Political Messages in watch and not phone

iPhone 14 17.4.1 phone not lived or in sleep mode or any other mode and political messages (not notifications ) are showing on my watch and not phone. Help me stop this

Posted on Apr 10, 2024 09:13 AM

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Apr 10, 2024 10:24 AM in response to robinalexis

If you mean you are getting random text messages from political candidates, there is not much you can do except go into your iPhone, and block the phone number. However, they keep changing which phone number the candidate uses to send the messages, so you may still get them.


Or change your phone number, but often times political candidate SPAM lots of phone numbers, and political candidates are often the one exception to anti-spam laws (as the politicians often exclude themselves from these laws).

Apr 10, 2024 09:33 PM in response to robinalexis

They are generally sent to your phone number which you share with your iPhone.


if you block that phone number on your iPhone, the block will apply to your Apple Watch as well.


As I said before, politicians often exclude themselves from SPAM laws, so all you can do is locally block each source number as they arrive.


I was getting a lot of such messages on my Apple Watch when a former candidate was campaigning in a neighboring state. They stopped when the candidate dropped out of the race. However, I did block each number they used every time I go a text from that candidate.

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