This is one of the best iOS 16 features. The amount of spam/scam messages I receive have gone down a lot.688165135 t1_j29dm21 wrote
I received a consistent flow of spam right up until the end of the midterm elections. Coming from a Pixel, it surprised me to receive so much spam content right as a switched over to my first iPhone. I decided to check my auto-filtered messages on the old phone and, sure enough, all the election and random spam had already been removed from my inbox. It never asked for my attention once. I definitely miss that and the smart call screening as well.
nitroben2 t1_j29nvnj wrote
I miss the filtering methods from my Pixel as well. I have my iPhone set to filter unknown, but just yesterday that meant i missed a call and text from an old family friend who was in town for the day! I only saw the missed messages at the end of the day when i was clearing out my notification summary :(
GarikLoranFace t1_j29gmjg wrote
You can tell your iPhone to filter unknown callers. They’ll go to voicemail so if they’re important you can get them anyway
688165135 t1_j29lljn wrote
Yep, thanks for this tip. I had it turned on for a bit but ultimately wasn’t a fan of the shotgun approach. I missed calls I was expecting from companies/businesses I was trying to schedule appts with and it was kind of a hassle trying to call them back.
Maybe the solution is to turn filtering back on during election season! Haha.
CoasterFreak2601 t1_j2b4qcg wrote
Not sure who your carrier is, but T-Mobile offers spam block. They advertise it as a paid feature but there is a less granular option in the Scam Shield app that is probably sufficient for 99% of people that is free.
Other carriers might have similar apps.
essjay2009 t1_j2bcax4 wrote
I’ve set up an automation that looks for the string “http” in any message and if it detects it, asks if I want to report it as spam. This will only pick up spam that has links in it, but in my experience that’s 99% of them.
If I say yes, it forwards the message to my network’s spam reporting number, waits a few seconds, and then sends the offending number (this is the standard way of reporting it to my carrier, message first, then they reply saking you to send the number).
ElmoloKloIokakolo t1_j2bjtpo wrote
That’s great, could you share the shortcut or automation?
essjay2009 t1_j2dh1v9 wrote
Can’t share automatons unfortunately, only shortcuts, but the action bit looks like this
https://i.imgur.com/xWKBVG2.jpg
EE Spam is just a contact for my network’s spam reporting number.
And the trigger bit is just any message containing “http”. All in the Automations section in the shortcuts app.
https://i.imgur.com/XexqHUD.jpg
The whole thing together:
ElmoloKloIokakolo t1_j2e1zt0 wrote
Thank you so much for this! I will definitely do it on my phone, I receive a lot of spam containing links and it drives me insane
wuphf176489127 t1_j2agkjh wrote
Get WideProtect and create a text filter for SMS for words like "vote", "election", "campaign", "donation", etc. It made my midterms much nicer.
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