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As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "

As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "Rules for thee, but not for me"

devoutsalsa 5y ago
The good ol' "do as I say & not as I do" routine.
marcellus23 5y ago
To be honest, Apple never enforces that rule on third parties anyway.
kart23 5y ago
Those are so annoying. Thankfully you can turn the notifications off.
reaperducer 5y ago
For those of you not on iOS, here's what one of those notification spams from Apple looks like: https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1393380938642563072 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1393380938642563072 See also: Ads for Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and Apple's fitness thing at the top of the Settings app. https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1390696646854397955 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1390696646854397955 Fake notification alerts in the App Store to get you to tap on the Apple Arcade button to show you a subscription ad. Spam from Apple that I can't seem to stop receiving, even though I'm unsubscribed from every Apple list. I've gone as far as to contact AppleCare about it. I spent an hour on the phone with someone at AppleCare who couldn't explain why I keep getting Apple Arcade spam in my e-mail. https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1394843930932523015 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1394843930932523015
- abacadaba 5y ago
  !$#!#@ just when i'm just about ready to pull the trigger and switch to iOS you tell me this.. save us pinephone
wlesieutre 5y ago
Apple no longer prohibits ads in notifications as of March last year https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notification-advertising-updates-dating-app-review-guidelines-and-more/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notific... Good way to get your notification privileges revoked though. I wish Apple would add granular notification categories within apps so that you could approve particular types of notifications while denying others. A quick google says Android 8 did this in 2017. Apple's policy on this is to require in-app configuration to opt out of marketing messages, rather than a way to configure it through the OS.
- RandallBrown 5y ago
  Apple is adding something like what you want in iOS 15. https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification/ https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification...
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    Sort of like what I want, but relies of developers to decide what is passive/active/time-sensitive/critical, and instead of being able to fix it the only recourse is to say "no notifications." I do see what Apple is going for, in that these predefined categories let you automate notification handling with Focus modes, but I have a feeling a lot of apps will have an inflated opinion of how important "new episodes of ____ are available" is to me.
- pseudalopex 5y ago
  Many apps send marketing notifications anyway. And there seems to be no way to report it.
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    Not sure what you mean by "send marketing notifications anyway," since they are allowed to do that now. Are you saying they do it after you opt-out of the marketing notifications in-app?

As an iOS user, there's a couple weird ones: Apple prohibits apps from putting ads in notifications, but sends a notification ad for every new Apple TV+ show. "Rules for thee, but not for me"

devoutsalsa 5y ago

The good ol' "do as I say & not as I do" routine.

marcellus23 5y ago

To be honest, Apple never enforces that rule on third parties anyway.

kart23 5y ago

Those are so annoying. Thankfully you can turn the notifications off.

reaperducer 5y ago

For those of you not on iOS, here's what one of those notification spams from Apple looks like: https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1393380938642563072 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1393380938642563072 See also: Ads for Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and Apple's fitness thing at the top of the Settings app. https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1390696646854397955 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1390696646854397955 Fake notification alerts in the App Store to get you to tap on the Apple Arcade button to show you a subscription ad. Spam from Apple that I can't seem to stop receiving, even though I'm unsubscribed from every Apple list. I've gone as far as to contact AppleCare about it. I spent an hour on the phone with someone at AppleCare who couldn't explain why I keep getting Apple Arcade spam in my e-mail. https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1394843930932523015 https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1394843930932523015

abacadaba 5y ago
!$#!#@ just when i'm just about ready to pull the trigger and switch to iOS you tell me this.. save us pinephone

wlesieutre 5y ago

Apple no longer prohibits ads in notifications as of March last year https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notification-advertising-updates-dating-app-review-guidelines-and-more/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notific... Good way to get your notification privileges revoked though. I wish Apple would add granular notification categories within apps so that you could approve particular types of notifications while denying others. A quick google says Android 8 did this in 2017. Apple's policy on this is to require in-app configuration to opt out of marketing messages, rather than a way to configure it through the OS.

RandallBrown 5y ago
Apple is adding something like what you want in iOS 15. https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification/ https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification...
- wlesieutre 5y ago
  Sort of like what I want, but relies of developers to decide what is passive/active/time-sensitive/critical, and instead of being able to fix it the only recourse is to say "no notifications." I do see what Apple is going for, in that these predefined categories let you automate notification handling with Focus modes, but I have a feeling a lot of apps will have an inflated opinion of how important "new episodes of ____ are available" is to me.
pseudalopex 5y ago
Many apps send marketing notifications anyway. And there seems to be no way to report it.
- wlesieutre 5y ago
  Not sure what you mean by "send marketing notifications anyway," since they are allowed to do that now. Are you saying they do it after you opt-out of the marketing notifications in-app?