Some iOS users with the app installed may have tonight only to find an undismissable black toggle hovering on their screen, with electoral vote counts in the 2024 presidential race slowly ticking upwards. (On my own iPhone it appears as the dynamic island.) If you tap on it it merely expands to give you more information about the race, along with little drawn portraits of the candidates, which is decidedly not the content you want if you were just trying to find the button to make the whole thing go away.
It took me a little bit of jumping around to figure out how to get rid of it, but this is how to dismiss the Electoral College hell-toggle on iOS: Go to your . Select towards the bottom. Scroll down to the app.
Click on . Turn off the toggle . The hell-toggle should vanish.
If you want to bring it back, turn on again, and then go into the app. Click on the gear wheel icon in the upper right to access your settings. Select and turn on the toggle to allow live updates from the presidential election.
You may need to also click on “Start Presidential Activity” beneath that. Apparently also has a hell-toggle, and it presumably can be dismissed in your iOS settings in a similar fashion. I am not plagued with the Apple News hell-toggle, so I wouldn’t know.
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