Is Apple Violating Its Own Rules with Self-Promotional Push Notifications?

Some Apple users are accusing the company of violating its own App Store guidelines after a series of promotional push notifications.

Over the past few weeks, Apple has used several of its first-party applications to send out a slew of push notifications. Perhaps more importantly, those notifications were used to promote or advertise the company’s new services or products.

Apple’s Promotional Notifications

For example, Apple sent out a push notification on Tuesday informing Apple Music users that the streaming platform was now supported on Amazon Echo.

And last week, users took to Twitter to complain about receiving a push notification from the TV app promoting a CarPool Karaoke episode with Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber.