How to keep politicians from flooding your iPhone with campaign texts

Apple Insider27 Oct 2026, 04:02 PKTvia NewsData.io

Political campaign texts are relentless ahead of Election Day, with fundraising appeals piling up in Messages. One iPhone setting can silence their alerts without forcing you to block each unfamiliar number. Political texts plague everyone Blocking a number doesn't help much when the next fundraising appeal arrives from a different one. Political fundraising groups even raised objections when Apple expanded message filtering in iOS 26, concerned that donation requests would go unnoticed. Apple's Screen Unknown Senders feature separates messages based on whether you've established contact with

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