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

How to remove the WaPo election hell-toggle on iOS

By Sarah Jeong, features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. Some iOS users with the Washington Post app installed may have looked down at their device tonight only to find an undismissable black toggle hovering on their screen, with electoral vote counts in the 2024 presidential race slowly ticking upwards. 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.

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