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I'm a semi-recent convert back to iPhone from Pixel. One thing I deeply miss is spam filtering of text messages.

This is a huge lacking feature in iPhone. You don't get these kind of low-interest texts on Pixel. Truly spammy texts get filtered to a spam folder. Political texts like this still exist, but they don't generate notifications.

Note that political messages are specifically exempt from anti-spam legislation in the US.

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Your experience is not universal. I get very few SPAM messages or calls on my iPhone.

Totally agree, the options that iOS gives you to attempt to control spam are basically either pathetic or non-existent. I get tons of spam calls from one country, presumably doing a "missed call" scam trying to get me to call back and pay crazy rates. I don't see any reason why implementing a "block everything from country code x" feature would not be completely trivial, and it would instantly solve the problem. Yet my stupid smartphone can't do it.

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