Spam email getting into email app on iPhone but not Ipad

See the following Apple articles:

Block phone numbers, contacts, and emails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Block phone numbers, contacts, and emails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Block unwanted callers in FaceTime on iPhone

Block unwanted callers in FaceTime on iPhone – Apple Support (UK)

See also this Apple article:

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

 👉 If you receive a suspicious email or SMS text message that looks like it's supposed to be from Apple, please email it to reportphishing@apple.com

To report illegal, obnoxious, unwanted or malicious e-mail from an Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live or MSN account, please forward the unwanted message in its entirety (including the entire message header), to abuse@outlook.com

Gmail -> https://support.google.com/a/answer/178266?hl=en

Thanks for the links.

I’m still unclear as to why the mail app is behaving differently on my iPhone than it is on my iPad.

The same spam I see in my phone’s inbox is being caught and not showing in my tablet’s inbox.

is there a setting I’m missing somewhere?