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If Apple could somehow make phone and sms not useless due to spam that'd really save the average person. They must have the resources to throw at something like this. I'm not claiming to be an expert, I'm not saying I'm right, but phone spam is fucking awful.

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This seems to be a problem mostly localized to some countries. Device manufacturers should not be fighting a rotten network, the networks should be fixed instead.

Yeah but... here we are. In the US at least, I don't see this ever being addressed at the root. Everything between the user and the phone service is at least somewhat malleable, what's the problem with at least trying in one of those places?

Talk to your politician, it's a solved issue in other countries.

> If Apple could somehow make phone and sms not useless due to spam

1) A full solution to this problem is going to depend on mobile carriers making changes. It isn't something which Apple can unilaterally fix.

2) This is completely irrelevant to the purpose of "Lockdown Mode". It's intended to protect high-risk users from certain sophisticated threats -- it isn't a feature which most users should use.

Surely that's the responsibility of the providers, though? Apple can improve the situation a bit, maybe, but you'd really need to get AT&T & co to crack down on it to have any chance of solving it for good.

I know that I've had approximately zero spam on my German number (that I've had for ~2.5 years) - I'm sure why, whether I'm just lucky, or whether it's much more under control here. My UK number definitely had problems with spam, though. Maybe a couple of spam calls a week.

Nice, glad to hear it's at least reasonable elsewhere, It's very, very bad in the US, at least for my partner and I. We started getting unsolicited calls days after starting the house buying process because the credit reporting companies sell you off immediately. Very frustrating.

There are several redirection services that will pair your spam caller to a very chatty chatbot. Excellent way to make spammers pay.

Worst part of switching from Android (Pixel) to iPhone. It was shocking.

Phone spam as in text messages? Your email is a whole other thing

Yes indeed email is a whole other thing, that's why I didn't mention it :)

they do already do this, report the message as junk the number will be flagged as junk and messages from it will be filtered to the junk view.

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