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I'm getting Far Too Many spam/phishing text messages. When I read them on my phone, I have an easy way of blocking the sender. However, I don't see an easy way to block them when I read them on my Mac. Is there something I'm missing?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.4
Hey there, pjfarmer!
Thanks so much for using Apple Support Communities.
Being able to manage the phishing/spam messages you're receiving in your inbox is super important. We have some really great tools designed to help you accomplish exactly that. The first thing we'd recommend is utilizing the features built into Mail on macOS to mark mail as junk. This will help the Mail app improve the effectiveness of the junk mail filter going forward, each time you mark an item as junk: Reduce junk mail in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
If you've set up junk mail filters and they're not working as expected, we'd recommend that you work through the information in this article: If junk mail filters aren’t working in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
We hope this does the trick for you!
Cheers.
Thank you!
To put this answer into words, the way to block a sender while using Messages on MacOS is as follows:
Thanks, Nathan, but the problem I'm noting is with *text* messages in the *Messages* program on MacOS. Your answer pertains to Mail.
Thanks for your reply; what you've suggested is, indeed, what I do when on my iPhone. But the question I had was how to do easily block a message sender when on MacOS (I.e., my MacBook Air).
Should the user Blocks the sender on the iPhone and uses the Messages in iCloud, the Blocked Sender will appear ias Blocked on the computer
Again, thank you, but what I'm looking for is a way to block the contact *directly from the Mac* and without pulling out my iPhone.
I already do use Messages in iCloud.
Thanks again; @picas was able to answer my question.
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Blocking Messages senders from MacOS
