Turn off Report Junk in iMessage on iPhone

Yeah, PLEASE provide an option for the user to turn this off completely. While you're at it.

1. The user should also be able to turn off the App Library screen in its entirety. I don't want to swipe into Apple BS territory ever time I am swiping around my app screens. If you want to really help, add more app screens. When I want it (almost never), I'll turn it back on.
2. Ditto Notification screen in its entirety. (Two settings, the first turn off notifications globally, and second switch to hide notification screen). When I want info, I'll go find it. In the meantime, don't waste my time with yet another Apple BS screen I have to accidentally swipe into.

Don't use either (well I did delete a third of my apps after seeing how many apps I had that I never use).

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.

Ken1222 wrote:

I just reported the issue on the Apple Feedback link. After describing the problem and providing my information there is a mandatory drop down to select what OS you’re using.

Unfortunately the most current selection is 15.7…hopefully all the complaints don’t get routed to the iOS 15 bin.

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This is what I see when I choose iPhone:

100% agreed. I like to clean up and keep my message folder short and simple. So I delete message threads all the time. The report as junk makes me worry I won’t receive future important updates because I accidentally marked as junk once… an easy fix would just be to include the different options in the same pop up. That is “delete; Mark as junk and delete; cancel” or similar - I don’t know why they have to be two separate pop up’s…

This is the only thing about iOS 16 that I don't like so far. It is driving me insane because I've accidentally reported as junk at least 3 entities that I definitely did NOT want to report as junk. And I also don't know where to go to 'undo' this action. I'm concerned that I will be blocking myself from important messages. I hope that's not the case, but at any rate, Apple, please please move this interface to another method. Tap and hold, then Report Junk would work, but DEFINITELY don't keep the current arrangement where it automatically brings up the option to take such a rash action and makes it WAY to easy to accidentally do. And don't add an extra step to create a barrier to quickly deleting text threads like this does.

I've read it doesn't really do anything when you report it, just put it in the deleted items. However you can bring it back by going to Edit / Show Recently Deleted.

Having an option to invoke the reporting (like holding down on the message or sliding) would have been a much better idea than making it part of the normal flow of deleting.

After updating to IOS 16, i am required to choose 1) to report or 2) not to report junk on any text I wish to delete that does not have a sender in my contact list. i want to turn this filtering off. I get many legitimate texts from entities that are not in my contact list. I find this additional filtering step to be excessive and overly aggressive and a time waster.

It is actually even worse because first you have to click on the red thing and then move your finger to click on the blue thing

if you dont move your finger and click again, it just reports it as junk mail and may filter things in the future without you knowing

I just hit “report as junk” to a text from my medical provider that I wanted to delete. I hate this feature. Apple seems bent on adding options we don’t want, don’t need and didn’t ask for in the first place.

Turn. This. Feature. Off!

Pculig wrote:

. Apple are you listening?

Yes, Apple certainly was listening to the millions of complaints that there was no way to report text messages as junk. So they added a way. I guess you can’t please everyone.

cburg59 wrote:

True, you can't please everyone, but an "Opt in/Opt out" feature would. Per your earlier and helpful suggestion, I submitted my complaint and solution to Product Feedback.

I will, also. Apple isn’t big on too many options, but a better implementation is still called for. I’ve gotten used to it, but I don’t like it.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I will, also. Apple isn’t big on too many options, but a better implementation is still called for. I’ve gotten used to it, but I don’t like it.

Lot new changes which arrive with each new major iOS update each year, I too have gotten used to this, but also agree the implementation could be better.

Your “at the very least “ would not be at all acceptable. Some of the other suggestions are really what is needed such as when you slide to delete have an option for delete and an option for reporting is junk.

This feature is absolutely horrible. I have accidentally hit report junk so many times. I am looking for a way turn it off as well, but as we all know….Apple knows what is good for us (lol). If I miss a future text because of an inadvertent thumb strike I may just go Android. This could be a gamechanger for me. I get many texts daily from multiple people in different facets of my life. Not everyone is in my contact list. The problem is that if they are it just says delete. If they aren’t then the report junk come up, but I am so accustomed to hitting the delete that I have way too many “oh, s&@(t” moments. FIX THIS APPLE!