That does make it better, but it’s getting so tiring, trying to find those settings for all the different apps, and figuring out whether you can adjust them without losing something you really want.

And what’s worse is that the companies always seem to find a way to reset it to what they want quite frequently. One of their tricks is to reorganize permissions frequently so the ones that allow their spam to get through are always new

Is this a new thing in iOS? In Android we've had the ability to choose which kinds of notifications an app can send us for years now.

It doesn't work very well though. The list of notification types is per-app, many apps just have one catch-all category. And many others don't separate ads from others, presumably to force you into seeing the ads. It's also a huge PITA to manage notification types for 100+ apps.

You can, for now.

> turn off notifications about promotions and offers in the wallet app.

Is it me, or is Apple is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook here? It's ironic how every company seems to be converging now.

Eventually, they will all become Oracle.