Unsubscribing from unwanted Apple Fitness+ emails without an unsubscribe link

Apple Fitness+ email does not contain an RFC 2369-complaint List-Unsubscribe header, which is the standard way to indicate how recipients can unsubscribe, either via an email address or URL. Typically: List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:unsubscribe@example.com>, <https//example/unsubscribe>

• No List-Unsubscribe or similar header is present in email metadata
• No visible unsubscribe link is shown in plain-text or HTML body of email
• The only unsubscribe-like messaging is a general explanation of why the email was sent:

"You are receiving this email because Apple Fitness+ is included for 3 months with your recent Apple Watch purchase."

I am sadden to see this.

For over a year, until today, I also did not get an email. And while in most cases (not just Apple, but most companies) tend to follow the unsubscribe requests (typically with a link attached to their email advertisement). But in this case Apple seems to be one of those companies that seems to have missed offering that option to users.

If you NEVER experienced this with other companies, then I am happy for you. But I would suspect there are many people that have experienced this and are annoyed when companies auto-subscribe, fail to unsubscribe, and/or reduce the ability to unsubscribe with a simple link attached to the end of solicitation emails.

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That is not built into this solicitation email. Perhaps Apple has that built into their email app. I have seen that feature in other email apps. It does seem useful especially if a user is not confident an email is legitimate and not spam/malicious. So far, I would say I have done fairly well in discerning solicitation emails in good faith and those for malicious purposes. And I would argue that this particular email could have the unsubscribe link attached to the bottom of the advertisement to ensure the user is requesting the company unsubscribe from their side, not just the user's side through the email app filter feature.

Maybe I received a similar email once or twice right after I purchased the Apple Watch (I'll estimate one or two weeks to be fair). Then never again until this occurrence.

I have no reason to believe this email should arrive again since I have not received a second Apple Watch from the time of my first ever purchase more than a year ago.

Stuck is a very interesting word to use with a company like Apple. They are very on top of their other services and products when it comes to features like Find My Device, email notifications when subscribed to Apple Support Community, app subscriptions, Family Sharing notifications, and so on. No accidental emails there. Nothing is stuck there. I will give kudos for those services. Great job!

However, an email brought up a long time after a purchase of a device that just so happens to advertise a paid service like Apple Fitness+ again seems convenient for marketing purposes.

If the solution for the customer is to stick their head in the sand and just put up with it like other companies, ignore it, filter such spam, from a company like Apple which emphasizes the best of the best products, designs, services, then it seems it is not upholding to their original goals that made it such a great company.

Or maybe I, the customer, am being unreasonable and Apple is allowed to spam a few marketing emails like other companies have. I hope I am wrong and it is indeed stuck/a bug/accidental.

I am sadden to see that you did not read my post on how I descirbed that I "have unchecked all emails in settings", thus the reason I am creating this post to begin with.

Do you use other email apps or just Apple Mail ? If it is only in Apple mail, then what is it doing if there is not an unsubscribe link in the email message ?