What’s happened? Leaked builds of One UI 8.5, Samsung’s upcoming user interface, now include a new setting in the “Device Care” section.

The new feature is called “Block apps with excessive ads.”

This tool automatically identifies apps that send frequent ad notifications.

The feature can put such apps into deep sleep mode or block their ad notifications altogether.

The feature offers two modes: a “Basic blocking” mode and an “Intelligent blocking” mode.

One UI 8.5: Device care has added a new feature, ‘Block apps with excessive ads.’ pic.twitter.com/BS1PNrG6a1 — Tarun Vats (@tarunvats33) December 1, 2025

Why is this important? The “Basic blocking” mode targets known ad-heavy apps, while the “Intelligent blocking” mode uses on-device analysis of notifications to detect and bloc

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