How to block email on iPhone: You just can’t take it anymore: your iPhone keeps ringing continuously due to the many e-mail messages received, most of which are absolutely useless to you. Intending to put a stop to this situation, you tried to block emails on the iPhone by “fumbling” in the smartphone settings, but unfortunately you were unable to achieve your goal. You have therefore thought of carrying out a short search on Google, in order to shed light on the matter, and you have ended up among the pages of my site.
Well, know that you are exactly where you should be! In fact, below I will explain to you in detail how to block emails on iPhone in various cases: first of all, we will see together how to block emails from unwelcome senders; secondly, we will see how to disable notifications for email apps, so as to minimize distractions; finally, I will provide you with the necessary instructions to completely inhibit access to the apps by email (useful scenario in case you have to temporarily lend the phone to relatives, friends or acquaintances).
So, without lingering a moment longer, make yourself comfortable and read very carefully everything I have to explain to you on the subject: I am sure that, at the end of this reading, you will be perfectly able to act in the most appropriate way for who they are. your needs. Having said that, I just have to wish you good reading and wish you a big good luck for everything!
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How to block unwanted email on iPhone
Blocking unwanted emails on iPhone is not difficult: you just need to know what to do depending on the service you use! Generally speaking, it is sufficient to block the sender using the mail application in use, or to set custom filters (so as to “hijack” the messages received from a specific address directly to the trash can) by acting via the Web. I provide more in-depth information regarding Gmail , Outlook and iCloud services .
Mail/iCloud
Do you manage your email via Mail for iOS ? Then, regardless of the email provider you use, you can quickly move messages received from unwanted senders into Junk .
How? I’ll explain it to you right away. First, launch the Mail app (the envelope icon) and tap an email from the user you want to block. When the message is opened, click on the flag -shaped icon located at the bottom left, touch the item Move to Junk from the menu that is proposed to you and you’re done!
As for messages from mailing lists, you can use another great feature of Mail: once you have selected the email in question, you should see a banner appear containing a notice of membership in a mailing list . To try to deactivate it, you can click on the Remove address link corresponding to it and confirm your willingness to proceed by pressing the button of the same name that is shown immediately after.
Unfortunately, this technique does not guarantee 100% success, since the removal message automatically generated (and subsequently sent to the appropriate address), may not be handled correctly.
If you use iCloud as your email provider and want to have email from unwanted senders immediately moved to the trash, you need to act from the official website of the service, from your computer. After visiting the iCloud Mail site and logging into the service, press the [>] button located on the left, under the heading iCloud Mail .
Once this is done, click on the ⚙ button located at the bottom left to access the quick action menu , then click on the Rules … item located in it. Once the new screen is open, click on the link Add a rule… , set the top drop-down menu on the item Comes from and specify the email address to be blocked in the text field located immediately below.
Finally, set the next drop-down menu on Move to trash , or Move to trash and mark as read , and activate the new rule by pressing the Save button . In case of second thoughts, you can quickly delete the rules thus set by pressing the corresponding button (s) and clicking on the Delete button that appears on the screen.
Gmail
If you manage email through the Gmail app for iPhone , blocking messages received from a particular sender is extremely simple!
First, start the application and tap on any message received from an unwelcome user; then, locate the button (…) located next to the sender’s name (usually, it is to the right of the reply button ), press it and press the Block [sender name] item located in the proposed menu and that’s it! From now on, messages from the blocked sender will automatically be moved to the Spam folder .
In some cases, you can use an even simpler method to block messages received from a newsletter: open one of the emails in question, look for the item Unsubscribe located at the top and answer affirmatively to the warning window that is shown to you. This way, you should no longer receive messages from the service in question.
Alternatively, you can block the receipt of emails from a sender by setting upstream filters , ie “rules” that allow you to move the messages in question directly to the Trash (or spam folder). To do this, however, you will have to act through the Web version of Gmail for desktop systems.
How? I’ll explain it to you right away: first of all, start Safari (or any other browser you like), connect to the page https://mail.google.com and, if necessary, log in to Google by typing your credentials. Once this is done, press the ☰ button located at the top left, scroll down the page that is shown to you and presses the Desktop link located at the wording View Gmail in .
At this point, to start creating your new rule, tap the Create a filter link : once the new page is loaded, enter the email address of the user you dislike in the From field, press the Next step button and then put the check mark next to the Delete box . Finally, decide whether to apply the filter also to already existing conversations and press the Create filter button to make it operational. That’s all!
