iOS 16 wants to get rid of spam text messages
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What you need to know iOS 16 adds a new way to report spam text messages as junk. Users will be able to report SMS and MMS messages as junk with select carriers in the United States. Let us all unite in the destruction of spam text messages. Whether you have an iPhone or Android phone, we can all agree on something: spam text messages suck and they should go away forever. Thankfully, Apple wants to do something about it. In the release notes for the second developer beta of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, the company has revealed that it is adding a new feature that will allow users to mark an incoming text message as spam. Per the below notes, users will be able to report an SMS or MMS message as junk. According to Apple, the feature will start out with select carriers in the United States but no specific carriers were announced. Allows developers to classify incoming SMS from unknown numbers into 12 new sub-categories within Transaction and Promotion categories for improved organi...