iPhone No Longer Appears to be Blocking Emails or Phone Numbers

This is a monthly reminder that Apple’s iPhone mail app still has an unpublished, uncommunicated blocked email/phone number limit.

To make matters worse, the geniuses over at Apple (in their infinite wisdom), still think it is a great idea that you only be able to unblock an email address/phone number one at a time (instead of in bulk) - and due to the lag, this takes upwards of 10 seconds each.

This guarantees that it will take you a significant amount of time to purge your list.

Meanwhile hundreds of spam emails keep rolling in every single day…

I already know how to block email addresses and phone numbers and I certainly shouldn’t have to add any of that spam to my contacts in order to block them when a quicker and simpler way already exists.

The problem here is that Apple advertises that there is no limit to the number of emails or phone numbers that you can block.

However, as of now, that is no longer true. There is a limit. The only question is whether it is intended or a bug.

As stated previously, I can no longer block any additional emails or phone numbers. But let’s say I unblock three of those on my “Blocked” list. Well, then I can block three others before Apple again cuts me off and prevents me from adding any more.

If it is a bug, then fix it because this is extremely annoying.

If it is by design, then first publicly say so - otherwise Apple is lying. Furthermore, if that is in fact the case, then Apple also needs to implement a way to unblock emails and phone numbers collectively in bulk. I literally have several thousands on my blocked list and I can’t stress enough what a major pain in the rear it is to unblock each one at a time. It is a slow laggy process that takes around ten seconds for each and every one.