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iMessage is just about the only form of communication that I’ve NEVER received any spam through. I get spam SMS all the time and spam calls all the time. I get
by snailmailman 3y ago
iMessage is just about the only form of communication that I’ve NEVER received any spam through. I get spam SMS all the time and spam calls all the time. I get spam emails 24/7, and even spam DMs on any social media platform that has DMs.
There is no iMessage spam. Apple has it tightly controlled and locked down. I can kinda see why Apple wants to preserve their ecosystem.
But also, there are so many other options in this space. Signal, WhatsApp, etc. Apple is even finally adding RCS support. I don’t understand why so many people want iMessage on other platforms? It’s not that different.
- notyourwork 3y agoI agree, Apple has no interest in fighting spam from users onboarded by Beeper. That’s likely the biggest issue with this and more generally opening iMessage to wider audience.
- crazygringo 3y agoIt's not zero. I receive a few spam iMessages a year. But it's definitely orders of magnitude below SMS/calls.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>But it's definitely orders of magnitude below SMS/calls. SMS and call spam are big annoyances but can also be dealt with. On my Android, the Google messaging app is really good at stopping them. I doubt that Apple doesn't have the tech competency or the money to either build, license or acquire a really good spam filter. Heck, they can acquire every single spam filter company and start-up in the world and their money pile would barely dip.
- zappb 3y agoThe Messages app supports filtering extensions. I use a free one called Bouncer where I configured some regular expressions to auto-junk things, but there are far more sophisticated extensions available.
- dawnerd 3y agoI get iMessage spam all the time, Apple even has a report spam feature so it’s clearly an issue. I guess you’re just lucky but it definitely exists. I got four just in the last day even.
- unshavedyak 3y agoWonder what the cause is? I don’t think I’ve literally ever received a spam on iMessage
- dawnerd 3y agoFar as I can tell they’re all sent to my icloud address. Flip side I basically never get spam calls.
- MBCook 3y agoI think I’ve maybe gotten two in the entire history of owning an iPhone. I know people who have never gotten a single one, I know people who have gotten a bunch and hate it. Peoples experience seems to really vary.
- InvaderFizz 3y agoI get 1-2 per year. Usually from an iCloud address to my phone and a bunch of sequential numbers in my exchange.
- saurik 3y agoIt is conclusively trivial to automate the iMessage client using accessibility APIs and in fact this has been done many times before to great effect by numerous developers to implement everything from auto responders to bridges for iMessage from other systems... including by Beeper for prior versions of their product! And like, hell: you mention "social media platforms", but they also have been known to put in lots of effort at times to break alternative clients... Meta, in particular, sometimes goes to lengths sufficiently annoying that a ton of real users using browser extensions on Instagram/Facebook get caught in the cross-fire. If you want to send spam over iMessage, the thing preventing that is categorically--and, frankly, obviously to anyone who is willing to question Apple's PR spin--not (and never was) the inability to use it from a device running Android or anything about the inscrutability of its protocol being documented and re-implemented by others.
- realusername 3y agoIt does have spam, there's nothing preventing scammers to buy boxes of old half broken phones and turning them into relays and that's exactly what they are doing.
- gnicholas 3y ago> There is no iMessage spam There actually is — I get it regularly, despite keeping my phone number relatively private.
- superb_dev 3y agoI’ve had the same experience, never had any spam through iMessage. It certainly happens, but it’s pretty rare and doesn’t happen to everyone