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Re:Apple News has a notification spam problem by discordance on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:50AM (#19725689)
The problem is that this is the default behavior of Apple News and is poor design. It doesn't even align with Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines[0], which states "If you send multiple notifications for the same thing, you fill up Notification Center, and users may turn off notifications from your app."

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

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Re:Apple News has a notification spam problem by threeseed on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:51AM (#19725693)
But it isn't notifications for the same thing. They are different articles.
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Re:Apple News has a notification spam problem by JimDabell on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @02:31AM (#19726118)
> The problem is that this is the default behavior of Apple News

This is not the default behaviour. No application has permission to send you notifications unless you enable it.

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Re:Apple News has a notification spam problem by jimboj on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:44AM (#19727243)
That's not true for Apple's own apps. News can send notifications without you enabling them (like you have to for 3rd party apps). I've even submitted a bug report about this and it was closed as "working as intended".
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Re:Apple News has a notification spam problem by simonh on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:46AM (#19726421)
I believe this is true, the difference for News is you get asked if you want updates during phone setup and it's easy to forget you agreed. Since that method doesn't use the usual notifications UI it doesn't cognitively associate as the same thing, which is a little sneaky, but you do still have to give positive approval.
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