I know, not the freshest article, but the comments from the app developers are worth reading it.

And anyway, the Settings stuff *has* to be per application basis. Just not manageable for 180+ apps (and no search function for settings).

I understand apples initial thoughts, but they just didn’t assume that there would be THAT MANY apps. (As the did not with push notifications…)

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