iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification

[sbuntin]

More and more, Apple is becoming a Marketing First company. By this I mean the marketing department has way too much clout within the company. We already saw this with the botched AI campaign where they advertised "buy the iphone 16 pro so you can get AI". this was done even though the AI features didn't exist yet.

Now the marketing department is pulling crap like this they want to advertise in spaces they should not be. We all know Apple is greedy as Fxxx, but these sort of moves will really piss people off. I hope every one votes with thier dollars on future purchases. It will be the only way to get the message across to Apple.

I tried. I did.

Was it a bad idea to stomp down the row of manager cubicles at Apple way back in the day, yelling "Marketing sucks" after they blocked a knowledge base article because publishing a fix for an issue that involved Terminal was too scary? Probably. But I did it anyway.

 

[star-affinity]

Reminded me of how annoying it is to get that pop-up while using and app that asks you to rate it in the App Store. This is something that happened before but since iOS 18 I've seen it in many more apps, even Apple's own ones. Today it happened while I was using the Weather app.

Leave me alone and let me use the app in peace! I'll go and rate it on the App Store if I feel like it.

Edit:
Okay, I just looked it up and it can be disabled in the App Store settings. Good!

 

[GtrDude]

Ads in the App Store, Ads in A News, Ads in maps, plus other apps too.
Now they’re simply going straight for it and of course they know that most people don’t have the Wallet notifications turned off.
Such a cheesy company it’s unreal.
And their market cap today was right at 3 trillion dollars…but they want more.
Maximum greed.

 

[GtrDude]

Reminded me of how annoying it is to get that pop-up while using and app that asks you to rate it in the App Store. This is something that happened before but since iOS 18 I've seen it in many more apps, even Apple's own ones. Today it happened while I was using the Weather app.

Leave me alone and let me use the app in peace! I'll go and rate it on the App Store if I feel like it.

Edit:
Okay, I just looked it up and it can be disabled in the App Store settings. Good!

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I have this turned off but get it all the time anyway.
It’s an Apple thing to make the user feel good using their devices.

 

[groove-agent]

Just look at the App Store right now: IAP games not only top the "charts" but also get heavily promoted non-stop by Apple on their first page, as if they even needed any extra promotion.

Zero chance of smaller, non-IAP apps to be shown, and zero chance of customers even being able to search for non-IAP apps. That's the kind of cheap, revenue-desperate attitude that did not exist under Jobs.

No doubt there will be an anti-competitive lawsuit coming. There is one for everything else Apple does.

 

[Graphate]

I don’t intend to interrupt this regularly scheduled fight for long. But this crossed my mind twice today…

Some people are especially upset about receiving a push notification ad through the Wallet app because it is a very important app for personal finances, so simply turning off notifications for the entire app is not a feasible solution.

Join me in the minority: turn off almost all notifications—

(use scheduled notifications turned on for the few remainders that might be nice to aggregate: news, health, notes, etc)

—except for things that matter in the moment: maps, weather, calendar, reminders, and phone.

Legitimately interested in this, how many other people just turned off (all or most) notifications?

Back to your fight.

 

[JapanApple]

Are people even more angry than when Bono released the album without permission and everybody got the download? I hardly believe people are more angry now than then.

 

[aParkerMusic]

Turn off notifications for the Wallet app. That’s like suing Apple because you got a notification for an incoming email, because you didn’t turn notifications off.

This is all getting absurd and petty.

NEXT!

 

[Ghost31]

i wish i could be as upset about this as other people. I know its objectively probably not a good thing, i just can’t bring myself to care when I didn’t even notice it among my billions of notifications anyway. And with the state of the world right now, if a simple notification about a new movie and saving 10 bucks popping up was my biggest worry, man. I’d be living the life

 

[Starfia]

Not that hard to dismiss a notification...just sayin.

Even easier not to send one.

 

[Starfia]

I get Logic Pro X showing a one-time splash screen about Logic Pro for iPad – that kind of thing. But the complaints here seem completely reasonable, as well as the reference to the App Store guideline.

