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Ugh, I’ve been wanting this forever. I DON’T want Uber Eats to tell me I should order pizza tonight. I do want to know when the delivery driver is outside.

by KMnO4 1y ago

jallmann 1y ago
Uber is blatantly abusing push notifications for marketing, it is so bad ... for smaller apps this would be an App Store ToS violation and grounds for removal. The double standard with larger apps is very upsetting.
tensor 1y ago
Yeah I turned off all uber app notifications. It's pretty annoying as now I don't know when the food has come or when the driver is here, but the amount of ads I will tolerate is exactly zero.
joshstrange 1y ago
This 100%. Hell, give me a way to write code to filter notifications and I'll do it myself. I get so frustrated by apps that I need notifications on for but I don't want marketing BS, unfortunately there is no middle ground. On top of filtering Apple should force app developers to segment their push notifications and allow users to block different types. This would be completely in line with Apple's _stated_ priorities and a great thing to advertise (I can imagine the commercials for it already).
- krackers 1y ago
  I think you can do this on Android (or at least you used to be able to with Tasker when rooted, since it has [used to have] the ability to read notifications and dismiss notifications)
WorldMaker 1y ago
Some of the Uber competitors use Live Activities for when the delivery driver is on the way/outside, so you can bin their other notifications into a Notification Summary. I really appreciate Notification Summaries and the distinction of Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications as "can break out of summaries". Unfortunately each app has to opt in to using these other two things for their non-promotional stuff, and also can lie and mark their promotional stuff as "Time Sensitive" (I'm looking at you LinkedIn, which for me is now banned from all notifications forever, you misused them too much and I don't need you).

Ugh, I’ve been wanting this forever. I DON’T want Uber Eats to tell me I should order pizza tonight. I do want to know when the delivery driver is outside.

by KMnO4 1y ago

Ugh, I’ve been wanting this forever. I DON’T want Uber Eats to tell me I should order pizza tonight. I do want to know when the delivery driver is outside.

jallmann 1y ago

Uber is blatantly abusing push notifications for marketing, it is so bad ... for smaller apps this would be an App Store ToS violation and grounds for removal. The double standard with larger apps is very upsetting.

tensor 1y ago

Yeah I turned off all uber app notifications. It's pretty annoying as now I don't know when the food has come or when the driver is here, but the amount of ads I will tolerate is exactly zero.

joshstrange 1y ago

This 100%. Hell, give me a way to write code to filter notifications and I'll do it myself. I get so frustrated by apps that I need notifications on for but I don't want marketing BS, unfortunately there is no middle ground. On top of filtering Apple should force app developers to segment their push notifications and allow users to block different types. This would be completely in line with Apple's _stated_ priorities and a great thing to advertise (I can imagine the commercials for it already).

krackers 1y ago
I think you can do this on Android (or at least you used to be able to with Tasker when rooted, since it has [used to have] the ability to read notifications and dismiss notifications)

WorldMaker 1y ago

Some of the Uber competitors use Live Activities for when the delivery driver is on the way/outside, so you can bin their other notifications into a Notification Summary. I really appreciate Notification Summaries and the distinction of Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications as "can break out of summaries". Unfortunately each app has to opt in to using these other two things for their non-promotional stuff, and also can lie and mark their promotional stuff as "Time Sensitive" (I'm looking at you LinkedIn, which for me is now banned from all notifications forever, you misused them too much and I don't need you).