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iPhone users are flooding social media with complaints — Apple’s latest iOS move is adding persistent ‘ads’ that can’t be dismissed to users’ devices (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 month ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Infuriatingly for iOS users, the only way to disable these promos is to either let them expire — which in many cases could take weeks or even months, leaving a persistent notification badge on the Settings app in the meantime — or pay for the service being offered.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

You're only slightly annoyed by an ad that requires you to subscribe to a service with a free trial, then cancel the trial, to remove?

And I thought any ad on a $2000 product was too much, even it it was as simple as closing with an X