Guys & Girls,
Ever since I donated to a political party, I have been receiving unsolicited messages on my iPhone account. Sometimes as many has 20 a day. Is there a way to configure settings to only accept messages from those addresses in my Contacts application?
Thanks, Phil
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Original Title: Unsolicited Messages
Mac Studio, macOS 15.5
I found entering STOP, or Stop, or Stop2End or whatever is indicated (exactly) at the end does stop only from that candidate, but somewhere there is a master list that gets handed out to new politicians and causes. So they never completely go away.
I submitted a bug report
asking that these messages from non-contacts appear only in the Unknown Senders and not also in my known senders box. I thought only known senders appeared in that box, but that is not what happens, the unknowns are in both places which is not nice and which makes it harder to ignore the Unknowns.
I would not expect any opt-out functions to work, and would expect using those would draw more spam.
Apple provides a means to mute unknown senders, but not block them.
While Apple has announced some enhancements for iOS 26, some local folks are having success with the junk filtering provided by the Bouncer app.
How to block unsolicited messages from non-contacts on iPhone?
