Suggestions to increase blocked senders

[Joepooch]

Back in early April, I suddenly became unable to block spam and malicious SMS messages. Then, in the final days of May, I was unable to block malicious and spam email senders. After multiple chats with Senior Apple Advisors, I apparently have blocked the maximum allowed contacts for both Mail and Phone/Messanger. Does anyone have an App suggestion to fill the void that Apple's OS won't allow?

 

[AppleForeverandEver]

Back in early April, I suddenly became unable to block spam and malicious SMS messages. Then, in the final days of May, I was unable to block malicious and spam email senders. After multiple chats with Senior Apple Advisors, I apparently have blocked the maximum allowed contacts for both Mail and Phone/Messanger. Does anyone have an App suggestion to fill the void that Apple's OS won't allow?

I think this is also a bug as I am getting the maxed out blocked sender list message with only 3k on my device. When you block you will get the warning, but it still does block it anyway.

 

[Joepooch]

I think this is also a bug as I am getting the maxed out blocked sender list message with only 3k on my device. When you block you will get the warning, but it still does block it anyway.

Yes, I believe that to be true. Back in January/February when I first experienced this issue, senior Apple Support reps told me it was a known bug with teams actively working on a fix. It was not until the last week of July when a new Apple OS was pushed out that reps informed me of this limit. Which, from a tech standpoint, makes no sense. The data space required to store individual addresses as "spam" is essentially inconsequential.

 

[BigMcGuire]

I imagine with the AI resource crunch, every second of computing they can save will become a priority now.

Always thought spam was usually from random accounts and that blocking the sender was an exercise in futility? <shrug>

 

[Joepooch]

Yes, as blocking never really did much, aside from visually informing me that the contact/content was spam. Regardless, it was a good feature to have, until it suddenly wasn't. 🤷‍♂️

 

[AppleForeverandEver]

I imagine with the AI resource crunch, every second of computing they can save will become a priority now.

Always thought spam was usually from random accounts and that blocking the sender was an exercise in futility? <shrug>

I donated to my party and was inundated with spam text’s ever since. I mean 20-30 texts a day. Would not be so bad except for the fact my company received much of its customer communications via text.😡

 

[Joepooch]

I donated to my party and was inundated with spam text’s ever since. I mean 20-30 texts a day. Would not be so bad except for the fact my company received much of its customer communications via text.😡

Similar scenario for me, the moment I was retired from the US Army in 2022, email & phone spam increased 10 fold year over year. So much so, that as I mentioned, I am now unable to block entities.

 

[gilby101]

You should try SpamSieve. Starts with good understanding of spam and not-spam, then learns from what you consider to be spam.

 

[AppleForeverandEver]

Similar scenario for me, the moment I was retired from the US Army in 2022, email & phone spam increased 10 fold year over year. So much so, that as I mentioned, I am now unable to block entities.

I have set my iPhone up to where people not in my phone book go to the unknown folder. Once a week I delete them all.