When it comes to SMS and voice calls, there may be legal and/or regulatory reasons preventing full on blocking of spam calls/texts. As for iMessage and calendar invites, they’re probably already doing something, either server-side or locally, since I seem to get very little spam that way. They’re also doing something via iCloud email, though it’s sometimes not enough. Are spam VPN profiles really a significant thing? A fraudulent VPN profile is a full on man-in-the-middle attack, so there’s all the reason in the world for outright blocking VPN profile requests.
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Apple's Junk Message Reporting Now Covers SMS for Select U.S Carriers in iOS 16
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I’ll be thankful for this. I don’t get spam texts too often, but it gets crazy around election season. I’ll need up getting multiple a day.
Privacy COULD be why it’s not being done. I need to look into how google call screening works. If all that information is sent back to Google for them to do a server level analysis, then Apple likely wouldn’t do that. If it’s happening on the phone, then I’d imagine it’s something that Apple would eventually do.
The campaign marketing texts are actual legit messages and replying STOP should take you off the list. It was getting out of hand in 2020 until I replied.
"By clicking Setup Blocking, you accept our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions including our agreement to resolve any disputes by individual arbitration and not by jury trial or class action."
I'm not sure what is worse. Telemarketers and spammers or billion dollar corps stripping their paying customers of their legal rights to minimize spammers.
thanks for the tip! didn't realize I had mine set to Hiya, hopefully reporting spam directly the carrier might increase the chances of similar messages being blocked upstream in the future.
great news about SMS spam reporting becoming a more obvious part of iOS. definitely would be nice to see more OS-level controls for dealing with common things like obvious fraud SMS with links, neighbor spam calls, setting up rules for repeat callers without having to add them as a contact.
That is not an option available to me on Verizon. Nevermind, I see I have to install an app. Does it actually work?
Some them stop, but others continue sending from multiple numbers. At first I’d reply to each one to get them to stop, but I eventually grew tired of it and now try to ignore them. 🤷🏻♂️
About bloody time.
What took them so long to implement this?
It gets so annoying that we have to constantly copy and paste carefully by not clicking onto the actual link.
What took them so long to implement this?
It gets so annoying that we have to constantly copy and paste carefully by not clicking onto the actual link.
Exactly, Google is a company I simply do not trust. They are Facebook with better public opinion.
Oh they do, in fact I’m using eSIM and a work provided SIM for data (which also accepts calls) and I have both carrier apps installed. Maybe they are doing more than I realize but I still get junk calls almost daily.
I also have Hiya which claims to do Caller ID but only works when I manually copy and paste a number from the missed call list. I’ve never had it block anything either, even when it is later identified as spam, and even though all the checkboxes are green under call blocking settings.
Hiya doesn’t work particularly well. NoMoRobo seemed to work decently well, from what I remember, but I seem to remember not wanting to pay for the subscription anymore.
T-Mobile tells you to send it to that same number and says "we'll reply" so I assume there is some sort of data sharing there.
I think you can add the number to your phone’s blocked numbers list, which should prevent getting texts.
I'd never get calls from new customers if I turned on that feature!
Sadly this is a huge, largely ignored factor. The FCC / FTC should take this issue much more seriously because it hurts small businesses the most.
It simply shows that privacy regulatory strictness can vary greatly between countries. In my country, not only there are spams from gambling sites and loansharks, even the carriers themselves are spamming their own customers with ringtones and scammy sms subscriptions.
It's funny how I get a text from someone new (that I expect) and it'll pop-up and ask me if it's spam. However, every time I receive a spam text I never see the pop-up.