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In brief: Huawei starts showing ads on smartphone lock screens

Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei, has started showing ads for hotel reservation website, Booking.com, on the lock screens of their phones. According to Android Police, the P30 Pro, P20 Pro, P20, P20 Lite, and Honor 10 in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, and Germany have been affected. 9to5Google adds that Huawei seems to have […]
  • Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei, has started showing ads for hotel reservation website, Booking.com, on the lock screens of their phones.
  • According to Android Police, the P30 Pro, P20 Pro, P20, P20 Lite, and Honor 10 in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, and Germany have been affected.
  • 9to5Google adds that Huawei seems to have included advertising wallpapers into the default “Magazine Unlock” folder on users’ devices, which means anyone not changing their default wallpapers will see them.
  • Deleting the backgrounds from the phone, or changing to a non-default image, will get rid of the ads.
  • The company has declined to say how this issue occurred, instead they have reported that they have taken down these lock-screen images from their servers and they should not be appearing on lock-screen interfaces anymore.

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