Apple Wallet in iOS 26 adds a toggle to disable controversial feature

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’s goal with Wallet is clearly to eventually replace your physical wallet—which sounds great.

But it also makes the thought of advertising via Wallet push notifications all the more controversial.

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.

For such a critical utility in many of our lives, turning off all Wallet notifications didn’t seem a good idea.

But in iOS 26, Apple has the fix.

In the notifications menu inside Wallet, there’s a new toggle: Offers & Promotions.

It’s on by default, but you can disable it to prevent any future unwanted advertising from the app.

Should such a toggle even be necessary in the first place? Probably not, or at least not with its current behavior of being on by default.

But after you update to iOS 26, you can ensure no future promotional notifications get sent from your digital wallet app.

Do you plan to disable Wallet notifications for ‘Offers & Promotions’ in iOS 26? Let us know in the comments.

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