If the Electoral College has invaded your phone screen, here’s how to get rid of it

Some iOS users with the Washington Post app installed whitethorn person looked down astatine their device contiguous lone to find an undismissable achromatic toggle hovering connected their screen, with electoral ballot counts successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention dilatory ticking upwards. (On my ain iPhone it appears arsenic the dynamic island.) If you pat connected it it simply expands to springiness you much accusation astir the race, on with small drawn portraits of the candidates, which is decidedly not the contented you privation if you were conscionable trying to find the fastener to marque the full happening spell away.

It took maine a small spot of jumping astir to fig retired however to get escaped of it, but this is however to disregard the Electoral College hell-toggle connected iOS:

Go to your Settings. Select Apps towards the bottom. Scroll down to the Wash Post app. Click connected Live Activities. Turn disconnected the toggle Allow Live Activities. The hell-toggle should vanish.

If you privation to bring it back, crook connected Allow Live Activities again, and past spell into the Washington Post app. Click connected the cogwheel instrumentality icon successful the precocious close to entree your settings. Select Live Activity Settings and crook connected the toggle to let unrecorded updates from the statesmanlike election. You whitethorn request to besides click connected “Start Presidential Activity” beneath that.

Apparently Apple News besides has a hell-toggle, and it presumably tin beryllium dismissed successful your iOS settings successful a akin fashion. I americium not plagued with the Apple News hell-toggle, truthful I wouldn’t know.