Before going on to teach how to reset or reset your advertising ID, it is important to know what it is for. Let's say it is the identifier for our phone that will be used by advertising networks and developers "Know" what kind of information or advertisements suit us and are more relevant.
It may happen that at some point our phone has passed through the hands of a friend or relative and they have looked for something "strange" so that certain ads will suddenly appear for, for example, protein cans to strengthen muscles or even some What other strange thing that leaves us perplexed wondering why we now get this type of advertising. When resetting the advertising ID start from scratch and ads will appear appropriately related to searches that we carry out from that moment.
In 2013 Google settings were added as part of Google Play services or Google Play Services. In these there are usually several interesting aspects to modify, such as the one that occurs with the advertising ID that I show below so that we can once again have the advertising according to the searches carried out from the phone.
How to reset or reset the advertising ID
- The first thing we must do is go to google settings from the app drawer
- From these Google settings we can access a series of options. We look for the services section
- In this section we select "Advertisements"
- In «Ads» we will find the option "Reset Advertising ID"
- When we select this option will remind us that this will replace the ID current ad with a new random number
- We accept and now we will have the ID reset
So now you know, if you find strange ads for products that don't have much to do with you after you have left the phone with your uncle or a friend, don't take long to reset the ID so that everything returns to normal.
