Accidentally reported text as junk on iPhone

I made the same mistake. Yes, I think it sends a report/notification to Apple when you mark them "junk", indicating that they are "bad" numbers. I don't know if Apple would act upon one notification for a number. In any case, my best suggestion is to get in touch with Apple via chat. They are very helpful, they check everything and correct it.

I FINALLY figured it out

After accidentally sending my fiances number to spam, I was relentless trying to figure out a solution

Called Apple, after 1 hour & 45 mins on the phone I decided to take matters into my own hands (They were absolutely no help what-so-ever, thanks for wasting my time Apple).

I found the Solution & it WORKED!!!! - Yes, it WORKED!

First thing is first: You need to have another device with your Apple ID

(I sent my fiances number to junk/spam using my iPhone)

Second: Log into your iMessage onto your 2nd device (not the one you used to junk/spam the message), when you log into iMessage you should get a code sent to your device, I don't remember exactly what the message said, but I got the code on my iPad and typed it into my iPhone (or the other way around, don't remember)

Third: Send the person (you sent to junk/spam) a iMessage on your second device..(When you send it to them on your second device, it will show on your iPhone) after it shows the conversation on your iPhone you can start messaging them again!!

This worked for me, I am currently iMessaging the person I sent to spam/junk

Hope it helps guys!!

Reply to the message if you need a better explanation, I tried my hardest to explain it as simple as possible!

Merry Christmas!🙂

I did this about an hour and a half ago.. then spent an hour on chat to come to the conclusion from a supervisor that it does not matter if you "Report Junk" your messages by accident, it won't have any affect on your incoming messages unless you block the actual number or the number that was reported had been reported by a number of people. No need to reset your phone.

FYI i know that in some of the threads it says that even if you report as Spam it wont have any effect but i made the same mistake while cleaning my conversations and now all the alerts that i used to get from my bank are not coming through. i called my bank and they say that when they try to send me the alert it bounces back to them showing they are blocked.

Okay - I just did the exact same thing...and restored from a few hours ago...all is good on my phone....

however, like the first person said....we both pressed "reported as junk"....when trying to clean out our text messages....

so....how do we take THAT back? I'm assuming reported as junk means...it sends Apple a notification that these are BAD phone numbers.

Or does Apple take into account mistakes happen...and if a number shows up as "junk" over a number of times...then it is blacklisted.

This is all I wanted to know, was if marking as junk REALLY mattered. Like, what does it even do? I only just discovered the bulk select tool for messages, and then also marked a ton of my family and contacts as junk. It seems as though this doesn’t matter at all.. so thank you!

I think this answers the original question the best.

I did the exact same thing. I never saw “report to junk” option either. What will happen now? Are those contacts (same as you they were a mix of family, friends and misc) blocked now, will I still receive texts from those people or...?

is this true? are you sure. i really need to still receive text messages from those contact’s old threads that i deleted to clear out my messages. what a terrible feature. no well timed warning or anything. options were either cancel or report as junk. i accidentally reported as junk. THEY WERE NOT JUNK. who would do that anyway? stupid feature. Apple and their updates are making me so upset and wanting to switch to Samsung.

I also am baffled that Apple made this so easy to do by mistake. It seems to have become par for the course that there's no way to understand what we've all done now. Has Apple reported our friends as spammers to the phone companies? Are messages less likely to get through? Can we undo the action?

Ok sure but how does that help me unblock or I report them?

hi can u plz help me i hit the wrong botton when i went to delete msg i hit report as junk

Same thing happened to me. I’ve never seen that option before and I thought it was the delete button. So now I don’t receive texts from those people any more and I don’t have a backup for my phone.

Same thing happened to me twice! Here’s an idea for Apple how about you put delete on top and report junk underneath for those of us who just use our muscle memory 90% of the time.

ChristCarriesMe,

After the restore they will be unblocked, assuming that they were unblocked when you made the backup.

Good luck.