"Apple's Wallet app has a lot of new features coming in iOS 26, including one that's easy to miss: a toggle that lets you disable an annoying and controversial type of push notifications. Apple Wallet is a critical app for a lot of iPhone users. It's home to Apple Pay cards, and many of us use it for boarding passes, concert or theater tickets, ID cards, transit, and more."
"Apple learned this earlier this summer, when it sent an unwanted Wallet notification to a large number of iPhone users. The subject? A ticket offer for F1 The Movie. Many took to social media to complain about being advertised to via a Wallet notification. The whole backlash even entered meme territory, like with this printout for a physical wallet. At the time, iOS offered no way to disable such notifications without turning off Wallet notifications altogether."
Apple Wallet stores payment cards, boarding passes, event tickets, ID cards, transit passes and other items, making it central to many iPhone users' daily routines. iOS 26 adds a new Notifications menu option with an Offers & Promotions toggle that blocks promotional push notifications from Wallet. The toggle is enabled by default but can be turned off to prevent future advertising messages while leaving other Wallet alerts active. Earlier this summer Apple sent an unsolicited Wallet notification promoting F1 The Movie, generating widespread backlash. Prior iOS versions lacked a way to disable only promotional Wallet notifications without silencing all Wallet alerts.
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