Thursday 1 August 2013

Fed up with spam on your iMessage? Now you can report them to Apple directly

Email services today have powerful filters to keep spam mails away from your inbox. But what about spam that occasionally arrive as text messages on your phone? Apple has introduced a new way to report such spam messages that arrive on your iMessage.

Spotted by the folks at 9To5Mac, the support document lists the process for reporting spam to Apple. All a user needs to do is take a screenshot along with the sender’s email id or phone number and send these details to Apple at imessage.spam@icloud.com.
This method may not be very state-of-art when compared to the spam filters on today’s email services, but with the forthcoming iOS 7 Apple is expected to offer a more advanced blocking system. Using this blocking feature, it is said that users can block any number or contact from messaging and calling them.