Hello, I have been receiving a lot of spam e-mail lately.
It seem like it started right after the install of iOS and iPad os 15.
I use Apple mail app.
It is just like the spam filter reseted and would't restart.
Does anyone have this problem?
I keep on blocking senders, but their is a endless number of them!
Did Apple remove the spam filter in favor of "Hide my e-mail"
What can I do?
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irayspot,
If you're using iCloud then we'd recommend following the steps here: Identify and filter junk mail in iCloud. This will help make sure that iCloud understands what is junk and what you want to see so that going forward the filters are more effective. Based on your description, these messages could also be phishing attempts. You can learn more about that here: Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams.
Hopefully this helps.
I updated my iPhone +2 version 15.3.1. I did this the day before yesterday. Yesterday morning I have over 500 brand new spam emails. At the most in a day I might get 20 or so. This is absolutely related to that update. Please, Apple, own this error and fix it. (While you’re at it, can you fix Siri? It doesn’t seem to understand words very well since I updated it.)
I’ve been getting spam daily for 20 years. There is nothing that Apple can fix. If someone sends you an email you will get it, unless your email provider blocks it. Your phone can’t do it, only your ISP can.
Of course, AT&T denies this. I solved most of the problem by downloading my email on my Windows HP computer under Gmail and reported spam. I am still getting a few emails in Spanish and some in Danish, neither of which I speak.
But the email still loads the images from the enemies servers. And that’s all they need to know that I exist, regardless that I live in Paris or Sydney or whatever apple is doing to spoof the location and tracking. As long as their web server gets a request to download the picture of a “Free iPhone”, they know that I opened the spam and that I’m alive. So therefore, they send more spam and they let their friends know I exist and they send spam too. A win win no matter where I live!
Don’t open spam email messages. I don’t get many spam email messages, maybe a few each year. I think that is because I am extremely picky about who I give my email address to and which email messages I open, I do not open email messages that I am not expecting to receive or don’t recognize the sender.. i move those email messages directly to the junk folder and wash my hands of the matter.
I have sbcglobal.net (AT&T via Yahoo) and have been overwhelmed with spam that is obviously so (misspellings, weird names). It happens on ALL my Apple devices (Mac, Macbook and iPhone 12). I'm using Apple Mail. I've checked the privacy settings to "Protect Mail Activity" on the iPhone. I have blocked every single one of these message senders (takes forever these days) and sent them all to Junk Mail (where it's suppposed to remember). NOTHING works. No one seems to be taking ownership of this problem. Will switching to gmail help?
Have found a similar discussion on another site suggesting that sbcglobal and Yahoo are failing in spam filtering. What a terrible position to be in - between AT&T (sbcglobal and Yahoo mail) and Apple support. No one seems to want to take ownership and all I'm getting is more and more spam email. Filters are on. Blocking each one takes forever and they continue to pour in.
skyrae wrote:
This is not solving the problem! Since install, I am inundated with obvious spam every hour, while legitimate emails are put in junk. Please look into this issue. I’ve also talked with friends experiencing the same issue. We’re fed up.
That’s because THERE IS NO SOLUTION. 60% of ALL email is spam, around the world. You may be fed up, but so are 6 billion other internet users. Whoever finds a solution deserves a Nobel prize. Spammers are adept at finding ways around spam filters; after all, their livelihood depends on it (if they couldn’t send spam they might have to get a real job), so they will use every trick they can find, and there are new ones all the time.
Hey Mrs Harvey! I wanted to say I 1000% agree with you! I have the original @me.com email address and I have never ever ever ever in my ten years of owning an apple iPhone gotten almost any spam email at all let alone hundreds a day out of nowhere.
I do wish a few of you overly persistent folks that keep negating this iPhone issue (Lawrence you’re one of them) to please STOP because something is definitely wrong that wasn’t before!! I don’t use any other form of email system except apple iCloud! No, no new sites or apps got my email, everything has remained consistent. Something with the 15 update definitely is triggering all of these spam emails, which I have been reporting and removing daily. Something is evidently wrong with iOS. Knock off the nonsense
15.6.1 gave way to incredible spam emails. They keep coming and coming on my hotmail and not my gmail. Apple needs to come up with a fix. Many people have this issue and it is only since the last update so it cannot be blamed on hotmail.
It is definitely due to iOS15 but not in the way you think. iOS attempts to hide whether you are opening an email from a sender by always “opening” by downloading the images used to track e-mail opens. The problem is that spammers can see this open and immediately get feedback that they sent an email that is mapped to an active Apple device. Then automated systems constantly will send. The only way to get off those lists is to never let those images get cached by opening the email which used to be possible until Apple made this update.
The spam is only in the Mail app, but my spouse have the same problem.
Why isn't the spam filter and sent to the spam folder as it use to?
IOS 15.1 causes junk spam emails that won't stop. No matter what I try and have read above in this forum, does not work. Do not upgrade.
I’ve had 70 spam today and every day since 15.3 update. Must be a bug, so unusual.
I don't know how it made, but the mail are not even sent TO me it is sent to this akilzachary385, the from Label is different in the list and the message. I dont' even know how to do this! I did not Click the unsubscribe button, since I did not subscribe and it is not a legit mail.
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iPad spam email since iOS 15 install
