Comment by nurumaik
20 hours ago
Apple should add "promotional notifications" section to iOS, then ban everyone who don't put their marketing bs into that category
20 hours ago
Apple should add "promotional notifications" section to iOS, then ban everyone who don't put their marketing bs into that category
Yes! iOS 27 needs to categorize notifications using AI. Apps aren't supposed to advertise to you, but some don't allow for that distinction. I want notifications on for when my sandwich is arriving, but I don't want push notifications for a promotion. Some apps are good about this, others don't allow that granularity. I hate the all or nothing.
On the flipside, I have an app that sends notifications. We don't abuse it or use it for promotions, and APNS and Google's version works perfectly fine for us.
There was actually an app store rule for the first couple of years after notifications became available, basically saying don't use it for promotions. A few apps actually got pulled for sending spammy notifications.
But then everyone started doing it and Apple stopped enforcing the rule. It may still be in there somewhere as a "guideline."
Apple isn't your friend though.
edit: downvote all you want. Fact remains that there is no way currently to block advertisement notifications and no disincentives for those who use them.
Send everything to the iOS notification summary which you then don’t look at. Uber and others can send time sensitive notifications and those don’t go in the summary. It’s basically a junk notification folder.
Works well.