up ad actually direct me to Google Play store to install the poor app, or to some suspicious sites.

This is an example of malicious pop up ad. I believe most of us hate them.

I know I do not use such pop up ads in the website because this is our own website. I know the ad types and sources.

I know Chrome never push pop up ads.

I know my ISP does not have such a shabby business.

Then where does this pop ads come?

So I decided to dig it further to find out the app pushing pop up ads.

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How to find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge?

Such ads do not show all times.  Sometimes, it shows once a day or twice a day or every the other day.

I know such nasty pop up ads are pushed by some apps installed on my Galaxy S7 edge.  But you do not know which one because the app developer deliberately tried to hide app.

Initially, I thought, it is through notification. So, I disabled notification for most suspicious apps.

But this does not solve the issue. A developer told me it is from a running service, not through notification system.

And my friend shared his method to find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 .

The method is simple.

Although the app developer is trying to hide the app, Android does not allow anonymous processes (screen re-draw).

So, once you get such a nasty pop up ad, tap the Recent button.

Yes, the actual app pushing pop up ads are shown in the list of recent apps.

As shown in the screenshot above, you can find the nasty app is ES file explorer! The app is trying to impersonate itself as Chrome browser!!  You now know how bad such developers are!!!!

ES file explorer used to be one of the best file explorer in Android. But now, it it time to uninstall it. Actually many users already shared their findings of the abnormal behavior of this app.

If you are curious, I am now using ASUS File explorer.  I don’t think ASUS would ever push such nasty pop up ads!

Please note, in my phone, the bad guy is ES File explorer as an example. In your phone, it could be some other apps.

Next time, when you get such pop up ads, tap Recent button to find out the app pushing pop up ads.

Can I stop such apps from pushing pop up ads?

First, such app developers are not trustworthy. You should uninstall the app immediately if possible because you don’t know how low they can go.

But if for whatever reasons, you cannot uninstall the app right now,  you may try to block it.

Such apps need the permissions to draw over other apps.  You can remove the permission for that app in Application manager.

A developer reminded me it is possible for a criminal to bypass the permission.

So, the solution is still to uninstall the app.

Do you know how to find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge?

If you have any questions or encounter any problems to find out the app pushing pop up ads in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, please let us know your questions or problems in the comment box below.

The community will try to help you.

You can get the official Samsung Galaxy S7 user manual (user guide) in your local language here, and Galaxy S7 edge user manual (user guide) in your local language here.

For other guides on using Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, please check Galaxy S7 online manual page.

For detailed Galaxy S7 how-to guides, please check Galaxy S7 how-to guides page.

For more Galaxy S7 camera guides, please check Galaxy S7 camera guide page.


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Comments

  1. Thank you so much for this article. My moms phone just started receiving such pop up ads, so we waited for another one and found out it was Klondike solitaire so we uninstalled it, and tah dah, they never came back again.

    Thank you so much!

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  2. Agree with the Klondike Solitare comment. It was installed without my knowledge along with the Oreo upgrade.

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  3. I checked Recent Apps and the icon was white with no text which means I can’t tell which app is pushing the pop up?ads. I get them for “Wish” which appears to be shopping and a video game “Final Fantasy”. I will add more later if I can figure anything out. It interrupts everytbing I do on my phone.

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  4. Thank you! So simple, yet so useful.

    For those that say it doesn’t work I’d like to emphasize something- Do NOT clear the ad from your screen. If you clear the ad first, then it will not show up.
    For me, the issue was with Klondike Solitaire. I’m not sure how it even got installed, but a recent Verizon Droid update (to Oreo, I think) allowed it to start popping up full screen ads like crazy. This cleared it. Thank you.

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  5. Hello,

    I have a new ad that pops up every time I get a phone call from somebody. It is a picture of a cartoon man holding a phone. There is a different add every time with the same cartoon. I have taken some screenshots of this if that helps. Please help!

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  7. I have been getting full page pop up ads for a month now, and they happen all the time. When I unlock my phone, when in the middle of a call or writing a text/e-mail, and even when plugging in a charger or putting on the wireless desktop charger. It is ALWAYS A GOOGLE PLAY app popup,Usually a game,Period tracker,or even a anti virus app ironically!
    I have tried everything listed here to no avail as well as adding malware blockers(promptly deleting them again after no success),and even deleting most of my often used apps.

    How else can I track the malware culprit? These google play popups don’t include any info about what app sent them!!!!!

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  8. Hello !
    I have a quite unique problem with a pop up ad . No matter what I am doing , recently a tear shaped ad appears in the upper right corner of my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone freezing my entire screen for about 2 minutes then it suddenly disappears . How can I get rid of it ?

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  9. This article really helped the clicking the recents button thing was exactly the solution. I closed all apps and then locked and unlocked my phone (the trigger for the ad) and then clicked recents button and the app was there. I’m on the SG s8+ tho but it worked on the first try. Thanks!!

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  10. I feel lucky to have found this. Thank you very much, as the unwanted ad was driving me nuts.I immediately hit the recent button and directly behind that was Facebook, except it was all white with no text. I pushed the X on the upper right, restarted my phone and it’s gone! Yay! Of course, now that I’ve written this. I better check one more time.
    Sweeeet!
    Thank you!

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  11. The article is 100% incorrect and useless. A full page ad pops up, hit the recent button, and nothing shows or just an app that you loaded yourself such as Facebook, messenger, Instagram, etc… no of which are slamming your phone with full page pop up ads. The full page ads are allowed by Android, Android in no way shows you the app or malicious software that is attacking your phone with ads. Install a popup blocker, start uninstalling every app in reverse order until the popups stop, or backup and format you phone.

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  12. I thought looking under the recent button was going to have it. Unfortunatly there is no name in the title bar in my case it is just a solid red bar.

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  14. This is 100% WRONG article.

    I faced the same issue but after I removed “malicious” app which name was put in the header nothing really changed! I kept removing all apps which shows in the title of every ads and it seems that malicious app just pretend it to be those apps, which actually don’t show any ads to you.

    It became obvious first when ads window had Telegram title, and I pretty much sure that Telegram don’t need to spam any ads because it is quite popular. But even after I removed Telegram ads continued to popup but this time with “Oculus Driver” title which was not app at all and I have no idea how can I remove it and obviously the malicious app is not Oculus Driver but some other app on my Samsung S8

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  15. I’m having an issue with my galaxy s7 playing ads for heroes of the storm out loud. I can’t figure out what ap is pushing them. It happens even when I’m not using my phone! Even when all the apps are closed! I haven’t downloaded any new apps. What is going on?!

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