jawtheshark's Journal: iMess with your messages

iMess with your messages

I feel your pain

[MonTemplar]

I've been fortunate so far - I don't have any fellow iPhone users that I regularly communicate with via said device. I've now turned off iMessage, so hopefully all texts should go out as SMS.

My personal bugbear with my iPhone is the number of steps required to block a number from Messages. As I use my mobile number as a contact for business, my number is public, and as a result I've started getting SMS spam and telemarketer calls. You would think that Apple, of all people, would make it easier to tell the i

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[jawtheshark]

In my investigations, I found such a feature, burried somewhere in the options. I never had the need. My number is public too, well, it's pretty much a Google away. Never get any SMS spam.

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[MonTemplar]

Consider yourself lucky, then - SMS spam seems to be pretty common here in the UK. Even my parents occasionally get hit.

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[jawtheshark]

I occasionally get a scam SMS, but those seem to be sent by a robot as usually I have heard of it even before I get it.

But, yeah, I'm probably lucky ;-)