On the afternoon of December 24, digital blogger @Bruka complained that Apple's smart home platform HomeKit had actually become the entrance to others to send harassing information, and he could not block it. This is another app that Apple has fallen after Apple Calendar, Photo Album, iMessage and other apps.
Foreign App developers seem to pay special attention to the sharing function, especially data sharing between family and colleagues, as long as they know the other party's registered Apple ID and iCloud email, they can invite others. Apple's original intention is to facilitate our daily life and work, take calendar sharing, share his schedule with colleagues who have the same needs, he does not need to set up additional settings.
However, Apple's sharing features are always taken advantage of by people with different intentions, who can send invitations to random mailboxes indefinitely, and users who sign up for Apple ID and iCloud will receive these invitations. In 2016, netizens reported in the Apple community that they had received a calendar harassment invitation and had to respond, because Apple only provided three options: accept, possible, and reject. If you simply ignore it, there will be a reminder of a small red dot on the app.
The user is worried that after responding, even if it is rejected, the other party can know that he has operated, is a living person, and will continue to send harassing messages to himself. It's like a lot of harassing text messages will end with a "reply to TD unsubscribe", once you really reply to TD, they will know that your mobile phone number is really used, and will continue to send you harassing text messages.
Therefore, the best way to deal with this kind of harassing information is to leave it alone. If you don't use the mailbox sharing function often, you can turn off the cloud synchronization function of these apps directly to Settings-iCloud, although we will still receive email invitations, but we will not see notifications, and the app will no longer have annoying corner marks and small red dots.
Many iPhone users are reluctant to change brands, the main reason is that they are used to the ecology of iOS. Compared to Android, the iOS ecosystem does perform better, but there are still many things that are not considered in some details and small features. Take this email invitation, for example, so far Apple has not provided a shortcut ignore button.
I hope that Apple can pay attention to these problems, understand the needs and pain points of users, improve them in time, and stop these self-brought apps that should be convenient for users to become a harassing entrance to spam information.