Blocking / Reporting Spam Texts

Thanks for writing that reply. But now I have received a spam message that is SMS, so turning on 'filter unknown senders' does not place the spam in the Unknown Senders category, and I cannot figure a way to report.

I have the same problem as the last poster....the message is SMS and does not get put in the Filtered Tab. Is there a way we can force it there so as to be able to report to Apple?? I, too, am on IOS 10.....did not realize they were having this problem.

Hi Peter,

If the number that is sending the spam text is visible and not a hidden number, you can always block that number, you might have to do this often but it should reduce the number of spam message you recieve.

Spam SMS message are not something Apple can address; this is something you need to contact your telephone provider about.

In my country we also have an option to list a mobile number as a "do not call" number, this stops Spam calls and SMS and has to be set up through your telephone carrier, assuming they provide a similar service.

thanks. I found that you can forward the data to AT&T. The phone number was included and surprisingly it was a landline. They have the information. For others who may have AT&T as their carrier and seek a way to help stop this here is the information I dug up with the step by step instructions:

https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1009046

bestsides wrote:

I have the same problem as the last poster....the message is SMS and does not get put in the Filtered Tab. Is there a way we can force it there so as to be able to report to Apple?? I, too, am on IOS 10.....did not realize they were having this problem.

Apple really has no control over or no way to stop SMS messages. In the U.S. you can report spam messages to your carrier by forwarding the message to SPAM (7726).

Thanks for asking this question, Peter. I just received an iMessage spam and went looking for how to report it, which led me to your question here. Thanks to the second article you linked, I turned on the "Filter Unknown Senders" option in Settings > Messages. Upon returning to Messages, the spam message I received was then shown under unknown senders. However, when I viewed the message, there still was no "Delete and Report Junk" option.

Here's where a little serendipity happened. I tried to take a screenshot of the spam message, with the intention of emailing it to "imessage.spam@apple.com". But I accidentally powered off my iPhone instead. I immediately rebooted it, and when I returned to viewing the spam in Messages, now the "Delete and Report Junk" option appeared! Whaddya know.

Next time, I'll try quitting the Messages app and then re-opening it to see if I get the same result without requiring a reboot.

Once I reported the spam, I went back to Settings and turned off "Filter Unknown Senders", as I don't normally want that enabled. It's an inconvenience to have to jump through these hoops just to report a spam iMessage, but until Apple corrects its mistake, the process above is a workaround.

What Apple ought to do is make the "Delete and Report Junk" option appear under iMessages from unknown senders whether the "filter" option is on or not. Another UI approach would be to long-touch on any iMessage, and when the little menu slides up from the bottom of the screen where it presently says "Copy" and "More…", simply add a "Delete and Report Junk" option to that menu. (Being so close to the "Copy" option, a confirmation dialog should be required before actually deleting and reporting.)

This is second message I can't block its

It's coming with different names

I received a spam text today as well from a junk email address. Were you able to find out how to block these? I've only been able to find info on blocking iMessages