You’ve probably visited a website like Reddit or LinkedIn on your iPhone only to be greeted with an annoying, almost full-screen pop-up prompting you to view the content in their app instead of the website.
It is common practice for websites that have companion iOS apps to prompt users to open (if they already have the app installed) or download their app from the App Store to view the content they are trying to view. However, this can be very annoying for end users, as these pop-ups are usually quite intrusive to the actual content, creating an inappropriate experience.
Fortunately, there is a new way to block these pop-ups in Safari on iPhone and iPad. Developer Alex Zamoshchin has created a new Safari extension called Banish (via Daring Fireball) that can run on iOS and iPadOS and is designed specifically to get rid of these pop-ups. The $2 app helps eliminate most of these pop-ups in popular web versions of apps, but doesn’t get rid of similar banners that appear at the top of Safari to recommend opening the current page in an installed app.
The banner at the top of Safari is built into Safari and WebKit itself, so to get rid of them, you’ll need to uninstall the respective app from your device. Banish instead gets rid of pop-ups embedded in websites themselves.
To use Banish, download it from the App Store and follow the on-screen instructions to give the app the necessary permissions in Settings, Safari, and Extensions. You can learn more about Banish here.
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