Message Filtering

[C DM]

Does the new/updated "Filter Unknown Senders" option for Messages work for anyone in the sense of not just filtering messages in the Messages app, but also in terms of suppressing notifications for those messages from unknown senders?

I was under the impression that silencing notifications is part of what it was supposed to do, or at least should do (for example, going by how the similar unknown caller feature works).

 

[ghostface147]

I notice that if I stay in the known senders section, I don’t get unknown senders messages. That also includes authentication texts from a bank or something. If I’m in all senders, then I get the messages.

 

[BigMcGuire]

I still got notifications. But I usually stay in the All Senders sorting. iOS 14 has screwed this up for me in a way... now, when I get an unknown text message, click on it, then back out to see my text messages, I'm in the unknown senders filter... I have to hit back again to go to all messages.

I have sound off and I don't get a buzz notification but I see the message notification in the dropdown when I open my iPhone.

It is not consistent. (Could be my ignorance as well).

 

[C DM]

I notice that if I stay in the known senders section, I don’t get unknown senders messages. That also includes authentication texts from a bank or something. If I’m in all senders, then I get the messages.

You aren't seeing the messages from unknown senders in the known senders section in the Messages app, but when those messages come in are you still getting notifications for them (sounds, banners, notification center alerts, etc.), assuming you have those enabled for the Messages app?

 

[C DM]

With more and more political spam coming in these days it's rather unfortunate that Apple didn't account for something as basic as being able to silence notifications for messages from unknown senders when they already spent the time on creating filtering for those messages.

 

[C DM]

With continued unsolicited political/election spam texts coming from random numbers, I'm still rather surprised that while offering the same type of functionality for both messages and calls (as essentially should be the case) the way it works for one vs. the other is different for some reason, to the point where it can undermine the usefulness of the feature.

 

[BigMcGuire]

WOW has this been annoying or what?! I have never gotten so many calls/text messages about political ****. Even our company line is inundated with calls/texts. Must be cheap as <bleeeeeeep> to do this stuff.

 

[C DM]

WOW has this been annoying or what?! I have never gotten so many calls/text messages about political ****. Even our company line is inundated with calls/texts. Must be cheap as <bleeeeeeep> to do this stuff.

Definitely. At least for calls there's a way to exclude those that aren't part of your contacts and not have them bother you, on top of various other filtering apps that exist too. But with messages even through there's a way to separate those from those who aren't part of your contacts somehow there isn't a way to stop those from notifying you all the time. Hopefully it's just an oversight of some sort that Apple will address sooner rather than later given that that's how it used to work prior to iOS 14 (although at that time it was only limited to iMessages and has been expanded to apply to regular text messaging in iOS 14).