iPad spam email since iOS 15 install

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.

Spam that is caught by my email provider gets through to my Apple mail. I get the most spam (and really obvious stuff) on my iphone. If I go into Outlook on my PC or direct to the email providers website to get my email I do not see anywhere near the volume of ridiculous stuff I get on my iphone. I always select "move to Junk" so it supposedly "learns" but it never seems to learn anything.

I use Apple iCloud for mail, as well as third-party hosting for mail, and have seen no increase in spam.

Yahoo was breached twice per reports, and has been one of many sources of spam since then.

I routinely receive mail from a good friend with a Yahoo account. A good friend who died several years ago.

If y’all are interested in seeing where your email account (and variously also passwords!) have been leaked, visit:

… https://haveibeenpwned.com

ps: These data breaches and data leaks—and particularly those with password leaks—are why password re-use is so deadly.

Mccook969 wrote:

This answer id bullcrap! He already said he (we) are blocking the email addresses, but they have unlimited addresses! This is WIDESPREAD! Fix it! Give real, thoughtful answers!

If you can find an actual, viable, lasting solution to spam, you will be famous, and quite possibly earn a fortune.

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

Amen to that! It seemed to slow down for a bit it is back with a vengeance. This is an Apple issue. I have changed NOTHING for years, been using me.com for over 25 years. (Of course back then it was Mac.com). And YES, stop telling me it’s me cause I know it is NOT. Fix the problem APPLE.

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.

Since the last major update, even though the junk mail is marked junk, it goes into my inbox. In settings, I have set the preference that all junk mail to be moved directly to the trash, but it doesn’t work. All day, I deal with junk mail. Apple has gone downhill.

I too have used iCloud, me.com, email, for 10 years without any spam or junk emails. I always bragged about it and told my husband to get rid of Yahoo email to eliminate spam. And again, this is all since last 15.6 update.

I'm sorry but the boiler plate answers to this problem will not do. The reality is that many of us started to see that as many as 20% of the items in our "in Box" are from OBVIOUS fake senders. How they get through the Spam filtering is the fault of Apple, not the end user (who is always burdened with fixing the flaws in software that never get fixed).

To wit: here is one of many variations on the sender's address:

infopysiqgonpzxuwvkdtx0c@quytjm8z54ejf9etwbtn.mail-nat.workday.com'.

Sometimes there are TWO domains stuck together with two @ symbols. I know Apple can end this easily. So why won't they? It doesn't matter how many times you flag the message, mark it as spam, block the sender, and have it all go to the trash. They are back the next day with 20 more phishing emails from roof gutters to getting poisoned on Camp Lejeune. I am sure that your email servers can nip this in the bud. So, why won't you?

I use a me.com email account (also Apple; now called iCloud) and this same thing happened to me the day that I got a new iPhone with iOS15. I send the same 17 spam emails to the junk folder every morning and every morning those same 17 spam emails are in my inbox again. Many others do go straight to Junk every day. I'm ready to throw out everything and start over.

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 best courses of action are to disconnect your email from the default Apple mail app and wait 6 months or get a new email address.

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.

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.