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by pier25 2105 days ago
> I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them.

Surely Apple could implement a setting to disable all requests for push notifications?

> In short, my UX on iOS is better without them even being possible, so why would I prefer they be allowed?

Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native.

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> Because not everyone agrees with you and web apps have many advantages over native.

But I don't care about those advantages (to the extent that they exist for users they're secondary effects of webapps being very cheap to make as cross-platform apps, so more likely to be made in the first place if cross-platform is a requirement) and like being able to choose a platform where it's hard to deploy a webapp instead of a native app, forcing the choice of "native app" or "no app at all" on the part of the developer, because I think it leads to fewer total apps but way more native apps than there'd otherwise be.

So why would I prefer PWAs become more capable on the platform? I see why PWA developers and maybe some users would.

> Surely Apple could implement a setting to disable all requests for push notifications?

That’s an option in macOS. Ultimately it doesn’t make the UX any better though, as web developers still present JS-based dialogs asking for notification permissions