Samsung appears to have removed ads from its stock apps as promised

A major downside to using a Samsung phone is finally being resolved, as the company appears to have finally removed ads from some of its stock apps. A Edge Staff report that they are not seeing ads in the Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Health apps, although they said they had to force close and reopen the Health app to remove the banner ad. 9to5Google says he sees the ads have also been removed.

The move is expected – the company promised in August that it would remove ads from apps like Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Theme “later this year” – but it’s good to see Samsung following through.

When asked to comment, Samsung did not confirm the deletions were in effect now, pointing to the same statement on the changes to The edge in August. However, TizenHelp reports that a Samsung employee confirmed the changes to Samsung Health in a forum post.