Advertisements on Lock Screen in Samsung Mobile Phone

Following screenshot shows the advertisement displaying on lock screen in Samsung mobile phone:





I was shocked to see an ad showing on lock screen. I never saw any ad showing on lock screen in any Samsung mobile phone. Yeah, Xiaomi phones are well known to display ads but it was first time when I saw an ad on lock screen in Samsung smartphone.


Now there might be various reasons and sources behind the advertisement displaying on lock screen:

• The ad was displayed by Samsung itself
• The ad was displayed by Airtel apps as the ad was showing sponsored offer or promotion of Airtel service
• The ad was displayed by some other installed apps

First of all I thought that some Airtel app might displayed the ad on lock screen. You might remember that Airtel apps already showed such kind of ads on mobile phones in past:


My mobile phone contained following Airtel apps:

• My Airtel or Airtel Thanks
• Wync Music
• Airtel TV or Airtel Xstream

I checked all 3 apps settings and notifications were already disabled for all those apps.
Then I checked settings of all other installed apps. I had very few apps installed and all were already blocked to show notifications.

So I'm unsure what thing caused the advertisement banner showing on lock screen? It was shocking and irritating to see an ad displaying on mobile phone lock screen.

Did anyone else got any advertisement on mobile phone lock screen?