{"id":116491,"date":"2024-08-06T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/ios-18-has-fulfilled-my-dream-of-destroying-ads-with-a-thanos-snap\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T09:36:19","slug":"ios-18-has-fulfilled-my-dream-of-destroying-ads-with-a-thanos-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/ios-18-has-fulfilled-my-dream-of-destroying-ads-with-a-thanos-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Not a day goes by without me getting frustrated at the state of the mobile web. I rarely use my iPhone to read news articles now because every time I do there\u2019s a cookie prompt obstructing what I want to read, or so many ads on a page that I can\u2019t even see the text anymore. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apple is clearly just as frustrated as I am, so it\u2019s added a Thanos snap animation to iOS 18 that wipes out annoying parts of websites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new \u201cDistraction Control\u201d feature<\/a> showed up in Safari earlier this week in the fifth beta of iOS 18 and iPadOS18. It\u2019s designed to let you temporarily remove annoying and distracting elements from a mobile website, including cookie prompts, ads, those infuriating autoplay videos that follow you around while you scroll a site, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The animation is a beautiful nod to the Thanos snap, and it certainly feels like I\u2019m wielding all six Infinity Stones and snapping my fingers to exterminate half of the crap that exists on mobile websites these days. I also don\u2019t feel guilty about it. This isn\u2019t an adblocker, so it\u2019s only temporary and nothing persists. You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MacRumors <\/em>has a great hands-on video<\/a> demonstrating how it all works, but I just wish there was an easier way of using Distraction Control. In the latest iOS 18 beta 5 release you have to tap on the same button you\u2019d use to enable the reader mode \u2014 which also lets you focus in on text on a website \u2014 to be able to hide parts of webpages. If there was a gesture to swipe these annoying ads away then that would make this even more useful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Unless Apple does some last minute changes to iOS 18, this new Distraction Control feature should arrive as part of the final iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 release, likely to arrive next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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