Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers

Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by bstar77 on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:23PM (#4774565)

The one that's been killing me lately are the notifications from the new He-Man game for iPhone. I have yet to figure out how to turn off push notifications for this app, it's not in the in-game settings or in the Settings app and I know I never enabled them in any dialogs. I just randomly get random messages about how I'm not doing a good enough job saving Eternia. If I can't figure this out soon the game is gone.

Isn't this the kind of abuse that the app store approval process should be addressing? If notifications are supported, then they should be required to be configurable in the Settings app, no exceptions.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by jefflinwood on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:26PM (#4774583)

They might be local notifications from the app itself, not remote push notifications.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by idunno246 on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:58PM (#4774746)

And there is no way to turn these off. The app just has to schedule them while its running.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by comex on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:33AM (#4776749)

If you care enough, I suggest filing a radar.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by bstar77 on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:40PM (#4774657)

but then wouldn't they only show when the app is running? I get these notifications all the time, even when the app is not suspended.

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Re:Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For A... by gte910h on Monday November 12, 2012 @03:44PM (#4774677)

No, they happen locally on your phone, at a later time.

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