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iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification
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I use both Android and iOS. Both are really good at this point. Now, both with Ads. Too soon?
Venmo and Paypal constantly pushing their credit cards/lines down your throat comes to mind. Yes, Apple promotes Apple Card but it’s nowhere near as obnoxious as the other two companies mentioned.
Unfortunately this is exactly the thing that will NOT HAPPEN. People will continue to buy iPhone and Apple will continue to be able to get away with this forever.
As if Apple really had any standards to… oh they did? But not now? Oh that’s double gross and unacceptable.
Or ban all first party apps except settings app. They all violate THEIR OWN guidelines (this is for dramatic effect) one way or the other for unfair advantages and gross monopolistic behaviours.
The worst enemy of someone is always oneself. Apple truly is Apple’s own worst enemy that can’t be beaten.
So time for more ads I guess. How about weekly promotion of Apple Card until you sign up for one?
Initially I thought it was for Apple Card holders then saw it on my work iPhone.
Do we think it would have been better if there was just an offer in Wallet app but no notification? I agree with some others this could have been an emailed offer.
Also noticed there’s a $5 T-Mobile Tuesday ticket deal.
Do we think it would have been better if there was just an offer in Wallet app but no notification? I agree with some others this could have been an emailed offer.
Also noticed there’s a $5 T-Mobile Tuesday ticket deal.
I think it's just a reality of business. They are in the entertainment business now. I didn't get the ad, but could see it being an honest, hey, you own one of our devices, so we will give you $10 on something others will pay full price for. I know that isn't the general consensus, but I tend to assume positive intent.
Look, I’m not saying I love ads but anyone who’s worked in marketing knows you have to push your product like crazy with all the notifications people get throughout the day. People see an ad, like the product but are too busy/get distracted to act on the ad so it makes sense to serve another one.
By the way, there are two settings to turn off these notifications in Wallet:
That's a ridiculous justification.
Advertising will ALWAYS have "some people who may want X product".
That is not a rationale to bombard people with it.
I get zero notifications from Apps that I don't want. I want all of my notifications to be important to be noticed. If an app sends me notifications I don't want, I disable notifications or delete the app. Its just odd that Apple is using my Wallet app to send me ads. No big deal, I'll provide Apple feedback that I was disappointed - for whatever that will do, and disable Wallet notifications.
where is this setting? I don't see it in settings --> Wallet & Apple Pay.
If this was a once off because some marketting exec got too excited that their childhood dreams of winning an oscar is getting closer, i'd say "just dismiss the notification and get on with your life"
The fact that they've introduced a toggle for it; specifically with wording "apple or its partners" tells me that they plan to do a lot more of this in the future.
And when they say partners, what they really mean is "anyone willing to pay us to advertise their stuff"
I'm so glad that people are calling out for the absolute penny pinching greed that Apple has been infested with cause of Tim Apple. Wait until you find out that the blatant rules violations for Apple Music, Apple TV and Apple One which infests ads in the settings app one after the other for months, not to mention Apple TV has bloody ads before we watch what we actually want to watch for other Apple TV *****, oh the mini trailer that plays before a show isn't an "ad" as the apple defence force call for just skip it bro.
Apple is rotten, I'm skipping a bite for years now with no new device.
This settings panel is directly in the Wallet app. Tap the ••• in the top right corner and then Settings.
I’m on iOS 26 beta, so the interface might be a bit different on iOS 18.
Some people just complain about what others find newsworthy. They should write an article about that.
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It shouldn't be there to be dismissed in the first place... just sayin.
Look.. here's the thing that folks like you just aren't seeing. Blow this off as no big deal, and they gradually add another ad. And another. And another. Next thing you know, you'll spend 5 minutes of every hour dismissing unwanted notifications. "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile." There's a reason why Apple's very own developer guidelines explicitly FORBID doing what Apple themselves just did. It's a double standard and they need to be held accountable for it.
People can also not give a damn while others give too much of a damn. That’s a choice we all have and i could not care less about apple letting me know i could save $10 🤷♂️
It would be one thing if apple was ripping you out of your apps and showing full screen banners of brad Pitt shirtless in front of a sports car telling me to buy tickets. A small notification? I didn’t even notice it. It’s so unobtrusive that I can’t even get mad about it
Yeah it’s all good and dandy but who holds the ruler accountable? Apple certainly won’t hold their own illegal actions accountable, no matter how much wrong the illegal actions are and how many people are negatively impacted by the actions. Apple is their own worst enemy and Apple is very lenient on controlling that for some years now.
Had Apple sell their iPhone 30% lower their current asking price, I think people might be more willing to swallow the ad. After all, google search is free of charge to use but google still is one of the most powerful companies in the world. But nope. Apple raises the product price by 30% AND shove people with ads. It’s like paying $14.99/mo for YouTube premium in order to watch even more ads.
Feel free to circle the part where I said it was, esteemed fellow forum participant.
App Review Guidelines 4.5.4 - Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages.