What is the story
Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 26, comes with a new feature to solve the problem of spam messages. A report of 9TO5MAC revealed that the beta version of iOS 26 offers an option to silence the texts from unknown numbers and filter them in a separate section in the messages application.
User control
How does new feature work
The messages on iOS 26 will invite users if they want the new screening feature to filter texts identified as potential spam. Once the feature is activated, users will not receive notifications on these potential spam texts. Instead, they will be hidden in a section of spam dedicated in the application. However, users can always access these texts by going to the filtering tool in the upper right corner of the messages application and by tilting between different types of texts.
Organization of applications
How the messages app is now organized
The messages on iOS 26 now offers four separate sections: messages, unknown, spam seiders and recently deleted. Even if users do not obtain notifications for potential spam texts, a visual prompt will appear on the filter button when there is a new text that they might want to check. In this way, users can choose to read a text from an unknown sender or ignore it completely.
