Pop ups "force open" App Store

100% GUARANTEED SOLUTION HERE.

We may not be able to delete the App Store, but we are certainly able to restrict ourselves access from it.

Go to settings and find the page that allows you to set restrictions (the sort of stuff you do to a child's device if you don't want them doing certain things).

Next, enable restrictions and set yourself a password that you will remember.

Disable access to anything related to the App Store.

App Store is no longer accessible to be opened. Period.

If you have the desire to use it again, simply enter your password at the same page, and re-enable the apps.

You're welcome:)

Genius! I thought blocking the App Store meant you would still be able to browse, but not buy. No, restricting it makes it impossible to even open the App Store. This solution makes opening the App Store more troublesome, but I hardly use it anyway.

This will do until Apple fixes this problem (probably never). I heard you can also use a browser that lets you report as a desktop browser to the site, which will also prevent popups. iCab is one such browser.

Thanks a million. I love The Chive but it was getting stupid where the App Store would open after browsing for 6-10 SECONDS of a picture gallery. It was unusable! This is the most insane fix but it works so thank you! We shouldn't have to disable it completely but oh well. Apple is just stopping us from actually using their service by offering a broken one.

That setting made no differance on my new iPad. I used a link in this discussion to contact Apple to share my displeasure.

Did you disable the iTunes Store as well? In fact I think this may be the key thing. I still got pop-ups when I didn't disable it, and only disabling it (allowing Installing Apps) seems to have stopped pop-ups.

As a user, that solution prevents me from buying me whatever I want so, not really what I wanted.

As a dev... I just wanted to register here that this seems to be the intended behaviour for links. I am working on this website for a musician who actually wants to sell his albums from iTunes Store. I made his album pictures link to the iTunes Stores. For desktops it works just fine, if the person wants to buy it, they click it. that's it. But I was shocked when I went to test the site on my iPhone, and it immediately opened the itunes Store. I NEVER meant the site to be like that. I HAVEN'T yet found a way to make it work differently. So just to let you guys know. Devs aren't evil.

*wanders back to dev forums*

SO my iPad 4 is possessed ?

In the the last couple of weeks i keep getting automatically being redirected to the App Store when using Apples browser?

I'm not touching anything, just boom out of Safari and into apps store. I've also had my setting set the same, which is the same as others here have suggested. But still being redirected way too many times a day!

THis ( so why the caps on the first two letters of a new paragraph now) is absolutely crazy for apple to allow these redirects, especially since all the available tools are in force to prevent such behaviour !

ANd and to those of you that don't think it's an Apple problem, I ask you why my Windows 7/8 devices NEVER do this.

MY iPad and phone are getting more buggy and useless by the day!

THANK THE LORD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS PROBLEM I THOUGHT MY PHONE WAS INFECTED OR SOMETHING😠

TCortese7, you phenomenal god-like being, thank you for this genius answer! I've seen the App Store way more than I normally would due to this issue, cos otherwise it's not like I'm buying an app every other day. Again, thank you!!!

Well I did everything I could find to do. After the big restore, which was fun in of itself. For some reason iTunes just disappears from windows after updating or trying to update. So after numerous attempts at getting iTunes working again,update wouldn't work from iTunes itself which finally caused iTunes to physically disappear from windows? Had to download iTunes and reinstall, even had trouble downloading the software!

in any case a clean install and restore the issue hasnt shown up, but I'm still getting system reboots when using Safari. You can see hesitation in safari as if It's having trouble doing something, then BANG I'm shown the apple logo and a reboot is in progress.

KInd of reminds me of the early Days of windows, when it didn't handle multi-tasking errors very well.

HOw ironic how well windows works these days compared to my two IOS7 devices !

I had the problem also. A few days ago, bought the Weblock app for $2, and I haven't had the problem since then. It takes a couple of minutes to set up the app according to the instructions and your preferences, but it seems to work.

I Downloaded a VPN and set my location to Canda which made it stop.

I downloaded the app Weblock from the AppStore and that did the trick for me.

TCortese7's solution did not work for me, still having the issue.

this is incredibly annoying an unacceptable behavior in a product. just the messages on this thread cover a year, i can't believe apple has let this persist for so long.

This problem, instead of going away, has become ubiquitous. When advertisers started doing this and realized Apple was unwilling to stop it, they expanded their use. Now its a problem on a wide variety of respectable sites, including Keenspot, HuffPo, CNN, NYT, and more. Apple needs to forbid opening app store links from Safari, period. End of story. Any other solution will inevitably be worked around.