IOS 13 Mail Contact Blocking not working Correctly

Will deleting my google account and starting a new one stop dating sites stop mailing me.My address was to me sold to a dating site .Now can not get rid and now more contacting because they now have my address now

Possible solution: In researching this matter, I find that email addresses that I intended to be blocked are not appearing in my blocked contact list. It appears that you can manually add the email address to the blocked contact list or:

When you receive an email that you wish to be blocked, Open the email and tap on the sender address, then block contact. This seems to add the email address to the blocked contact list more reliably as opposed to simply “moving to junk”. Moving your email to junk used to automatically add the email to your blocked contact list, but now you have to do it as described above.

Simple fix! Just go to Settings, Mail, and then under “Threading” you will see “Blocked Sender Options”

By default it’s leaves them in your inbox for some reason? Anyways, just change it to “Move to Trash” and your set.

So it’s actually pretty easy and I have no idea why apple has failed to explain this. Also the feature blocking it is pretty dumb.

go to your iphone settings, go to mail and go to blocked sender options. You can change it from “leave in inbox” to “move to bin”. Again why would you want your blocked senders in your inbox but hey maybe apple still wants a way in if you block their stuff ✌🏻 Hope this helps!

I believe that you will be “unpleasantly” surprised in just a short while. If what you blocked was simply a former friend this may well work. If,however, you are attempting to block a product sales pitch you will still have the problem. Apple is blocking the address sent from only, not the product they are trying to sell you. That same product will come back to you from hundreds of different addresses. They need to give you a choice of “address” or “product”!

Can you help me fix a Mail problem on my Mac running latest OS (Catalina)?

Blocked emails are not blocked. They show as they were designated as a blocked email, but they still appear in my inbox. I still have to send them to trash manually.

Really concise and works. Only thing it doesn't answer is why the default option leaves mail in the inbox and leaves notifications - I struggle to understand how someone felt this = "blocked" at all?

Are we using the same iOS? I don’t have a top-left option for anything from the mail app or Settings / Mail. And I definitely don’t have Setting / Mail / Mail, so no preferences either.

If you mean, open a blocked email (in the inbox), THEN I have preferences. I changed that months ago and it still returns them all to the inbox when. New one comes in.

First open an email you want to block. Click the sender (you may have to click twice), select Block This Contact.

the next time an email from that sender hits your inbox, click the sender (twice) and Preferences will show up in the upper left of the detail screen.

In reply to Hoodwink - I know senders use multiple addresses e.g Bitcoin sellers but I am getting mail from blocked senders using the blocked address with a note from Apple it is from a blocked sender- I have at least a dozen of these and another one this morning

And yet it’s not actually blocking them. That’s not an accident and someone needs to put the pressure on Apple to make it work.

I believe that’s people like us. If we don’t put some pressure on them in numbers it will probably remain broken.

In reply to wesleygg - I have never ever had the message “mail thinks this is junk” Just the message that it is from a blocked sender who is using exactly the same email address as the one I blocked

After: 1- flagging dozens of unwanted incoming Email addresses for blocking, 2- specifying “Move to Trash” under iOS Settings (for Email Threading), and 3- deleting from all my mail bins every past email from Blocked senders, All subsequent Emails from senders Clearly & Unequivocally marked as “Blocked” still enter my regular InBox.

My IOS devices all Clearly recognize and acknowledge that the unwanted email senders have been Blocked (the Hand symbol appears along with wording affirming the senders were Blocked).

My Mail-Thread-Settings Clearly direct Blocked emails to Trash.

This happens on both my iPhone and my iPad. it also happens to my wife who has the same Blocked email configuration on her iPhone.

Clearly, Apple software engineers are not incompetent. This problem, however, I suspect is a low priority. Making the next version of an overpriced phone IS a priority.

Rush Limbaugh is a HUGE Tech fan, and an Apple fan in particular. Regardless of anyone’s politics, wouldn’t it be nice if he said something on air.

Has anyone noticed that Apple has not chimed in on this thread to calm us all down and explain why this is happening. YOU KNOW THEY ARE AWARE OF IT AND YET NO RESPONSE FROM THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. It does not take a programming genius to know that this is a very fixable issue that they just refuse to fix. As I said in an earlier response, the only way they will understand is if we can affect their bottom line.