IOS 13 Mail Contact Blocking not working Correctly

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!

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.

That’s not happening. iOS actually DOES recognize the email as originating from a blocked contact. If it didn’t, Preferences wouldn’t show up, and you would have to manually block it every time. When you open a blocked email in the inbox, the option is “Unblock this contact.” For a different email address, the option would be “Block,” not Unblock.

I get the same thing. I’ve got blocked emails and it doesn’t do a thing to them. I still get toms of spam mail. The problem is that the junk mail in question is not coming from that source. The junk is coming from mass spam mailing address, such as adtracker, and u fortunately I have not found a way to type in a known mass emailer address and have it work.

Exactly! Still getting mail in my inbox from same senders and it says this message is from a blocked sender. What the heck?

That’s because they are not really trained specialist and are fed “canned” replies. Ask fir an advanced specialist or next level tech.

Go to settings, mail, blocked sender options. Select move to bin.

Are There any updates on this yet? I’ve literally tried everything to stop these junk emails. After trying to unsubscribe, (even though my email isn’t apart of their mailing lists) flagging, moving to junk and after all those didn’t change the fact that these emails are delivered daily to me I tried blocking it figuring that would stop my inbox from filling, I’m still receiving.

Why does nothing work?!

We have to realize we are talking to another computer.If the mail would be blocked no one would make money.Our info is sold like a coke.Unsucribe on anything is proving the address is good.That is what l get out of this.If you do block no money for the trash mail we are getting.No one knows how to stop .They just want to keep you hooked to make money.How sad.That is my take

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

Contact blocking does not work .Block should not come in at all.Defenition block is to keep away but not working.I blovk same gmail over and over that is stupid.Only thing l can come up with is if blocked no money made off the person sent to.Our address are sold but who gets the money space? Wish things would work.Apple says recover password but they mean make a new one .They do not know the meanings of words.Good luck

This problem with blocking email that doesn’t work no matter what you try has got to be blamed on Apple. It’s their OS. So we have to band together and figure out a way to force Apple to make it work.

the bottom line is $$$$. Hit them where it hurts. They have been given ample time to correct the issue and seemingly have done nothing.

the best way to MAKE them listen is to start buying competitive brands. Sales will tell them quickly why they need to correct the problem. A single voice or two is not going to do it. The PRESSURE has to be real!

if enough of us do this I guarantee that you will see a “magical” correction of this problem!

One of the problems with this approach, and they know this, is how difficult it is for a diverse group of people to actually agree to do it. But if they do, it usually gets things done.

Good luck everyone!

Thanks for your suggestion. I was hopeful. Did exactly what you said. Even restarted my iPad after doing what you said.

Did not work. Messages with the gray hand symbol(meaning blocked) just kept coming in.

I truly believe Apple could stop this “in a heartbeat “. They just choose not to for monetary reasons and the only way to make them listen is to make their money stream get smaller. It is unfortunate but that’s the way the system works.

thanks again for your response.

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?