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lordleft parent
I just saw this today and was shocked; I have disabled notifications for many apps because they sent an errant ad in-between more necessary messages.

I personally would love it if Apple would allow for some kind of filtering of 'offers' vs substantive notifications across iOS, but this gives me less hope of that ever happening.

KMnO4
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.

joshstrange
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
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
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).

tensor
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.
jallmann
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.
eliaspro
On Android, notifications can use different channels/categories.

What is immediately worth a one-star review of an App for me (including the corresponding comment with the reasons), when it uses it "Important" channel to send me some ad or other stupid notification like "Please rate me".

rconti
One thing I've noticed on iOS is that often app updates seem to reset my preferences. Not every update, of course, but I notice notifications months/years after I am 100% positive I disabled that category previously.
WorldMaker
iOS has different channels in Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications. Live Activities are hard to miss because have very different style of UI (meant for active ongoing things like "current sporting event" and "pizza delivery tracker"), but most users don't notice "Time Sensitive" to take advantage of them until they turn on Notification Summaries. (Notification Summaries collect most notifications into a once-every-so-often, as you choose to schedule it, "newspaper", but Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" still show up immediately.)

Abusing "Time Sensitive" is also a "time to give a bad review" case for me, too.

dabbz
yea... I want to disable notifications but I don't want to miss my Apple Card payment notifications. Now my thought is to cancel my Apple Card so I can disable notifications and not miss anything. Notification ads are the modern day popup.
AdamN
I don't want the filter. An app sends me a notification like that, all notifications are banned.
kimos
The point is for apps where notifications at part of the core functionality. Uber, but also the app for your car or home alarm or baby monitor or whatever.

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