I just got the new iOS app update with the same new features that Android received a few days ago.
Unfortunately 1.7.33 also introduced popup adds on the home screen 
(I guess it goes along with the first bullet point). Thankfully it appears that you can suppress them by selecting Menu, Settings, and then toggling off Special suggestions. Spoke too soon…ads still appear…
I have suggestions turned off and I still get the ads.
Yeah, I spoke too soon. I’m still getting them too. Let’s hope there is some way to turn the very intrusive ads off…
Maybe that’s a bug in the iOS version not applying the setting?
In Android when you disable suggestions it will, ironically, display a new suggestion: “If you turn on Special suggestions in the settings, you can get helpful news or marketing offers on products”.
I tried something else and it appears (at least so for) to suppress the annoying popup ads on the Home screen. From the Home screen click on the 3 dots upper right. Select Home insight settings and toggle off Insight messages. Note that I also cleared all selections (except for number of members) in Home life (Menu, Home life, and select location) so not sure which setting really did it.
I have the Arlo camera linked service, and now all of my cameras in the iOS app appear as VERY LARGE ICONS in the device lists. YUK!
Are you kidding - pop ups now?
Waiting to update until it can be confirmed these can be turned off permanently.
Thanks.
I have not seen anymore popup ads since I made the changes I listed above.
The SmartThings app on Apple Watch is getting a new widget that should make controlling devices faster, as well as an update that lets you switch between locations and control individual devices on your watch.