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		rezonant on Dec 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access Yes. I believe people are just saying that they assume unknown-contact SMS is spam and that sort of sounds like Apple's SMS spam filtering isn't very good.

dwaite on Dec 9, 2023 [–]

For iPhone there are two tiers - the carrier provided SMS spam filtering, and apps written to provide such filtering[1].

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sms_and_call_repor...

rezonant on Dec 9, 2023 | [–]

Oh, so there's no builtin message filtering at all??

This explains some things. Why wouldn't they just add a spam filter. Is there still iCloud email addresses? Do they have spam filtering?

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