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

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

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

!$#!#@

just when i'm just about ready to pull the trigger and switch to iOS you tell me this..

save us pinephone

Apple no longer prohibits ads in notifications as of March last year

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.

Essentially, Apple blocked it until they needed it to promote their services in more channels.

Apple is adding something like what you want in iOS 15. https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification...

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.

Many apps send marketing notifications anyway. And there seems to be no way to report it.

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?

Yes.

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

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

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