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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 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. (On my own iPhone it appears as the dynamic island.) 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.

The Washington Post app has put this little window at the top of my iPhone screen and I can’t make it go away. I don’t even know what it means. WHAT DO THE DASHES EVEN STAND FOR AT THIS…

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