Turn off Report Junk in iMessage on iPhone

I have the same issue that I cannot delete a message without the report as junk coming up and I do not want this feature turned on. They should have a way to report as junk without having it come up automatically every time you delete a message. I use a lot of sensitive programs that require text authentication, and this feature is driving me insane coming up every time I delete a message. I have accidentally marked as junk codes for logging in and hope it doesn't cause me issues signing in later on. They need to make this feature something you can turn off if you do not want it.

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!

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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I got locked out of one of my software programs because I accidentally hit the report junk and now I no longer get the text message verifications. I went to my blocked and it has about 100 blocked numbers so no way to know which one to unblock. They need to fix this.

Ironically I got 2 different political messages this weekend that WERE JUNK. I swiped to delete and neither brought up the option to "Report as Junk". I actually started looking for ways to report and haven't found them yet, but you would think it would be a bit more obvious.

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.

>I've read it doesn't really do anything when you report it, just put it in the deleted items.

Well if that's true it doesn't make any sense. You have to delete the message first, so if report it just deletes it also, that's completely superfluous. I swear everything on Apple takes 2+ more clicks than to do the same thing on Android. Sheesh.

Also- to anyone else reading- please allow us to turn is off. It's unnecessary extra clicks.

Jasong222 wrote:

>You are not writing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum

Yes, I know that. Doesn't mean they don't read it.

True, but they don’t read the forum for suggestions. Anyone at level 6 and higher can communication directly with the forum managers and have regular meetings, so we do know they don’t read it.

And it’s been fixed, anyway.

Jasong222 wrote:

>You are not writing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum

Yes, I know that. Doesn't mean they don't read it.

They don't actually. But what was the point of asking them fix something they already fixed?

>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.

>True, but they don’t read the forum for suggestions. Anyone at level 6 and higher can communication directly with the forum managers and have regular meetings, so we do know they don’t read it.

Well, my initial comment was: "Also- to anyone else reading- please allow us to turn is off. It's unnecessary extra clicks. "

So just, consider that to include anyone 'level 6 and above'.

All moot because as you say, it's been fixed. Ostensibly.

Anyone level 6 and above, still do NOT work for Apple. This is a user to user only forum. The folks at Apple you might hope would be here are not here. Just other users like yourself.

And it hasn't ostensibly been fixed. It has been fixed, but you won't see it has until you finish the update.

>Anyone level 6 and above, still do NOT work for Apple.

Right. And "Anyone who might be reading this" (Who can then pass this on to anyone who might care about it, applies. As you write about your 'level 6s' and above. I never said, wrote about, nor required, that it be Apple employees.)

>You seem to not get what this forum is about.

I kinda disagree. I've heard nothing that's different than my original, pre-comment, expectations. And I got what I was looking for. The forum has met any expectations I had.

You read too much into that line. I was not looking to 'open a ticket' or 'speak to the manager'. It was an observation, a wish cast out to the sky to no one in particular, just on the simple chance that somehow, down the line, a decision maker may perhaps see it and add it to the 'collective' of opinions. If they don't, then so be it. If 'no one's there', then that's no problem, I wasn't looking for anyone to be there.

Anything else is putting more weight to it than intended.

This “enhancement” is problematic for many reasons, including, but not limited to, inadvertently labeling essential communications as junk and not receiving them, demanding “customers” attention, inadvertently sharing protected and private information with Apple, and producing valuable data for Apple at the cost of its “customers.”

Requiring a junk label for every text is poor design. Like most email software, users should be able to self select junk reporting at their discretion and otherwise be able to delete messages without being nagged.

Please don’t report any spam to Apple, as they’re undeserving of the information. Doing so provides them with value at your expense.

Please do not respond to this asking me or others to request a new feature. Users did not request this feature, and Apple only crowd sources ideas convenient or valuable to them without transparency about how users can influence products.