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iMessage is next to useless for me due to SMS spam from political fundraising groups that send texts from so many different numbers that manually blocking each phone number is practically impossible.

I want an app that will prowl my pool of SMS texts on my phone every couple of minutes and delete every SMS text that matches a regexp I give it, without sending all of my texts off-device.

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I use TextKiller on iPhone to do that, but it might be sending all my unknown sender texts to them for analysis. The iPhone framework won’t allow a text filtering app access to all your texts, just Unknown Senders. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sms_and_call_repor...

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any solution for MMS image spam from politicians that follows the same pattern of fake numbers and not honoring a “STOP” response.

Stop donating to political entities and giving them your number.

I made the mistake of giving my real phone number to an organization giving a relative an award 8 years ago. (Had to buy tickets) I still get SMS spam as a result.

That isn't sufficient. I have never done that, yet I still receive the texts (oddly, they usually address my sister, and sometimes my mother). It's my understanding that voter registration lists in the US are public.

If you select a party affiliation when you register, There Will Be Spam.

Your family probably fell for some sort of scam where their contacts were skimmed.

Voter registration lists are public, your phone number is not.

I get texts from Trumpsters because I worked at a place with a public sector union and some ass gave the GAL to a anti-union group, which subsequently sold it to some other groups.

I had the same problem until I discovered the “Filter Unknown Senders” setting that appears about 80% of the way down the settings screen.

That doesn't block them though, you'll still receive their messages.

Time to switch to Android, we have all sorts of productive stuff like that.

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