Huawei: Advertising on smartphone lock screens was a mistake

Huawei has stopped showing ads on his own smartphone. It was recently revealed that owners of a Huawei smartphone had received commercials on the lock screen. As Huawei learned in Digital Trends, it was a mistake. "The lock screens on our servers were accidentally published"Huawei said. Huawei's cloud team tested promotional mailings, which were accidentally distributed.

The other backgrounds are not clear. So we do not know why Huawei has tested the sending of commercials. Affected users reported impressions from the Booking.com travel agency, which appeared on the lock screen. The advertisement consisted of a landscape image with a clearly visible Booking.com logo and a link to the indicated location. None of the users approved the ads.

In order for the people concerned to no longer receive advertising, the images already downloaded must be deleted manually. Even if no new advertising is broadcast, images uploaded with the Booking.com logo are still present on the device.

Initially, users had badociated the ad with the pre-installed application on Huawei's Booking.com smartphone and had it uninstalled. Ads were still visible, although the app is no longer available.

The advertisement was broadcast via the Huawei smartphone magazine function. The magazine displays images automatically changing on the lock screen; Users can specify in their device settings which categories should be displayed. However, there is no setting for advertising channels and until now, the magazine function has not been used for commercials. This function can also be disabled in the smartphone settings.