Blocking words in iMessage
I know that Apple doesn't let us filter iMessages for keywords, but has anyone found an app that will? I keep getting messages for "Frederick" and would love to block any messages with that word.
iPhone 8 Plus
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I have not tried it but seems effective from its writeup
VeroSMS is a SMS Spam filter app focused on maintaining users privacy, it filters spam texts using keywords that you set and using crowdsourced data of keywords that other people in your region set.
This way none of the SMSs are sent to any server for analysis and your messages remain confidential.
# Free Features:
- Unlimited keywords for blacklisting.
- Unlimited keywords for whitelisting.
- Auto-block texts containing URLs from unknown people.
- Only blocks texts from people not in your contact list.
- SMS Spam Reporting to TRAI (India only).
# Premium Features:
- Machine learning based filtering.
- iCloud sync for any keywords you add.
- Auto-filtering of spam based on keywords that other people in your region add.
- Basically does all the work for you. Just unlock premium and forget, all crowdsourced keywords will be periodically updated in background.