Problems with a third party launcher...Galaxy A05s

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One of my parents has experienced an issue recently that I would like to share, in case it is helpful to others. 

I am not sure where he picked it up from, or which app installed it, but it seems a different launcher was installed to his phone that is just swamped with spam adverts and would be a security concern to me. 

It took me a whilst hunting around in the phone settings to find an app installation called 'weather home' was installed and replaced the default ',OneUI' from Samsung. 

To remove this... need to go to settings - apps - choose default apps. Then go to the 'home app' option and select ''one ui home'.

Then i would recommend going back to apps... find the 'weather home,' app... and uninstall it. 

This UI that installed itself over the top of one ui from Samsung, seemed to just constantly spam adverts and made the phone quite unusable... like a viral app might do.

Hope these tips help anyone else that might have experienced a similar problem.

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[JAMES4578]

@smiley Yes that would be a bit worrying ,need to be vigilant but sometimes will need to sort things like this. It is a useful guide.

[Moiramon]

Just had a search for that and it seems it's now been removed from the play store. Looks like it was disguised as a weather app.

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That's good to hear. It really is a pain to handle once it takes control of the home screens. It took me a while to figure out what was going on as well 😉 👍

I have a good grasp of oneUI... but for the elders and who don't know Samsung or UI very well... it was quite confusing for him

[Moiramon]

I was just curious. Couldn't find it on the play store so did a web search and when clicking on a link it came up as nothing found. 👍

[Star_girl]

Maybe they were reading a newspaper and they've got it from an advert. It happened to me as well until I learned to dodge these nosey adverts.