How to block annoying text messages on iPhone

MUMET TECHNO on

09 September 2021

How to block text messages on iPhone - Obviously spamming us is very annoying. Fortunately, it is possible to block text messages on iPhone and it is not something that is too complicated to achieve. In this article we will take a detailed look at all the options we have to permanently forget spam messages.

How To Block numbers that send us spam on iPhone

This method can also be used to block text messages from other contacts. You can block messages from friends, family members, etc. It's not just limited to spammers.

We will open the number of the sender who sent us the message, for this we open a conversation and we have to press the number or name of the sender, a small menu will be displayed and we have to press the "Info" button.

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Now we have to click on "Info" again and then at the bottom we will find "Block this person" in red.
This method is ideal when we receive too many spam SMS from the same phone number. This way, by simply blocking the sender, we will no longer receive any spam messages or calls from him.

How To Filter spam messages on iOS

The problem with spammers is that they generally don't use a single phone number. Therefore, we should continue to filter messages, this way we can try to prevent SMS from reaching us even if our number is not blocked. 

We have to go to Settings > Messages > Unknown and Spam.

Here we have to enable the option "Filter unknown senders". This option is for iPhone to save all messages from unknown senders in a separate list.

How To Use third party apps to filter spam SMS

We may also use third-party applications to filter spam messages. One of the best is Truecaller, available from the Apple Store. With this app we can avoid junk messages and forget the problem.

We will go to Settings > Messages > Unknown and Spam like we did before. We made sure to enable the Unknown Senders Filter option.

After this, instead of putting "SMS Filter" we have to select "Truecaller".

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And that's basically it. In this simple way we can block text messages on iPhone. We've focused the article on spam messages, but this method can be used to filter messages from contacts you have on your phone.

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