I'm not sure if they are iMessages or not because I never respond to them to see how the text goes through. Seems easy enough to program in an update since you’ve already done it for phone calls. Would love to see an option to SILENCE ALL UNKNOWN SENDER texts. Both are capitalizing on the business of spamming people). (Also the idea that people are making money to block the texts, is just as bad as the spam text itself. And from what I’ve seen, the paid 3rd party apps block unknown numbers completely, which isn’t a solution since there are times when a legitimate unknown number is trying to reach you. Similar to Ingrid331, I spent a lot of time reporting the messages to ATT, but it’s futile since they simply keep coming. You can see in my screenshot the same spam text comes from a new number every time. Again, blocking an individual number doesn’t stop robotexts that rotate thousands of phone numbers. can you show us where that is? However, I imagine this still wouldn’t solve the issue at hand, since the messages always come from a different number. I’ve never seen a “report as junk” function in messages. Yes the filter is on, hence me starting this thread :), but the functionality is a bit useless if it doesn’t have the option to silence the notifications in the unknown sender list. I understand the color coating of blue vs green but those colors only appear on MY messages, not the sender’s, and I’m not responding to the messages in order to find out. The top of the spam message says “text message” so I’m guessing that means it’s SMS. Thanks for the reply, sounds like Ingrid331 and I are getting the same exact spam messages. Q: Silence message notifications from unknown senders So, Apple, not working with iMessages either!Įven with the unknown callers the phone still rings! So, I guess in my case it’s Murphy’s Law! Oh, I have never replied to her either, so I don’t think it is because iMessages recognized i replied back. Still, her texts, I see them pop up on my locked screen as if I had her number saved. I do not block her, because you never know if she might need my help someday. I have a neighbor that keeps sending messages that I ignore due to being political in nature and I do not appreciate it. Oh!!! By the way! I still do get alerted when an iPhone user/ unknown sender sends me a text. Honestly, the unknown senders filter, makes no sense! Even if you have the filter, sometimes you open iMessages and all pop up, doesn’t matter that you chose to keep known senders as your option.

Most of these scammers probably know this and will find a way to block what type of phone they use. The fact that it is only for iMessages serves no purpose. For what?! To have that same message come back from a different number hours later! So, I do, I do feel your pain!!!! I have to go through forwarding the text, then sending the number I received it from. And funny thing, lately these are rotating (non-stop!): last day to get a gun permit thank you for your loyalty and making your last payments on time AT&T giving away old iPads to make room for the 2021 inventory and the one that promises you’ll go down from XXL to M SharkTank’s belly burning fat product! It’s beyond frustrating. Does it make a difference? Heck no! I still get bombarded with these texts day and night.

So, according to them, they are trying to do something. I am going to try to attach some screenshots. I have AT&T ( I read all companies have this), and I forward the text and number to them which I believe goes directly to FCC. It seems as they have been increasing in frequency lately and yes, I get the same message 3 or 4 times (at least!) from different numbers too! I have received texts messages in the middle of the night too! Once it was around 3:30am and scared the crap out of me as I have a kid away in school. Hi! I am here for the same exact reason! Looking on why there’s a filter and still you get the alerts! In case you don’t get alerted about replies to her post:

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