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by hombre_fatal 1565 days ago
Same with phone notifications.

You enable notifications from Uber/UberEats/whatever because it's useful to get notifications like "the driver is on the way", "the driver is here". But then they also send you spam notifications.

And at least on iPhone, I don't know of a fast way to toggle notifications for a given app. Endless-scrolling the list of all apps in the notifications config menu is annoying enough to where I never bother.

My carrier (Telcel MX) does this too. They send important messages about my subscription on the same channel they spam me with offers. They even send me warnings about phishing attacks from fake Telcel ads. Well, maybe people wouldn't be so susceptible to it if you didn't train them to get used to ad spam.

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Next time you get a notification from a sender you want to silence, swipe left on the notification, then tap “manage notifications”. That should take you straight to the notification settings for the specific app.
That still doesn't address the problem - on iOS, notifications are "all or nothing" for any given app.
Yes, unfortunately there is only so much you can do.
> on iPhone, I don't know of a fast way to toggle notifications for a given app.

In the notification screen, drag the notification left and hit "Options". It'll give you options to mute, turn off, or fine-tune the settings.

You can turn those off for UberEats FYI. In the privacy settings.