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I just saw this today and was shocked; I have disabled notifications for many apps because they sent an errant ad in-between more necessary messages. I persona

I just saw this today and was shocked; I have disabled notifications for many apps because they sent an errant ad in-between more necessary messages. I personally would love it if Apple would allow for some kind of filtering of 'offers' vs substantive notifications across iOS, but this gives me less hope of that ever happening.

KMnO4 1y ago
Ugh, I’ve been wanting this forever. I DON’T want Uber Eats to tell me I should order pizza tonight. I do want to know when the delivery driver is outside.
- jallmann 1y ago
  Uber is blatantly abusing push notifications for marketing, it is so bad ... for smaller apps this would be an App Store ToS violation and grounds for removal. The double standard with larger apps is very upsetting.
- tensor 1y ago
  Yeah I turned off all uber app notifications. It's pretty annoying as now I don't know when the food has come or when the driver is here, but the amount of ads I will tolerate is exactly zero.
- joshstrange 1y ago
  This 100%. Hell, give me a way to write code to filter notifications and I'll do it myself. I get so frustrated by apps that I need notifications on for but I don't want marketing BS, unfortunately there is no middle ground. On top of filtering Apple should force app developers to segment their push notifications and allow users to block different types. This would be completely in line with Apple's _stated_ priorities and a great thing to advertise (I can imagine the commercials for it already).
  - krackers 1y ago
    I think you can do this on Android (or at least you used to be able to with Tasker when rooted, since it has [used to have] the ability to read notifications and dismiss notifications)
- WorldMaker 1y ago
  Some of the Uber competitors use Live Activities for when the delivery driver is on the way/outside, so you can bin their other notifications into a Notification Summary. I really appreciate Notification Summaries and the distinction of Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications as "can break out of summaries". Unfortunately each app has to opt in to using these other two things for their non-promotional stuff, and also can lie and mark their promotional stuff as "Time Sensitive" (I'm looking at you LinkedIn, which for me is now banned from all notifications forever, you misused them too much and I don't need you).
dabbz 1y ago
yea... I want to disable notifications but I don't want to miss my Apple Card payment notifications. Now my thought is to cancel my Apple Card so I can disable notifications and not miss anything. Notification ads are the modern day popup.
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eliaspro 1y ago
On Android, notifications can use different channels/categories. What is immediately worth a one-star review of an App for me (including the corresponding comment with the reasons), when it uses it "Important" channel to send me some ad or other stupid notification like "Please rate me".
- rconti 1y ago
  One thing I've noticed on iOS is that often app updates seem to reset my preferences. Not every update, of course, but I notice notifications months/years after I am 100% positive I disabled that category previously.
- WorldMaker 1y ago
  iOS has different channels in Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications. Live Activities are hard to miss because have very different style of UI (meant for active ongoing things like "current sporting event" and "pizza delivery tracker"), but most users don't notice "Time Sensitive" to take advantage of them until they turn on Notification Summaries. (Notification Summaries collect most notifications into a once-every-so-often, as you choose to schedule it, "newspaper", but Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" still show up immediately.) Abusing "Time Sensitive" is also a "time to give a bad review" case for me, too.
AdamN 1y ago
I don't want the filter. An app sends me a notification like that, all notifications are banned.
- kimos 1y ago
  The point is for apps where notifications at part of the core functionality. Uber, but also the app for your car or home alarm or baby monitor or whatever.
  - AdamN 1y ago
    Uber?? I think I've turned off notifications for that. Baby monitor I'd prefer radio - is an iPhone really reliable enough??? Car/home alarms I guess make sense but it always seems odd to me that people have this stuff and then cheap locks, cheap doors, and all sorts of security gaps which should be fixed before that final 1% of security one might get from a home alarm app.

KMnO4 1y ago

Ugh, I’ve been wanting this forever. I DON’T want Uber Eats to tell me I should order pizza tonight. I do want to know when the delivery driver is outside.

jallmann 1y ago
Uber is blatantly abusing push notifications for marketing, it is so bad ... for smaller apps this would be an App Store ToS violation and grounds for removal. The double standard with larger apps is very upsetting.
tensor 1y ago
Yeah I turned off all uber app notifications. It's pretty annoying as now I don't know when the food has come or when the driver is here, but the amount of ads I will tolerate is exactly zero.
joshstrange 1y ago
This 100%. Hell, give me a way to write code to filter notifications and I'll do it myself. I get so frustrated by apps that I need notifications on for but I don't want marketing BS, unfortunately there is no middle ground. On top of filtering Apple should force app developers to segment their push notifications and allow users to block different types. This would be completely in line with Apple's _stated_ priorities and a great thing to advertise (I can imagine the commercials for it already).
- krackers 1y ago
  I think you can do this on Android (or at least you used to be able to with Tasker when rooted, since it has [used to have] the ability to read notifications and dismiss notifications)
WorldMaker 1y ago
Some of the Uber competitors use Live Activities for when the delivery driver is on the way/outside, so you can bin their other notifications into a Notification Summary. I really appreciate Notification Summaries and the distinction of Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications as "can break out of summaries". Unfortunately each app has to opt in to using these other two things for their non-promotional stuff, and also can lie and mark their promotional stuff as "Time Sensitive" (I'm looking at you LinkedIn, which for me is now banned from all notifications forever, you misused them too much and I don't need you).

dabbz 1y ago

yea... I want to disable notifications but I don't want to miss my Apple Card payment notifications. Now my thought is to cancel my Apple Card so I can disable notifications and not miss anything. Notification ads are the modern day popup.

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eliaspro 1y ago

On Android, notifications can use different channels/categories. What is immediately worth a one-star review of an App for me (including the corresponding comment with the reasons), when it uses it "Important" channel to send me some ad or other stupid notification like "Please rate me".

rconti 1y ago
One thing I've noticed on iOS is that often app updates seem to reset my preferences. Not every update, of course, but I notice notifications months/years after I am 100% positive I disabled that category previously.
WorldMaker 1y ago
iOS has different channels in Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications. Live Activities are hard to miss because have very different style of UI (meant for active ongoing things like "current sporting event" and "pizza delivery tracker"), but most users don't notice "Time Sensitive" to take advantage of them until they turn on Notification Summaries. (Notification Summaries collect most notifications into a once-every-so-often, as you choose to schedule it, "newspaper", but Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" still show up immediately.) Abusing "Time Sensitive" is also a "time to give a bad review" case for me, too.

AdamN 1y ago

I don't want the filter. An app sends me a notification like that, all notifications are banned.

kimos 1y ago
The point is for apps where notifications at part of the core functionality. Uber, but also the app for your car or home alarm or baby monitor or whatever.
- AdamN 1y ago
  Uber?? I think I've turned off notifications for that. Baby monitor I'd prefer radio - is an iPhone really reliable enough??? Car/home alarms I guess make sense but it always seems odd to me that people have this stuff and then cheap locks, cheap doors, and all sorts of security gaps which should be fixed before that final 1% of security one might get from a home alarm app.