Android does a great job of handling incoming spam SMS messages. But there are two things you may find you have to do manually. The first is to remove spam SMS messages. Given the constant flood of spam arriving in our various inboxes, those messages may be on the rise. You definitely don’t want to allow your device to be filled with blocking spam messages.
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The second thing you may need to do is add the blocked numbers manually. Android does a pretty good job of catching and blocking spam numbers, but it’s not 100% every time.
So, how do you delete those messages and add new blocked numbers? Let me show you how.
what you’ll need
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The first thing you’ll need is a device running Android. It should run at least Android 10, but Android 11 would be better. You also need to collect some spam SMS messages. If you haven’t received that first spam message yet, consider yourself lucky and catalog this information for that inevitable day when the flood of spam starts arriving.
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The first thing we will do is delete some of the spam SMS messages that we have collected. It’s a very simple process, but can be tedious (since there’s still no option to select all—Google, are you listening?).
To delete your spam messages, open the Messages app. From the main window, tap the Menu button and then tap ‘Spam & Blocking’.
In the Spam & Blocked window, you have to manually tap each message you want to delete.
The trick to selecting messages is that you have to first long press on one message to select it. Once you’ve selected that first message, you can go through the list and single-tap each one to select. After selecting all the messages to be deleted, tap the trash can at the top right to delete the messages.
After tapping on the Trashcan, you will be asked to confirm the deletion. Tap Delete, and the messages will disappear from the Spam and Blocked folders of your messages.
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How to manually add a phone number to spam and blocked
Now, we will manually add a new phone number to the Spam and Blocked list. From the same screen, tap the Menu button and then tap Blocked Contacts. In the resulting window, tap Add a number.
Type the number you want to add and tap Block.
And that’s all; You have just added a new number to the Android Messages blocked numbers list. You will never have to worry about receiving SMS messages from that number again.
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