I have been too hitting that by mistake. I love the idea of “Report as Junk” but move the button somewhere else when deleting a text thread so it isn’t mistakenly tapped.
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Disable "Report Junk" when deleting messages?
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This has to be the most frustrating forum post i have ever seen. I actually registered to respond.
To all the people responding in the lines of "I love this feature why don't you?" ... the original poster didn't ask for your opinion. They are interested in finding out how to disable this feature. It's either yay - you can turn it off or nay- you can't.
I dislike it very much. I can't stand that there another layer added to something that worked fine before. On top of that, the button is where the finger/thumb position is naturally so you are more likely to report a message as junk on accident. Bad design for an incredible useful feature.
To all the people responding in the lines of "I love this feature why don't you?" ... the original poster didn't ask for your opinion. They are interested in finding out how to disable this feature. It's either yay - you can turn it off or nay- you can't.
I dislike it very much. I can't stand that there another layer added to something that worked fine before. On top of that, the button is where the finger/thumb position is naturally so you are more likely to report a message as junk on accident. Bad design for an incredible useful feature.
This is a very weird thread. I am the one who created it (or so I thought) and now I see my post somewhere down in it. No one above me addressed my question.
I wonder if I was merged into another thread or something!
I wonder if I was merged into another thread or something!
I accidentally marked a message from Apple as Junk. Maybe now they’ll notice. LOL
Is there an answer to this? Can we disable the report as Junk every time we delete a message? This is cumbersome, unneeded and annyoing.
I can't stand this feature. I'm pretty sure the people that think it so great now are going to grow tired of the extra step to delete. At the very least apple should have the option in settings to turn it off. Makes zero sense not to. For those of us that keep our messages cleaned out it becomes very annoying really fast.
I feel like they've done this before- it feels very familiar. In any case- I also hate the feature. More often than not (99.9999% of the time) I'm not reporting something as junk- so why ask me every single time I delete something from someone outside of my contacts? I'll let you know when it's junk......
Also people PLEASE report feedback - this is officially how Apple knows what aggravates us.
Also people PLEASE report feedback - this is officially how Apple knows what aggravates us.
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Exactly what I thought when I started reading through this thread. I registered just to concur with you lol.
This is an infuriating feature. I've accidentally reported junk to way too many messages. WITAF. I use 2FA via sms for some accounts. I get bank notifications frequently. So I delete those. I don't want to report those as junk. They need to revert this or remove immediately. Whoever thought this was a good UI fails so miserably.
Please Apple, add a disable button in the messages settings for the love of God. I agree with everyone here who says they don’t want the extra step.
It’s totally annoying and I don’t mind removing the message myself every time it comes up.
I would have never upgraded to iOS 16 if I knew my messages were going to constantly ask me after deleting something to report or don’t report. Ugh!
It’s totally annoying and I don’t mind removing the message myself every time it comes up.
I would have never upgraded to iOS 16 if I knew my messages were going to constantly ask me after deleting something to report or don’t report. Ugh!
Everyone please submit your feedback to Apple. That's our best chance of getting this annoyance resolved.
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Agreed. Every account has two-factor authentication sent as a text message. This is an unnecessary step in deleting the messge. I accidentally blocked message from Fidelity, but it looks like the "from" number is generated for each notification. So I guess more of an inconvenience than a problem. How about one option to delete or report as junk?
I was just going to reply to this thread that having a "Delete" and a "Delete and Report Junk" would be the way to fix this!
It’s a nice feature to have but an option to disable it would definitely be nice. I order things online pretty often such as through the Best Buy app. Receiving a text about my order being ready for pickup is nice but I don’t necessarily need to keep the message nor do I want to report it as junk. I definitely agree that it’s annoying because I have unintentionally reported plenty of messages as junk. They definitely need to make it optional.
I hate this feature, and it's still there in IOS 16.0.2. If it could be turned off, that would be fine, but that doesn't seem to be possible. It's very behind the times in its implementation, since almost every site requires two factor authentication these days, which means if we're doing online banking or confirming appointments, we're going to receive numerous messages from numbers not in our address book. Also, as an IT guy, I learned years ago to not maintain my address book from a small easily lost device. Which means I maintain my address book on my computer, then transfer it to my phone, which means even more hassle to add random unimportant numbers. Apple, come on. I don't want to move to WhatsApp or Messenger. Textra is a very good messaging service with nice easy to use features, too, but it's only available on the devices your rivals make. Let's level things up. They're getting ahead of you.
As was mentioned above, it will be drastically improved in 16.1, with "Delete" and "Delete and Report Junk" being two separate top level buttons, rather than being a second step. But regarding your mention of two factor authentication messages, what I really wish Apple would do is add an option to automatically delete these once they are used. Obviously the OS can already identify these kinds of messages (to facilitate automatically pasting them into the site or app), and these messages are useless after that point, so why not just automatically delete them?
It's a little better in 16.0.2. They've at least arranged the prompts in a way that makes it easier to choose the correct answer. But it's still a three step process to delete one of these messages, whereas it's a one step process to delete an email message in IOS mail if you uncheck the "Ask Before Deleting" option (it's two steps if you leave it checked). We all work differently, so I'm a firm believer in preference choices (such as the "Ask Before Deleting" choice in the mail app).
Before the great recession, I developed sales databases for MacWorld, PC World, and several other IDG companies. If I wanted sales people to actually use those databases, I asked a lot of questions, then built-in the features they wanted most as defaults, then included as many preference settings as possible so that end users could tweak it to their style. The choice to "ask before deleting" is baked into the Windows file system and many other places (including IOS mail), so I'm surprised Apple glossed over this obvious nod to user customization and satisfaction. The Messages app gets 5 thousand 4 star ratings in the App store, whereas WhatsApp gets 11 million 5 star ratings. Things like this probably contribute to the lower rating, and it would be so easy to fix it.
I don’t mind the option but the order is annoying. But shouldn’t be the top option of the two. I keep accidentally reporting a 2FA or other similar text messages as spam, rather than just deleting. Also, for folks who don’t want the step, should have the option to turn it off. But please, change the order so the default/top is not reporting junk.
You should realize that your contacts would grow two or three fold in just a short time if you added every address to them. It seems pretty simple to me, whenever half the people love a feature and half hated it, Apple should add an ON/OFF switch. I personally hate it.