When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

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The change? A new “aggressive message filtering” feature, according to the NRSC memo, that Apple is introducing in iOS 26’s Messages app, which handles both iMessages and regular SMS text messages.

When these features are enabled, those messages will be filtered to their own folder in Messages without altering you. Once these messages are in their respective folders, you can look through them at ...