[…] if I look at Facebook Messenger’s settings screen for app specific notifications, it shows me this[.] There’s a red exclamation mark indicating something is wrong with my Notification Settings. The copy below it implies that Facebook Messenger isn’t allowed to use iOS’ notification system.
But the iOS notifications setting screen, shown above, show that Facebook Messenger does have access to the iOS notifications system - I just don’t have it set up the way Facebook wants me to. I initially thought I had done something wrong with how I had it configured. It’s worth mentioning: in the list of devious things Facebook does to try and get you to use their apps more, this is pretty low on the list in terms of evil rating. But it demonstrates to me how “confusing the user to get them to do what we want” is very much on the table at Facebook when it comes to how they design their apps.