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AJFaithful's avatar
AJFaithful
Explorer
1 year ago

How to stop Auto launching apps?!

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping there's someone that can help me.

I bought a meta quest 3 a couple of days ago and it's okay I guess but there's something that's really doing my head in EVERY single time I turn on my meta quest; the horizon feeds app and the connections app auto launches. Is there a way to disable this? I find both apps absolutely useless and all they are are just apps trying to persuade me to download games that I have NO interest in whatsoever or trying to persuade me to add friends or find contacts by adding my Instagram account. NO. I DON'T WANT TO. It's really annoying me now because I have to close both apps (THAT ARE ALSO PERMANENTLY STUCK ON THE UNIVERSAL MENU) before I start doing what I want to do. 

If there's no solution to this I think I'm just going to return it because I don't want to spend nearly £500 on a device that's just basically a VR advertisement system. Might as well be an Amazon tablet with the bombardment of adverts 

11 Replies

  • user_901925786032222's avatar
    user_901925786032222
    Expert Consultant
    1 year ago

    Meta make all-but no profit on the headset so they are desperate for you to buy things in the store and engage with their social functions.

    • AJFaithful's avatar
      AJFaithful
      Explorer
      1 year ago

      So why don't they just let us buy what we know we want to buy instead of throwing games in my face that I have absolutely no interest in? I have no interest in downloading among us or mini golf but it's the first thing I see when I turn on my quest. They think it's going to persuade us to download them when in fact it's persuading me that I made a huge mistake and that I need to return the thing 😒

      • user_901925786032222's avatar
        user_901925786032222
        Expert Consultant
        1 year ago

        That's how advertising works. Show the people something they don't know they want, and some will find out they want it.

    • AJFaithful's avatar
      AJFaithful
      Explorer
      1 year ago

      I don't actually. I returned it. Really not happy with the lack of customisation overall and often buggy software

  • shoveler's avatar
    shoveler
    Explorer
    8 months ago

    I hate it, I literally never want to see these two tabs, I definitely don't want it to be the first thing I see when I go into the menu. Though I am a fan of U2 personally, this feels a lot like the time apple forced the new U2 album onto every iPhone, regardless of whether the user wanted it. This has to be customizable. Be better, meta. 

    • shoveler's avatar
      shoveler
      Explorer
      8 months ago

      I also don't really need to see a giant list of Gorilla Tag clones... I'm not a tiny child. Stop cluttering the store with this crap or make it filterable.