Wesley_Hilliard

Chaos215bar4 said:

Tell me more about how it "doesn't hurt me" when a company uses its market dominance to bait and switch me into buying a mobile OS that abuses flagship features as an advertising platform.

I literally uninstall apps for this nonsense, or at least completely block them from sending notifications. Zero exceptions.

"You clearly don't have to like it. That's fine, of course, to each their own. But to say that it's some kind of epic betrayal, from an App that literally stores tickets"

How hard is it to understand the difference between something the user paid to see in Wallet and something that was places there against their wishes and without permission? Apple already charges plenty for its products and subscriptions. It does not need to be doing self-promotion on a device and OS people pay for, let along stoop to the level of a third party cross-promotion with Fandango.

And frankly, you should be happy for the outcry, because it means you probably won't have to deal with much more of this nonsense. Do you want ads in Notification Center?!

Combined that for you. Also, I'm fairly certain users can edit posts using the cog in the top right of a post. It might not appear in certain page sizes, so adjust if you need to.

Did the ad cause you physical pain? Did it take up a significant amount your time? Did it blare out audio or force a video to play? Did it steal your money, harm a loved one, or burn down your house? Because it feels like that's what people are acting like.

A dismissible notification with useful information that may apply to a large swath of iPhone users, that wasn't even sent to every user, was sent out. It may have even been a smaller test before rolling out wider promotion notifications in iOS 26, which is why there is a toggle in iOS 26 to turn it off.

People seem to be viewing this as a purely "Apple is begging for money and attention" position. While the function of this ad could mean more attention and ticket sales for a movie Apple made, it also works to inform users of the option in the first place. I would have hated to go to the theater and pay for tickets only to realize I could have saved $10 by using Apple Pay on Fandango. I literally didn't know this was an option until the ad, so it worked.

I just don't understand the outrage. It's just weird. Do you really care that much? It takes zero time to just swipe it away if you don't need it and it helps people that do. And, most importantly, Apple is giving users the ability to turn it off.

melliott said:

Or those apple users could just read the email that was sent on  June 18th, 2025 from the applepay@insideapple.apple.com to users that had opted into marketing email messages.  They didn't need to shove this without prior approval abusing the App Notification subsystem.

While you might manage your email and read everything in your inbox, the vast majority of people don't. Most people have 42k unread emails in their inbox and only open the app to get a 2FA code, and even then, they don't have to since Apple surfaces that automatically now.

Abusing? Shoving? It's a notification from an app that handles purchase and storage of movie tickets. This is the furthest thing from abuse. And it seems to be a limited test since it didn't go out to every iPhone user. I didn't get the notification either.

People have different tolerances. It's extreme to suggest this release cycle is worse or better than any other based on the bugginess of the initial beta. Beta 2 is way more stable than I expected it to be, so there's that. I can deal with glitches, animations freezing, crashing apps, and Springboard crashes, but many can't.

there have been much worse beta 1 releases. A beta without data loss is a good beta.

williamlondon said:

OMG they changed an icon’s coloring, then changed it back. I wondered why the planet had temporarily tilted on its axis, but now all seems fine I guess, unless of course another change is coming, then oh dear god hang on to the new trolls these changes will enrage.

Beta 3: Finder is orange

tht said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

It's something like 16. Which is a wild number. And like Stage Manager, it just kicks out the oldest window when the threshold is crossed.

I opened 14 for a screenshot and it was too much to manage. Stages allow you to have more because the limit is per stage.

Thanks!

Are you able to test 4, 6, 8 and 16 GB RAM iPads?

And, it is 16 windows per display? 16 on external display and 16 on the iPad display?

Holding out for the M5 iPad Pro, which hopefully will have 32 GB RAM options. 

I'm not home so I can't answer the display question, but it seems to be per stage, per desktop like Stage Manager. I may be wrong, but this means 32 apps across the iPad and display for a 16GB RAM model.

It's something like 16. Which is a wild number. And like Stage Manager, it just kicks out the oldest window when the threshold is crossed.

I opened 14 for a screenshot and it was too much to manage. Stages allow you to have more because the limit is per stage.