On the Mac, when receiving a spam email, there is a “mark as spam“ button that you can click to mark it as spam. This is supposed to train the algorithm to recognize similar spam messages later. My question: Where is the mark as spam button on iOS? I see only a trash button, which as I understand it, only deletes the message without training the algorithm.
ipadOS 14.2
iPad Pro, iPadOS 14
Not so.
Moving an email to the Junk folder, as described in the link provided by ProustGiulio, is the iOS/iPadOS equivalent of “mark as spam”.
So the answer is no. Mail on iOS has NO spam training features.
Maybe I've been doing it wrong, so I read the linked page carefully, and there's nothing there to suggest that flagging a particular message as "junk" causes iOS to learn that a particular type of mail is junk. If that were the case one would expect the article to say so.
Well, it doesn't seem to be working. I've been using the Junk button for a long time, and it doesn't seem to be learning what is and isn't spam. For example, I've been getting a flood of spams for job sites, even though I'm not in the job market, and clicking the Junk button doesn't seem to be doing a thing. It shouldn't be that hard for it to figure out that any message with the word "job" in the title is probably spam.
Mark as spam on iOS?