Hopefully the upcoming setting is the end of the story.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I get Logic Pro X showing a one-time splash screen about Logic Pro for iPad – that kind of thing. But the complaints here seem completely reasonable, as well as the reference to the App Store guideline.

Hopefully the upcoming setting is the end of the story.

How about no setting needed and just don’t do this?

These are OUR devices.

We are not here as a captive audience that is “theirs” to market into for their own gain.

It’s complete BS.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Turn off notifications for the Wallet app. That’s like suing Apple because you got a notification for an incoming email, because you didn’t turn notifications off.

This is all getting absurd and petty.

NEXT!

I have notifications turned off in the wallet app and still got it.

Next, indeed...

 

[eifelbube]

“ … One silver lining is that the iOS 26 beta adds an "Offers & Promotions" toggle to the Wallet app, allowing users to opt in or out of receiving special offers and discounts available from Apple and its unspecified partners. …. “

Thank you, Apple. And please set the default to “opt out” …

 

[coolfactor]

This company has no standards anymore.

This is totally gross and unacceptable and not what we want out of Apple products.

I suspect that company size might be an issue. Decisions are being made in departments that don't align with company policies or guidelines.

"Hey! We can push out a notification via the Wallet app, since they can use that to pay, so it's relevant!"

"Great idea!"

... meanwhile, upper management has no idea this is happening.

 

[Kingjamess93]

I was definitely annoyed by this.

 

[mansplains]

Apple is the one company that doesn't need to do this. We pay more for an elevated experience: Our Macs don't come with trial software or branding stickers, our iPhones don't come pre-loaded with carrier marketing apps, the email address we hand over to Apple isn't immediately sold to the highest bidder.

no stickers to my chagrin, but I know you mean the stupid intel inside etc on PCs

 

[pakupakuman]

Bono has entered the chat.

 

[Starfia]

How about no setting needed and just don’t do this?

We are not here as a captive audience that is “theirs” to market into for their own gain.

I mean, it's an offer associated with Apple Pay that some people may indeed want? A clear choice (presumably removing you from any theoretical group of people that could be considered a captive audience) has always struck me as sufficient.

 

[DMG35]

does junk mail bother you? That’s what this is and Apple shouldn’t be doing it via its apps

No it doesn’t bother me. I just delete it and move on.

 

[GrassShark]

i wish i could be as upset about this as other people. I know its objectively probably not a good thing, i just can’t bring myself to care when I didn’t even notice it among my billions of notifications anyway. And with the state of the world right now, if a simple notification about a new movie and saving 10 bucks popping up was my biggest worry, man. I’d be living the life

People can be concerned about more than one thing at a time. Just because something bothers you doesn't mean it is de facto the biggest problem in your life.

 

[CMoore515]

Legitimately interested in this, how many other people just turned off (all or most) notifications?

Back to your fight.

I do. Only ones I have for instant delivery are Messages, Phone, Fantastical, Apple Sports, CARROT. Everything else is either off or gets thrown into a notification summary a couple times a day.

 

[rlewisphilly]

Is people complaining about something the bar for an article? Some people complain about everything.

I want to complain that iPhones aren’t free and automatically delivered to my address on launch day. Anyone want to join in my complaint?

Out of all the crap you can complain about...an extra notification is not (should not) be near the top of the list. Do I want "ads" in my wallet notifications? no..but.. is this really different than getting an "apple wallet deal" from another company that we like? not really. It's a discount: take it or leave it. and move on,

 

[FatLouie]

Yep...I got the same damn Fandango ad. I just deleted both the Apple card and my VISA card, and the Wallet app.

Dear Apple ... if you give me the iPhone, then you can advertise to me without my permission. Other than that, you have no
permission to advertise to me via your apps.

 

[DownUnderDan]

Is people complaining about something the bar for an article? Some people complain about everything.

I want to complain that iPhones aren’t free and automatically delivered to my address on launch day. Anyone want to join in my complaint?

Translated. As a fanboy I can't think of a good counterpoint to this article, so I fully intend to shoot the messenger.