Getting Apple arcade spam for something called Lego Star Wars; how do I delete Apple Arcade and stop them spamming me

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Getting Apple arcade spam for something called Lego Star Wars; how do I delete Apple Arcade and stop them spamming me

Apple just spammed my Apple ID via email, and woke me up via a simultaneous spam notification on my iPad, with an advertisement for something very scammy called Lego Star Wars and Apple Arcade.

I didn't sign up for any such service. I don't want Apple spamming me with this kind of thing.

I'm marking the email as spam, and will do a hard shut-out of all notifications from App Store (which they harshly misused for the wake-up notification spam advertisement). This means any legit email notifications (are there ever any) from the App Store will also be missed. Spammers can't be choosers; they've burned that channel permanently.

But how do I tell Apple to not expand their spamming for other worthless marketoony scam things? How do I tell them DO NOT SPAM ME with any email or on-device notification marketoony scam things?

They don't appear to have an unsub function, nor is there any apparent option for email settings anywhere. While writing scripts to forward their spam back to their abuse desk when they try again will be easily done, it'd be better if they could be stopped before it comes to that.

Posted on Nov 18, 2021 8:45 PM

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Nov 19, 2021 3:34 PM in response to c_luc9

Thanks for the suggestion.

However, I have personalized ads turned off/disabled.

As well, my AppleID has all checkboxes for "Messages from Apple" (in profile) unselected. No "Announcements". No "Apps, Music, TV, and More". No "Apple News Newsletter".

Despite this, I was sent email spam for Lego Star Wars Apple Arcade.

Despite this, Apple woke me up by sending a notification about Lego Star Wars Apple Arcade via my iPad.

I'm seeking a way to prevent/stop this Apple spamming via email and intensely interruptive notifications.

Since Apple deliberately burned the notifications bridge with this spam, I've disabled all notifications from App Store, Apple Store, iTunes Store, Apple News, etc. I hope that line holds.

It would still be more ideal for Apple to be forced to honor settings and not send spam notifications in the first place, of course. Any ways to make that happen?

I'd like to totally nuke Apple Arcade from all my devices (if only based on the harsh observation that any product that is aggressively marketooned via spam this way, especially to victims who are very explicitly opted out already... has to be scammy junk of the worst kind).

Does anyone know a way to get Apple to honor the "Messages from Apple" settings? Does anyone know a way to get rid of Apple Arcade, completely?

Thanks again!