Your phone comes with strong built-in spam protection—you just need to turn it on. Here's how to do it on both iPhone and ...

It's the holidays, so my phone is abuzz with messages. The problem is, most of the texts I'm receiving aren't from family and friends. Instead, I'm inundated with offers for tax prep assistance, back ...

The good folks over at Xbox are seemingly set to seriously crack down on swearing at other folks on Xbox Live. Via text chat, anyway. The company today announced a new set of message-filtering ...

The rise of technology and the frequent use of personal devices has resulted in the rise of one major annoyance: spam. It comes through as phone calls, emails, and, more recently, text messages. It is ...

With so much of our lives contained on our devices, especially our iPhones or iPads, it can feel particularly devastating if you accidentally delete a message you still need. Whether it is ...

Distracted by a notification bell, have you checked your iPhone only to find out that it's a useless promotional message? Have you received suspicious links in messages from unknown senders? If so, ...

Though checking your email inbox might be the least relaxing thing in the world, there is something particularly soothing about having separated filters in our inbox. It might be easy to take for ...

When iOS 26 is released in a few weeks, the software update will introduce several key new features to your iPhone’s Messages app. Some of the most exciting of these new features — including typing ...

Twitter is taking its screening of unknown direct messages a step further. The social media giant announced today that it is testing a filter for messages that contain offensive content. Messages ...

Reader Paul Lomauro is receiving email that he’d rather not. He writes: I am getting unsolicited mail from a source that has blank sender email address. How do I set up a new Mail rule on my iMac to ...