Block Spam Texts | Dont Text vs TextSieve

Block. Spam. Texts. Dont Text creates a junk folder in your messages app and sends spam texts to the junk folder for you. With Dont Text installed and enabled on your device, you never get notifications from annoying spam texts and spam is automatically sent to your junk folder. Dont Text makes it easy for you to block spam texts on your device by getting started it in minutes. Block Spam Texts from Email Addresses Start blocking all spam text messages that come from email addresses. Turn on the toggle to Filter Email Senders in the app and Dont Text will block all incoming spam texts from email addresses. Customize Filtering Dont Text allows you to customize how you block spam texts. Inside the app, you can create keywords to filter text messages from unknown senders. Create a blocking keyword to filter any text containing that keyword and send the text to junk. Use allow keywords to prevent important texts from accidentally ending up in junk and make sure you never miss an important text. Block Texts By Phone Number Area Code Block unwanted texts by filtering by area code. Add an area code to the app and all texts from that area code will be sent to your junk folder. Privacy Dont Text does not save your contacts or texts. Dont Text only checks text messages from unknown senders to filter spam. Dont Text cannot access text messages between you and your contacts, or any texts that you send. Dont Text can only check incoming messages from a number not saved in your contacts and this information is never stored. When a text is filtered, Apple restricts the information Dont Text uses to block spam and your phone number or personal information is never shared with us.

TextSieve helps you filter spam, scam, and unwanted text messages with private, customizable rules that run on your iPhone. Your messages stay on your device. TextSieve does not collect personal information, does not upload SMS content, does not require an account, does not show ads, and does not use advertising or tracking SDKs. Built for common U.S. text spam and scam patterns, TextSieve includes local rules for package delivery scams, unpaid toll notices, bank phishing alerts, verification-code phishing, utility shutoff scams, suspicious links, investment scams, adult spam, political texts, and marketing messages. Customize your protection: - Turn filtering categories on or off - Add trusted senders to an allow list - Block unwanted senders - Add keywords that should always be allowed - Add keywords that should be filtered - Test sample messages locally before changing your setup - Import and export your rules as a local JSON backup - Reset to the built-in rule set at any time TextSieve is designed for people who want control without giving up privacy. Rules are stored locally, filtering happens locally, and your message content is not sent to a server. To enable SMS filtering, install TextSieve, then open iPhone Settings > Apps > Messages > Unknown & Spam. Turn on Filter Unknown Senders and select TextSieve as your SMS filter. Filtering depends on your rules and iOS message filtering behavior. Always review important messages carefully before taking action.