In this guide, we will be discussing about the new Delete and Report Junk option that is accessible while deleting a message in iOS 16. The sixteenth iteration of the OS has bought in quite a few noteworthy features and UI changes to the fore. While the former has been welcomed with open hands, the same cannot be said for the latter. Recently, we reported about many user’s infuriation with the Allow Paste prompt that appears every time you paste something from the clipboard.
And now, there has been another entry to this list, but this time the users are having a divided opinion. For the unaware, when you delete a message thread in iOS 16, then you would now get an additional Delete and Report Junk option, apart from the usual Delete Message and Cancel options. So if you are getting messages from an unknown contact, then reporting them is now just a tap away. So where lies the issue?
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Why users are against the Delete and Report Junk feature in iOS 16?
According to many users, the issue is with the positioning of this option. Many users are ending up unintentionally reporting a legitimate message as junk. For example, messages from courier delivery, banks, OTP, and Two Factor Authentication codes all come from a number that isn’t saved in their phone. So for each of these messages, iPhone displays the Report Junk option, which users end up accidentally tapping on.
While on paper it might sound like a silly mistake to do, but trust us, if your hands are set on a particular action for ages then you get used to it and you might end up committing that action even before you realize it. So for these set of users, they are voicing their concern that not all unknown numbers are junk and hence the option to report them as junk shouldn’t appear in this location.
According to them, Apple should have placed this option at a different location, such as on long pressing a thread. Moreover, users have said that if they really want to report a message, they could easily do so by getting in touch with their carrier. This then brings us to our second set of users who are in fact welcoming the addition of this feature.
Why some are favoring the Delete and Report Junk feature?
According to this batch of users, they no longer have to take the long route of reporting spam, as they could now directly do so from the message screen itself. Moreover, they are strictly against the notion that this is a UI/UX drawback because this isn’t something that Apple has hidden or made transparent. It’s right in front of you.
So if someone accidentally ends up interacting with this option then it is completely their fault, and not Apple’s. Well, this seems to be a never-ending debate with no fix in sight. But in between all this, one question has been asked quite a lot-
How to Disable Delete and Report Junk in iOS 16?
Unfortunately, you cannot disable the Report Junk option when deleting a message in iOS 16. The only course of action that you could take is to give your feedback about this to Apple using its dedicated website.
Still, you shouldn’t expect any action on this until and unless the Cupertino giant gets enough negative feedback about this feature, which judging by the looks of it, isn’t going to happen as one-half of the population is in sync with the addition of this feature.
On that note, we round off this guide about the new Delete and Report Junk option that is accessible while deleting a message in iOS 16. Are you in favor of this new functionality or strongly against it? Do let us know your valuable options in the comment section below.
Rose Ann Weatherly
I HATE the report junk feature. I accidentally hit it on texts that are not junk every once in a while. Way too busy in my day to have to do this when I just want to delete a text. And no way to undo it!
Youre
This long drawn out article is just as bad as the report junk option. For those who aren’t smart enough to skim the bs and just get to the point. I have no sympathy. For the Author, you just suck.
Steve Weinstein
I hate this feature of report junk or not. I have often mistakenly hit the top button which is report as junk when I did not mean to I just want to simply delete my texts.
Aaron Cream
I do not like that I have to choose if a message is junk or not each time I delete a message on my iphone. Please remove it or allow for it to be disabled. It’s not necessary and 99% of my messages are NOT junk anyway, so having to do that each time, is inconvenient and annoying. Please allow for it to be disabled.
Janet Flemmons
I understand that it’s handy when needed, but there should be an undo for when you accidentally click on it.
Garry
Unnecessary extra step. Make it optional!
Ashley Magnum
TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS ITEM. HATE HATE HATE HATE THE DELETE OR REMOVE OR REPORT JUNK
GET RID of it or at least make it an option that we can select.
Fay Weinstein
I hate this new feature! If I want to delete something I should just be able to delete it!
Michael
Totally dislike this feature, don’t even know what will become of the ones I inadvertently reported as junk. Are they blocked forever? I don’t have an option to see ‘junk” messages.
Please give us an option to turn feature OFF.
Rosemarie
I hate this feature. We should be given an option to turn it off. It’s a waste of time.
Tom
Absolutely hate the Report Junk feature. Apple could easily fix this by changing the delete screen to display two options
Delete or
Delete and Report as Junk
Kris
Let me decide if I want to delete junk or report junk e-mail. Just another step that I do niot want to do. “Delete” this option. Waste of time.
Stephanie Rosehart
HATE THIS SETTING… such a waste of time! What happens if I report every delete :/ will that help make it a feature to turn off
Unhappy
This feature is a complete waste of time. So frustrated I’m actually thinking of Turing in my Apple phone for something else. Definitely don’t want to wait for the next update!
Tina
I cannot stand the extra report junk step in order to delete a text. I don’t see the point at all. More annoying than anything. Almost want to go back to the older version before I did the update.
Mike
Get rid of the “report as junk” when deleting a text.
Randy Zinck
The report junction isn’t a feature but it is a waste of time and Apple should at least give the user the option whether they want to use it or not. It is a step that I don’t want to have to take. If I wanted to block a sender I can do it, and this so called feature is an annoyance.
B
This feature is not only unneccessary, but it’s annoying. I keep accidentally hitting the report button on messages I just want to delete. Who needs an extra step in the already tedious task of deleting messages? People can so easily block numbers that send out spam text messages – this new feature is just not needed. They should at least give users an option to disable it. Thanks for posting the link to lodge a complaint with Apple – I did that and I hope other people do the same in droves.
David
I agree with LINDA TWOMEY, that now you have to make two clicks to erase a message. Bad enough the confirmation click is required.
Cyndie
HATE IT LOTS. Too easy to accidentally click JUNK when it isn’t. I know how to block calls or messages I do not want to receive. MAKE THIS GO AWAY.