Weird pop up on my phone (and iPad)

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a bizarre pop up show up in my browser on my phone. And now it see it on my iPad too. How do I make this stop?


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Posted on Mar 19, 2018 9:02 PM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2018 9:05 PM

It's spam. Close down your browser (close the window, then double-click the Home key and swipe up on the thumbnail to completely shut it down), clear the Website & History Data under Settings>Safari. Be more wary of the websites you visit.


Best of luck,


GB

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Mar 19, 2018 9:20 PM in response to shavasana35

Once you've done the steps in How to block pop-ups in Safari - Apple Support there's not much else other than what was mentioned above for workarounds. For a particularly pernicious popup that doesn't go away even after those steps the worst I've ever had to do is add the extra step of restarting the phone(only slide to power off unless the phone is frozen) before starting safari again.

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