Apple blocked imessage, accused of spam! Said can only unblock 1x

My daughter's imessage stopped working. After days of frustration, and hours on phone with various support agents, and rebooting phone to factory settings, we finally got to the bottom of it- She was blocked - accused of spam.


She is not spamming. I am trying to find out if anyone else is having this happen. An old discussion touched on topic, and stated that the apple support representative said even 1 person reporting someone as spam, could result in this happening.


Our support person stated that they can unblock 1x as a courtesy, BUT if it happens again, it could result in fines, even being completely blocked out of her apple id. Which of course stores decade's worth of pics, memories and contacts. Our support person said too it could be 1, 3, 5 pp reporting, they don't have a formula shared with them. She just had to read us the disclaimer.


I'm trying to look for a link that states HOW THIS WORKS. Where did we agree to this ...the terms of how someone is reported, and ramifications, etc. I'd like to read on apples legals...can 1 person really report you as spam & it just is?


If this happened to you, please share your experience. I already gave feedback. I plan to recall apple support to see if they can provide me a link to the legals as well.



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Posted on Aug 18, 2023 3:09 PM

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Dec 4, 2023 10:59 AM in response to TM_cali

Hello, I just got done messaging a support agent to unblock my account too. I was just banned yesterday somewhere between the hours of 2 PM CST and 6 PM CST. They said they blocked my account due to spam when the only person I even messaged yesterday was my husband. I asked the support person to tell me when my account was blocked since I was using imessage yesterday and then within a few hours I was blocked when I only messaged one person and he said "The system only shows that was yesterday. To be completely honest Kayla, it was just an error of the system or a bad interpretation of some message".


I just don't understand how they can do that to someone without any warning. My husband works in an area without a cell signal so we rely on imessages to communicate.

Jan 30, 2024 7:15 PM in response to TM_cali

So after hours on the phone, I got no resolution. She told me that my account was not being throttled anymore but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working now.


I was so frustrated that I sort of gave up for a week, then went on my computer and my imessage was working again!


Two days later......and it's not again. Hoping they will fix this trash on the back end and push out an update soon.

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