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My feature request for iOS: Allow me to disable notifications from an app unless I have opened it within the last X hours. I’d set it to a couple hours. My fo

My feature request for iOS: Allow me to disable notifications from an app unless I have opened it within the last X hours. I’d set it to a couple hours. My food apps could then tell me the order is ready, but can’t spam me with “Special Offers For You” days later. Maybe I can do this with an automation?

fennecfoxy 3y ago
Or just fix the root problem so that the notification is just a notification and not a way to harvest data, I guess.
ubermonkey 3y ago
I'd LOVE this. I also want something else that I wonder if I could dummy up myself. I want to change certain phone behaviors based on whether or not a given Bluetooth device is connected. My use case is "when I'm on my motorcycle, connected to headset audio, I want (a) the phone to read me texts and (b) to turn on navigation audio." I do not want either of these things UNLESS I'm on the motorcycle with the Cardo turned on.
- acosmism 3y ago
  it might be possible to get this together using apple's "shortcuts" app
  - ubermonkey 3y ago
    No hooks for what I want there, sadly.
piva00 3y ago
Seconding that I'd love this. At the same time, has App Store's guidelines/rules changed to allow spammy ads notifications? It used to be 100% disallowed and I worked for a company that got an app denied because of it until changed, nowadays it seems to just be completely common. I fucking hate it.
- yreg 3y ago
  Yeah, Apple should properly write/enforce App Store rules on this. Make marketing notification a separate permission if necessary and be strict about it. After all, topics like this are why we succumb to their curation and App Store monopoly instead of using more open devices.
  - cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
    Apple with its current incentives will never do this. I’m sure they know quite well which % of their services revenue comes from enticing push notifications from casino games. But with all that said, don’t kid yourself with any thoughts that the “we” in your sentence refers to anything more than a practically immaterially small contingent of nerds. Poll 100 people off the street and for the vast majority of them, a more “open” mobile platform is—at best—some nebulous advantage of owning an Android phone that some dweeby family member ranted to them about. In reality, they are reality not directly making use of any of that “openness”, instead just using a worse, malware-infested iPhone alternative.
    - basch 3y ago
      An ad for the product itself is very different than an app sending a third party app as a notification. They absolutely need to enforce the latter as not ok.
    - yreg 3y ago
      Making marketing notifications a separate permission doesn't really nerf the casino games much. And I believe the "we" refers to far more people than you describe. It's ultimately a question of UX.
  - latexr 3y ago
    They had rules for this. But apps like Uber never followed them and Apple never enforced it. Then Apple itself started doing it. Then they revised the rule to allow it.
- MaxikCZ 3y ago

fennecfoxy 3y ago

Or just fix the root problem so that the notification is just a notification and not a way to harvest data, I guess.

ubermonkey 3y ago

I'd LOVE this. I also want something else that I wonder if I could dummy up myself. I want to change certain phone behaviors based on whether or not a given Bluetooth device is connected. My use case is "when I'm on my motorcycle, connected to headset audio, I want (a) the phone to read me texts and (b) to turn on navigation audio." I do not want either of these things UNLESS I'm on the motorcycle with the Cardo turned on.

acosmism 3y ago
it might be possible to get this together using apple's "shortcuts" app
- ubermonkey 3y ago
  No hooks for what I want there, sadly.

piva00 3y ago

Seconding that I'd love this. At the same time, has App Store's guidelines/rules changed to allow spammy ads notifications? It used to be 100% disallowed and I worked for a company that got an app denied because of it until changed, nowadays it seems to just be completely common. I fucking hate it.

yreg 3y ago
Yeah, Apple should properly write/enforce App Store rules on this. Make marketing notification a separate permission if necessary and be strict about it. After all, topics like this are why we succumb to their curation and App Store monopoly instead of using more open devices.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
  Apple with its current incentives will never do this. I’m sure they know quite well which % of their services revenue comes from enticing push notifications from casino games. But with all that said, don’t kid yourself with any thoughts that the “we” in your sentence refers to anything more than a practically immaterially small contingent of nerds. Poll 100 people off the street and for the vast majority of them, a more “open” mobile platform is—at best—some nebulous advantage of owning an Android phone that some dweeby family member ranted to them about. In reality, they are reality not directly making use of any of that “openness”, instead just using a worse, malware-infested iPhone alternative.
  - basch 3y ago
    An ad for the product itself is very different than an app sending a third party app as a notification. They absolutely need to enforce the latter as not ok.
  - yreg 3y ago
    Making marketing notifications a separate permission doesn't really nerf the casino games much. And I believe the "we" refers to far more people than you describe. It's ultimately a question of UX.
- latexr 3y ago
  They had rules for this. But apps like Uber never followed them and Apple never enforced it. Then Apple itself started doing it. Then they revised the rule to allow it.
MaxikCZ 3y ago