How to stop spam iMessages but not SMS?

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In the last few days I have a received a number of spam iMessages.

Since iMessage is also used for SMS (Text Messages), how can I set up iMessage

to receive only from my contacts, while leaving SMS open to everybody?

Basically, I DO want to receive SMS from everybody on my iPhone,

but I do not want to receive SPAM iMessages on my iPhone, iPads and Mac

with the result that I have to delete every SPAM iMessage 4 times (once on each device)

Can it be done?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), iPhone4S, iPad3

Posted on Aug 22, 2014 5:47 AM

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Answer 2

Level 2

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Thanks for your answer.

But what I am looking for is to be able to receive iMessages only from contacts.

Basically I want to BLOCK by default everyone who is not in my contact list.

But I do want to receive SMS from everybody.

Maybe this is a feature that Apple needs to yet implement for iMessage and FaceTime, i.e. "receive from Contacts only"?

Regards

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Answer 3

Not sure why you would like to receive spam via SMS and not iMessage, however, but to each his own.

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Answer 4

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It may sound weird but the reason is that Spam SMS would appear just on my iPhone, and I can handle that.

And I don't want to run into a situation where someone cannot SMS me.

iMessages, on the other hand appear on all my devices, and I want to receive imessages from friends only.

Regards

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