Has anyone noticed an absurd amount of SPAM on icloud emails? Apple used to have the best filters. I now get upwards of 100 emails every hour in my junk folder. I used to go months before getting even 10 junk emails. What happened to Apple's spam settings?
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If your account is pretty old your .mac and .me addresses are totally locked to your iCloud address as permanent aliases and can NEVER be removed. So you'll never be able to fix it from that standpoint. Try getting a spam filter like SpamSieve. Apple should be automatically doing something like that in my opinion. One solution, that could be very problematic, would be to get a different iCloud account. BUT, then you may lose some programs and will definitely lose Apple music or iTunes. Apple has no way you can move things to a new Apple iCould account without issues. Or do a new account but discontinue email totally on the old account and restart email with the new account. Then, you would still have access to things like iTunes but would have to sign in to your old account to use it. Due to the ever changing nature of spam nothing Apple offers truly works for long. Especially with spam from lists and groups. It just keeps coming with simple changes of a letter, or number somewhere in the from or to fields. What I was told was to send all spam to abuse@apple.com. Either directly or as an attachment. This takes time but if it overloads Apple maybe they'll finally start to take it seriously. Of course they don't read any of it but perhaps an uptick in numbers will be noticed. This is shameful on Apple's part. I have had many conversations with Apple about this and they either have no idea or what they offer won't really work. There is no reason I can think of for them not to allow the deletion of mac.com and me.com or to be able to switch to a different iCloud account without all the hassles and losses of programs, data, whatever. They can't even tell me what would really be affected.
I think you read it wrong. "iCloud storage is full scam"--not "full of spam." Some are getting a scam email reporting that their iCloud storage is full, and phishing for money through an "upgrade."
Ahhh - thanks!
Same here
Not to jinx it, but has this been partially fixed? Over the last two days I've noticed a dramatic drop in spam messages...20-25 per day compared to 150-200 per day. Anyone else notice the same?
Yes, my spam is greatly reduced.
Mine dropped off for a few days and came roaring back , so my respite didn't last.
I'm also suddenly getting hit with dozens of spam email in my Junk folder. Apple isn't the company that is used to be.
Here for this reason alone. It's becoming unbearable how much spam I get lately! I started exclusively using icloud email years ago because it only had emails I wanted. sigh.
I wonder if using a Firefox/ Mozilla address would be an answer. Mozilla was one of the internet pioneers. I left Windows after XP and 7 were replaced by 10, a real downgrade imho.
I’ve given up trying. I just ordered an Android Google Pixel 8 phone. Apple must know about the problem. I will probably dump me Macs and return to Windows too.
I couldn’t agree more! I am getting DELUGED with spam at my iCloud email address…so much so that I am gradually switching to Outlook, which has a far superior spam filter.
Spam and Junk to my Apple email has increased 100 fold in the last 2 months. It's really clogging up my work flow. No settings changed at my end. What's the story Apple?
I did not know you could use Outlook on a Mac. Will definitely check it out! thanks
Most of my legitimate emails from Apple are going to my junk folder. I don’t have time to go through all the emails to separate legitimate or spam so most emails from Apple are deleted.
I have over 400 rules......not really sure it does any good.
Spam overload on iCloud Email Address
