[reaperducer]

On most (all?) carriers, you can forward spam SMS messages to 7726 ("spam" on the keypad) to report messages as spam.

I wonder if that's what the iPhone's "Report Junk" button does with text messages.

For some reasons, my iPhones on AT&T always offer the option to report a text message as spam, but my iPhones on Verizon do not. Another curiosity.

[aendruk]

Tell me more about this report button! I’ve long wished for such a feature but thought it didn’t exist. This is something built in to iOS?

[troydavis]

"Report Junk" was originally added for iMessage (with reports going to Apple, I assume). iOS 16 expanded the feature to support reporting SMS/MMS "Depending on your carrier and country or region": https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-filter-and-repo... (scroll to "Report spam or junk messages").

"In the list of messages, touch and hold the spam message, then tap Report Junk. Or, if you’ve opened the message, scroll to the bottom of the message, tap Report Junk, then tap Delete and Report Junk."

I've read that "Report Junk" does the equivalent of forwarding to 7726, but I don't have a way to verify that (more: https://www.bandwidth.com/blog/apples-ios-16-update-and-what...).

[aendruk]

Thanks, not available with Google Fi evidently.