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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by losvedir on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:05PM (#48300673)
Tell me use iOS without telling me you do. Android has separate notification channel toggles, so I've turned off the marketing ones. I was shocked and aghast when I spent a year trying to use an iPhone that it didn't do this. Part of the reason I went back to my trusty Pixels.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by TingPing on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:09PM (#48300724)
While iOS doesn’t do this at the OS level I’ve never seen an app that didn’t have these options. I assumed it’s required by Apple.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by vhcr on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:46PM (#48301798)
They technically allow you to, but make it really annoying to. Uber for example:

Account > Settings > Accessibility > Communication Settings

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by crote on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:46PM (#48301794)
Most apps are cross-platform. If you're already required to do it on Android, going out of your way to avoid it on iOS doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by Arainach on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:49PM (#48302815)
It absolutely makes sense (in a capitalist sense). Then you get more money/engagement/whatever on all of the other platforms.

It's the same reason Microsoft built functionality to let users in Europe have links open in their default browser instead of Edge but blocked that feature for the rest of the world.

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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by greyface- on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:12PM (#48301478)
Lots of iOS apps have the option, but ignore it and send you push ads anyway. Apple may require it to be present during app review, but they don't seem to enforce that it's used correctly.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by bigiain on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:48PM (#48301817)
Does Google actively police app's use of channels? Is there any mechanism to stop apps abusing "time critical" channels and sending unwanted marketing?
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by MiddleEndian on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:43AM (#48307130)
I use Android. Lyft put marketing notifications in the default notification channel on my device. If the Play Store were useful, they'd have banned Lyft until they fixed it. (haven't gotten one in a bit so maybe they did (or maybe I set something so that the app could only message me while it's active))
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