Silencing spam group messages

ScubaSoprano wrote:

Well, I need to be notified when I receive my actual messages!

No you mute that particular thread not your entire message.

open the message - at the very top click - info - hide alerts - on

ScubaSoprano wrote:

I’ve been receiving spam group messages of a sexual nature from both phone numbers and email addresses. After the original spam message, then I receive dozens of replies from the other numbers profanely telling the spammer to 🤬. I have turned on the “filter unknown messages”, and it puts them in another folder, but I still get the ding and the notifications on my main screen, complete with obscene language my boss, coworkers, or children could see. I understand that Apple is not able to stop these because they are SMS, but why can’t you turn off the dings and the notifications for them? I could at least live with that. I only want to be notified of texts from my contacts.

And yes, I mute the messages and block the callers, but it does nothing to alleviate this aggravation. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.

Mute message as in hide alerts, so you're not notified when message comes in?