Turn off Report Junk in iMessage on iPhone

sgadler02 wrote:

Ugh...I am here because I desperately want to TURN OFF THE REPORT JUNK POP-UP. I am afraid I will report an important conversation and then their messages will be shunted into the eather. It pops up at just the wrong place and is a terrible nuisance.

Update to iOS 16.1 and your wish has been granted. Under iOS 16.1, when you delete a message you now have two options.

1. Delete
2. Delete and Report Junk

Tap Delete and you are done.

sgadler02 wrote:

Ugh...I am here because I desperately want to TURN OFF THE REPORT JUNK POP-UP.

That is not currently an option. You can let Apple know what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

It's tied to the "Filter Unkown Senders" feature (ugh). In the settings for Messages. Turn that off, and it the report junk stops.

You cannot disable this feature. However, if you update to 16.1.1 the Delete dialog has been reorganized so it is easy to just hit Delete and harder to hit Report Junk.

I, like everyone else, discovered this same annoying notice after updating to IOS16; and yes, Apple does need to send a 'fix' ASAP so the 'Report Junk' message stops popping up every time I delete a message.

But, I finally did figure out how to delete a message w/o needing to click the 'report junk' or 'don't report' options by just clicking delete twice. After you swipe and hit delete; the message ' are you sure...' will pop up; click 'delete'; and then when the 'report/don't report' message pops up, just ignore it, click the 'delete' again in the text message and it will be gone! Still an extra step of having to delete but not having to 'report or not' and accidentally hitting the wrong thing!

Good luck to all while we wait for the fix!

You are not writing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum. And you apparently haven't updated to iOS 16.1.2. This was actually fixed in iOS 16.1.1.

Joey Luder wrote:

They could simply offer the ability to turn it on or off. Then everyone is happy. Reporting true junk messages is one thing but flagging every 2FA code as possible junk is annoying.

Then tell “them” →Product Feedback - Apple rather than the other users in this user-to-user forum, who can’t change anything.

>And you apparently haven't updated to iOS 16.1.2. This was actually fixed in iOS 16.1.1.

Apparently I haven't. It's downloaded, but I see no 'install' button. (I have automatic install turned off). Whenever Apple deems to give me an install option, I'll update.

I’ve found that if I report a recurring sender as “not junk” it doesn’t keep asking about that sender.

In Settings > Mail just turn off the “follow up suggestion” toggle for messages.

You are only speaking with other users on this user to user only forum. Tell Apple what you think they should do --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

hogstrom wrote:

Same reply as others ... poor user experience ... make it optional. It's not a useful workflow.

We can guess then, you have NOT updated to iOS 16.1, where this was addressed?

As someone pointed out to me, this is fixed in the most recent update (16.1) ... Much better solution

Have you updated to iOS 16.2? It makes it much easier to NOT report a message as junk.

And when you report junk it just goes to the junk folder; it doesn’t go to Apple or anyone else.