In case of second thoughts, you can delete the filters set in an equally simple way: after logging in to Gmail for Desktop as seen above, tap on the Settings link and then on the Filters tab ; therefore, identify the filter you want to delete (thus unblocking the sender) and tap the Delete button corresponding to it. As easily understood, you can also perform the same operations from your PC, by accessing the Gmail site.
Outlook
Unlike what has already been seen for Gmail, the Outlook app does not provide a quick method to block all emails received from a specific sender: to proceed in this sense, you must necessarily operate from the desktop version of the service website, to which you can access through Safari for iPhone or through any computer browser.
If you intend to act directly on the iPhone, connect to the outlook.com web page and access your e-mail box, by entering the relevant information in the login form (if required); once your mailbox is displayed, click on the Safari sharing button, located at the bottom (the square with the up arrow ), and select the item Request desktop site present among the proposed options. If you intend to act via computer, you simply need to connect to the Outlook website and log in by entering the credentials of your e-mail account.
At this point, the steps are identical: using the left side of the screen, open one of the e-mail messages received from the sender you do not like. Once the message has been uploaded, touch the Junk mail item located at the top of the page, select the Block item from the proposed menu and press the OK button to block the sender of the email: starting from this moment, you will no longer see the emails coming by the user in question.
If you are working on your computer, you can also quickly create a rule to move the emails received from a given sender to another folder (e.g. the Recycle Bin ): after opening one of the emails received by the user in question, click on the button (…) located next to your address, select the Create rule item from the proposed menu and indicate, in the appropriate drop-down menu attached to the window that opens on the screen, the folder in which to “divert” the messages received from the sender in question . When you are done, confirm the creation of the rule by pressing the OK button and you’re done.
How to block email notifications on iPhone
If e-mail is a distraction for you while at work, you can easily fix it by blocking the notifications of the related apps, through the iPhone settings menu: in this way, until you reactivate them, you will no longer be distracted by the related notifications. to new messages received.
Succeeding is extremely simple: first, access the iPhone Settings by touching the gear icon located on the Home screen of the device, then locate the email app for which you intend to silence notifications in the proposed list and do tap on his name; to conclude, tap the Notifications item and set the Allow notifications switch to OFF . Repeat the operation for all the e-mail apps installed on the “iPhone by”.
When you deem it appropriate to activate notifications again, you can go to the Settings> [mail app]> Notifications section and move the Allow Notifications toggle to ON . If you want to turn off notifications only at certain times, however, you can take advantage of the Do Not Disturb function , always accessible from the iOS Settings menu (I talked about it in depth in various tutorials, such as the one on how to exclude calls on iPhone).
How to block email apps on iPhone
How do you say? Do you want to block all email apps you have installed on iPhone and inhibit access to them? In this case, I recommend that you use the Screen Time feature introduced by Apple in iOS 12 , which allows you to limit the time you use apps by blocking access with a PIN.
To proceed, open the iPhone Settings , press the Usage time item and Activate the “Usage time” option , then press the Continue and It’s my iPhone buttons and tap the Use code “Usage time” to then specify the PIN with which to block access to the apps to be limited (just follow the instructions shown on the screen).
Once the PIN has been set, touch the App Limitations item , enter the code specified above and press the Add usage limitation item : after this, put the check mark next to the Productivity item , press the Add button and set the timer shown then on 0 hours and 1 min (the minimum possible).
From now on, the icons of the apps involved in the block will be identified by an hourglass : as a last step, start one of the applications you have decided to block and wait a minute for the iOS block to work.
Note : the Productivity group also includes apps other than those dedicated to emails (such as Calculator, Calendar, Notes, Reminders and so on); if you want to allow access to some of the apps included in the blocked group, keeping the block for apps dedicated to emails, go to Settings> Usage time> Always allowed and select them by pressing the (+) button next to each of them.
In case of second thoughts, you can cancel the block by going to Settings> Usage time> App limitations> Productivity and pressing the Delete limitation button .
If you are using an iOS version below 12 , you can set blocks on apps only based on their target age: to do this, go to Settings> General> Restrictions , tap on Enable restrictions and type a PIN twice . 4 digits to protect settings.
At this point, touch the App item attached to the restrictions menu and put the check mark next to the type of app you want to allow: 4+, 9+, 12+ or 17+ , or next to the item Do not allow apps to hide everything you’ve downloaded from the App Store.
Unfortunately, however, this method may not always be efficient: most e-mail applications have an age rating of 4+ , therefore, they cannot be blocked with the procedure described above. Also, such a restriction would still allow the Mail app to run, as it is a system app not downloaded from the App Store.