Turn off Apple Pay Messages (made the mistake of upgrading)

I recently upgraded my iPhone (big mistake)- now I'm getting pestered constantly to setup Apple Pay. Similarly I've had MANY issues with Apple nagging me to set up iCloud (I refuse to use iCloud). The more Apple pesters and the more Apple makes it impossible to turn off these annoying messages the LESS LIKELY I'll ever use Apple Pay or iCloud. I'm at a point of considering ditching Apple entirely simply because there seems to be no way whatsoever to turn off these annoying (and self-serving) messages.

I'm not updating my iPad (because I don't want annoying messages appearing on that device either).

I'm just sick of this nonsense.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 11:12 AM

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 5:30 PM

@deggie - okay that got me to the screen where I COULD turn this off. Thanks.

Now, if I could only remove EVERY annoying iCloud message (I posted about this before - doesn't seem possible). I don't use iCloud and because Apple is so hyper irritating about me using iCloud - I will NEVER use that feature. In fact, it's highly likely I'll throw this phone in the trash and get a Samsung. Annoying messages will NEVER win me over. If Apple had been cool about iCloud (ability to turn irritating iCloud messages off) then there would have been a far better chance I'd give iCloud a try - but not now. There's too much negativity associated with the lack of control. Apple doesn't really get that SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT iCloud.

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