The text messages they have evolved from a means of communication to a channel for receiving order confirmations, two-factor authentication codes and advertising. Google is trying to revive them and dethrone WhatsApp and the company with its RCS messaging feature, but things don’t seem to be progressing at the moment.
And speaking of these promotional messages, the same channel is also used to send us false information, such as SMS posing as a courier company, tax agency, or the bank used for everyday transactions.
Something that also happens with calls, by the way, when telemarketing companies decide that they will not let these potential victims of scams rest no matter how hard they try. But there is a way to avoid this, or minimize it. TechSmart will show how to block SPAM messages in Android Y iPhone.
This is how you can end SPAM messages on an iPhone
It will start with the process to avoid SPAM messages that are received on an iPhone. This process was greatly simplified when Manzana He launched iOS 13as the SPAM message blocking function appeared in this version of the system. A similar system that filters all messages that arrive from phone numbers that are not in the contacts.
In other words, if a number is added to your contacts, it means that the person is known. Or at least, that this user user is allowed to write without any problem. So the SPAM blocking system in iOS 13 and later goes through tell the system to apply this filter, and the process is quite simple:
1. Enter the ‘settings’ of the system.
2. Locate the app ‘Messages’.
3. Activate ‘Filter strangers’.
Any SMS that is received from a number that is not in the contacts it will be stored in the corresponding spam folder.
It also can block messages from a known sender that you don’t want to remove from contacts. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Open the message of who is bothering.
2. Click on ‘Report as spam’.
3. Click on ‘Delete and report as spam’.
This is how you can end SPAM messages on an Android
You’ve reached Android territory and here things get a bit complicated because while Google’s Messages app is usually the default app for managing SMS messages, there are other apps that can be installed and replace the first app. Or you may even have a phone that doesn’t have Messages installed.
So let’s start with by enable Google Messages to deal with SPAM, even though the app itself already has a filter built in to do a decent amount of work. It is similar to the case of the iPhone, except that in Google messages this option is enabled by default, so the application itself warns with each SMS that it could be SPAM if the contact did not have it in the agenda.
If it is not activated yet, follow these steps:
1. Open the Messages app.
2. Click on the three vertical dots.
3. Click on ‘Spam and blocked’.
4. Activate ‘Enable SPAM protection’.
In the event that the Google application is not used by choice, or because it is not installed, TechSmart leaves 2 applications whose function is precisely to filter the appearance of SPAM text messages in the system and block everything that is garbage or contains information:
Key Messages
The first recommended app is Key Messages. With this application it is possible to integrate an automatic security filter into the system which will handle SPAM and also has a blacklist that can be created with each number managing to pass the filters.
Call and SMS blocker
Another highly recommended app that will not only take care of filtering SPAM messages but will do the same with calls.
In the same way as in ‘Key Messages’, in ‘Call and SMS Blocker’ there is also automatic filtering and the possibility of creating your own list of blocked numbers.