I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by rapind on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:42PM (#31632589)

Apple kept a notification badge on my settings icon for Apple Pay until I finally went in and opted out of it. Under the guise of “Finish setting up your iPhone”.

It’s not a big deal I guess, but annoying and obviously promotional. Now I partially associate Apple with intentionally annoying.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by deergomoo on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:19PM (#31633511)

Apple’s big push into services has been slowly but surely chipping away at the generally pleasant experience of using their platforms. The price of entry was always high, but once you were through the door you were never really upsold.

Not so anymore. Numerous nags in settings to buy AppleCare or start a trial of some service or other. The App Store is particularly egregious: as well as search ads there are now occasional modal prompts to enable marketing notifications with my most hated dark pattern of all—only offering “yes” or “not now” as options.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by gopher_space on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:52PM (#31634277)

The entire point of Apple, in my mind, has been their focus on user experience. It's weird seeing them lose their way every now and then. I wonder what's going on internally because no sane designer would sign off on some of these ideas.

The App Store on my iphone is only useful for installing apps I've searched for externally. Browsing categories is buried as a search suggestion?

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by gnicholas on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:21PM (#31632963)

There's also no way (that I've found) to turn off notifications if you have an Apple Card. It automatically sends you a notification the next day telling you how much you 'saved' via their cash back feature. This actually discourages me from using their card because I hate getting the notifications.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by mikestew on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:59PM (#31633330)

You can turn off those notifications, just probably not in the manner you would expect:

https://www.imore.com/how-to-enable-or-disable-apple-card-no...

Which reminds me, I need to get with Apple Card support to find a workaround for the bug where I get notifications for my spouse’s purchases (and vice versa) despite having toggled the switch enough times to have worn a dull spot on the screen. Thankfully we are a couple who don’t really care about the purchases, per se, it is just fucking annoying.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by gnicholas on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:21PM (#31633527)

Ah very cool, thanks! But it looks like this turns off notifications for 'Transactions'. Does that disable the next-day notification to tell you that you saved 57¢ yesterday?

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by mikestew on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:40PM (#31636229)

No, that is in the Apple Cash card settings, similar to where it is for Apple Card. Wallet/Apple Cash/three dots/Notifications.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by gnicholas on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:50PM (#31636880)

Oh wow...amazing. Never would have thought to look in the Apple Cash card settings, since that's merely the place the Apple Card reward cash are deposited.

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