iOS 26: Message app with a better spam filter

Spam via iMessage is a general problem: it costs almost nothing for the senders and some users consider the “blue” messages to be more trustworthy in Apple The green colored SMS (and recently RCS messages). Apple allows it to filter unknown transmittersReport scrap messages and to block their senders. But the technology works very rudimentarily – and many users don’t know them. With iOS 26 there should now be a number of improvements. Apple plans a so-called screening of iMessage messages so that they may not even appear.

Filter and anti-spam function

If messages will be detected as a possible spam in the future, they can be hidden when the screening function is activated. That means: there is no notification and the messages end up in a separate section of the app that you have to call first. To this end, Apple has integrated a new filter function.

In the future there will be four different types of notifications: normal messages, those from unknown senders, possible spam and messages that have recently been deleted. Appropriate checkers can be pressed on the start screen of the message app. How well Apple’s in-house spam filter works cannot yet be said. Usually one can strike in two directions if it works less well: either it filter too little or too much. It is well resolved that the filter button shows an animation when a message has been filtered away-so you will be attentive if necessary without it without it.

Also telephone calls screening

Another anti-spam function concerns telephone calls in iOS 26. In the future, it will be possible to accept AI-controlled calls of unknown numbers. The system called Call screening Then ask the caller who he is and what it is about and reflects the information on the screen using speech recognition. So you can decide whether you want to lose weight.

From the beginning, Call Screening should not only work in English, but also in German, French, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and various other languages.