Ways to Stop Getting Junk Messages on iPhone
There’s more than one way to stop receiving unwanted junk mail. And when it comes to spam and other unsolicited messages, you don’t want to spend a ton of time eliminating them when you’re on your mobile device.
While you won’t currently find a set of iPhone junk mail settings, that doesn’t mean you have to settle for receiving messages you don’t want.
We’ll show you various ways to stop getting junk mail on iPhone using both the Mail App and the Clean Email mobile app. This allows you to compare the features and tools to see which app helps you best eliminate those unwanted messages.
Report Junk on iPhone
One of the best ways to stop junk mail on your iPhone is by marking it as such. Once you do this, future messages should automatically go to your mail app’s Spam or Junk folder.
Report Junk in the Mail App
When you report junk in the Mail app, it covers all email services connected to the Mail app. This means you can stop junk mail in Gmail on iPhone as well as Outlook, Yahoo, and other services, in addition to iCloud Mail.
You have a few ways to mark emails as junk in Mail on iPhone:
- Swipe the email in your list from right to left, choose More, and select Move to Junk.
- Long-press (tap and hold) the email, choose Mark, and select Move to Junk.
- If you have the email open, tap the Move icon (folder) at the bottom and select Junk.
To mark multiple messages as junk, follow these steps:
- Tap Edit on the top right of the email list.
- Select each message you want to remove from the Inbox.
- Choose Move at the bottom. Then tap Move xx Messages…
- Pick Junk.
Report Spam in the Clean Email App
While it’s not necessarily difficult to mark emails as junk in the Mail app, this assumes you spend little time searching your iPhone for those unwanted emails. In the Clean Email app on iPhone, you can filter your inbox to quickly spot and then mark junky messages.
- Select Inbox in the menu and tap the Filter button at the top.
- Open Sent by and pick Automated System or Mailing List.
- You’ll then see all inbox messages you’ve received via automation or list.
- Tap Select to choose the messages or pick Select All.
- Tap More and pick Spam.
- Confirm your action and you’re done!
Unsubscribe From Emails on iPhone
Another method you can use to stop receiving unwanted junk mail is to unsubscribe from it. Maybe you subscribed to a newsletter to receive a discount or perhaps your email address landed on a mailing list unintentionally.
Unsubscribe in the Mail App
When Apple Mail identifies a subscription message, you’ll see an Unsubscribe option on iPhone. While this is handy, you do have to open each email to see this.
- Open a subscription email.
- Tap Unsubscribe at the top of the message.
- Choose Unsubscribe in the pop-up window to confirm.
- Follow the same steps to stop additional email subscriptions.
Unsubscribe in the Clean Email App
Similar to Apple Mail, Clean Email also identifies messages that come from mailing lists. The benefit of using Clean Email’s Unsubscriber feature is that you can see all subscriptions in one spot and then unsubscribe from multiple messages at once.
- Select Unsubscriber in the menu and you’ll see all subscriptions grouped by sender.
- To remove yourself from a single subscription group, tap Unsubscribe on the right.
- To remove yourself from multiple subscription groups, tap Select and then choose the message groups or pick Select All at the bottom.
- Choose Unsubscribe.
With Unsubscriber, you can see all emails you unsubscribe from, resubscribe if you like, and even pause subscription emails temporarily for a quick inbox cleanup.
Block Senders on iPhone
Another way to eliminate junk is to block the sender. This then stops messages from that sender from reaching your inbox.
Block Senders in the Mail App
There are a few ways to block senders in the Mail app on iPhone, but here’s the most common method.
- Open the message and tap the email header to open it as well.
- Select the sender of the message.
- Choose Block this Contact.
- Confirm with Block this Contact.
- Follow the same steps to block additional senders.
Screen Senders in the Clean Email App
Because junk and spam come from senders you don’t know, the Screener feature of Clean Email is ideal. With it, emails from unknown senders are kept in a specific spot, so you can save a ton of time compared to the Mail app.
- Select Screener in the menu and you’ll see all messages grouped by sender.
- Choose Block or Unsubscribe to stop the junk emails. For those you want to keep receiving, just tap Allow.
Turn on Mail Privacy Protection on iPhone
There is one more feature of the Mail app on iPhone you can use to deter unwanted messages called Mail Privacy Protection.
Senders of spam can insert pictures in their messages that load automatically when you open the email. This then indicates to the senders that the recipients have active email accounts because they opened the messages.
By enabling Mail Privacy Protection, you can stop the images from automatically loading in emails and thus (hopefully) stop the senders from becoming aware that you have an active email account.
- Open the Settings app and select Mail.
- Tap Privacy Protection in the Messages section.
- Turn on the Protect Mail Activity toggle.
This feature is a good one to consider if you believe your iPhone junk mail settings are not working correctly or effectively.
More Ways to Stop Junk Mail on iPhone With Clean Email
For more ways to prevent junk messages from landing in your mailbox, you might scour the App Store for an effective spam email blocker for iPhone. But with the smart and efficient features of Clean Email, you can save yourself both time and energy.
Get Cleaning Help
If you have more messages than you know what to do with, take advantage of the Cleaning Suggestions. Based on previous actions and other app users, this tool provides recommendations on how to handle emails.
Best of all, you can manage these messages in bulk too. You may see a suggestion to unsubscribe, block, or archive. Then with a simple button tap, you can act on multiple emails from one sender at once.
Use Automated Rules
You can’t set up Gmail filters or Outlook rules to automatically manage incoming emails on your iPhone. But with the Auto Clean feature, you can!
Create a rule to move messages to the Trash, mark them as read, or attach a flag. Whatever rules you want to set up for inbox management, Auto Clean in the Clean Email mobile app has you covered!
About Clean Email
Clean Email isn’t an email client in itself, but a supplementary tool that helps you manage your mailbox with little effort. And, when you want to organize, block, or unsubscribe from messages on your iPhone, you can speed up the process with Clean Email.
The app works with all IMAP accounts. So, not only can you manage services iCloud Mail and Gmail, but also handle spam and junk mail in Outlook on iPhone. Plus, the features you see in the Clean Email mobile app are all available and work the same way on the web and desktop too.
