Can’t block someone (from their perspective) if iPad is connected.
I am thoroughly convinced this is a confirmed and major bug that has not been recognized or reported properly to the Apple development team, to be fixed. If this is the first step in accomplishing that, I will go through the arduous process of explaining the problem and trying to convince the volunteer support people here first.
In summary:
Blocking somebody through iMessage on my iPhone has worked fine for over 10 years. I would not receive their messages anymore, and on their end, they would no longer see “Delivered“. This is how things play out when somebody is properly blocked. The second I connected an iPad and turned on device message forwarding, this stopped working. From my perspective, they seem blocked. From their perspective, they see “Delivered“. So from their perspective, they are not blocked.
This is the bug.
I have tried literally everything. I’ve tried disconnecting the iPad. Fully signing the iPad out of Apple login. I’ve insured that it’s no longer anywhere in my iPhone as another device. It seems that once it’s been turned on, no matter what you do, this bug will remain and users will successfully send messages that say Delivered on their end, even though I won’t see them on my end. This has caused several problems as the user doesn’t realize that they’ve been blocked.
At this point the only logical thing to do is for me to get a hold of a developer at Apple and have them look into this, but it seems like that’s probably impossible? You can go ahead and ask me to do a bunch of things to check first. Ultimately, unless you have figured out a “hack“ to solve this problem, we will end up back at the reality that this is a bug and it needs to be fixed. Please advise.
iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18
