I've recently deleted contact details of a friend. Will this stop them from sending me an iMessage on my Mac? My iMessage is set up with my email address, not a phone number.
Mac – Receiving iMessages from a deleted contact
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Go to settings on the iPhone. Go to the 'Messages' settings. And select Receive At.
See what it says there. It should be your phone number not Apple ID or email.
If you have a Apple email listed. You can remove it by.
Clicking the 'Apple ID youremail@me.com'
You will get a popup which lets sign out thus removing the mac email address.
This is the same set of steps you would use if you had a sim card, it's more about clearing the account that device has registered with the iMessage service.
Try to turn off iMessage completely, totally log out of the system in Settings > Messages. When you re-enable it, ensure you log in with your own Apple ID. At this point, you should be able to message to your registered email address.
If that doesn't work, you may need to back everything up and restore the device. This is somewhat problematic without a SIM card, since you may get stuck at activation if you don't at least have an inactive SIM from the proper carrier.
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Best Answer
In short, no. If you want someone to stop sending you iMessages, you have to explicitly block them.
To block someone, open the Messages app, Go to Preferences, Accounts, and click on the Blocked tab. Hit the plus sign to add someone to the list.
This only blocks iMessages and won't block normal text messages (if you have an iPhone and it's set up to do handoff to your Mac).