Are there any pop up blockers available fot iPad? I have a new 32gb air and find all the pop up ads really annoying. i checked in the app store but couldn't find any.
if you know of any, please share. Thamks.
iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), IPhoto '09
Go to settings>Safari>block ups.
The last part is turn on block pop ups.
Thanks for your prompt reply. I followed your directions and found that block pop ups was already activated. On my iMac i have a pop up blocker and almost never am bothered by them. Not so on this iPad air.
You can try resetting your iPad by simultaneously pressing and holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until you see the Apple Logo. This can take up to 15 seconds so be patient and don't release the buttons until the logo appears.
Try again to see if you are still not blocking pos ups.
Aloha ufauxreal, Sorry for not responding sooner , the email isn't working properly tonight. Did you try Alfred DeRose's suggestion? Any luck?
There are no third-party pop-up blockers available in the App Store. That's not possible, since one app cannot modify the behavior of another, due to strict sandboxing restrictions.
You can try using an alternate browser to see if pop-up blocking might be better there than in Safari. However, many pop-ups these days aren't true pop-ups. That is, they're not actually separate windows, but just web page elements that get displayed on top of everything else. There's really nothing you can do about those except stop visiting sites that employ that kind of advertising.
YEs, i did the reset... still getting the annoying pop ups. I guess i'll just have to live with them.
The solution is simple, buy the App. The adds are the price you have to pay for getting the free version.
Which app? I'd gladly buy an app that would stop all these annoying pop ups.
I'm think you might have misunderstood, almost any App you download comes in two versions, one free and one you pay for.
The adds you are seeing aren't pop ups they are the price of the free App. I wasn't suggesting an App that blocks pop ups. Just purchase the App instead of using the free version. Very sorry for the misunderstanding. Or I misunderstood the problem and I apologize.
He is talking about pop-ups on Web sites in Safari. This has nothing to do with apps.
Aloha Alfred DeRose, That's what I first thought and now that I reread the entire post I see my mistake. Thank you, stay well. Bob
Aloha ufauxreal. My mistake, very sorrow for the misinformation. Bob
Exactly... This is Apple/Safari problem! It's getting to the point that using my iPhone or iPad to search the web is not worht it.
And the other annoying thing is how so many we pages keep loading more and more stuff and changing the screen scroll position.... Reading an article is next to impossible. Safari has to become better behaved even if it slows it down a bit.
I can appreciate advertisers want "eyes" but it's gotten to the point of being useless. I don't have any of these issues on my Windows systems using Firefox. I don't want to use an app for every website... wake up Apple and fix Safari!
We lock on the App Store sorted this out for me $1.99
I was seriously wondering why I bothered with the iPad until I got this app, only works on wifi however and utilizes a proxy service but that is fine for me as my iPad is wifi only, I solved the iPhone issue by getting a Galaxy S5.
Pop up blocker for iPad?
