[ceejayoz]

Marketing push notifications used to be entirely banned. They're permitted now, but they're supposed to be behind a specific opt-in.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. 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. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.

It used to say:

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes or to send sensitive personal or confidential information.

I suspect Uber's in too-big-to-fail territory here.

[buffet_overflow]

Notification channels is legitimately top 3 features I missed going from Android to iOS as my daily driver. Rideshare apps (Lyft, Uber) are by far the worst offenders, with Amazon coming in a close third. I want notifications when I need to go downstairs and when I can expect service to be delivered, I do not need a notification for 10% off some aspect of the app I’ve never used and will now never use as a result.

It’s wild that I cannot opt out of these forced ads without fundamentally crippling the app itself.

[bbor]

I’m not sure about Uber proper, but Uber eats and DoorDash actually DO let you disable the advertising notifications :) I was so happy when I found that. In Uber eats it’s Account > Privacy > Notifications

[rchaud]

Going to their mobile website would give you 95% of the same experience and you wouldn't have to even think about disabling ad notifications

[neon_electro]

Praying something like this comes to iOS soon.

[neodymiumphish]

Or the use of "should not" instead of "must not" is giving them the leeway they're using.

[JCharante]

Is it fruitless to try reporting a delivery app to apple? I used to get literally 10 marketing push notifications per day from an app so I disabled notifications and now wait for them to call me to get my order (paying COD)