Spam and scam calls have turned the simple act of answering your phone into a risk calculation, but on the iPhone a surprising amount of protection is already built in. With a few quiet tweaks, you ...

The Federal Trade Commission released new data showing that Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with text messages in 2024. The agency identified five dominant categories of ...

With spam texts on the rise, especially on iPhones and iMessage, we thought it would be helpful to put together a guide on how to block those annoying texts. I'm not sure about you, but I started ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

If you constantly get text notifications from people trying to sell you something, or people who want to offer you deals, you may be a victim of spam texts. Spam texts are irritating and a waste of ...

Using filtering algorithms and users’ spam feedback, Google Voice now intercepts and redirects known numbers directly to your spam folder. Starting today, Google Voice users will have access to ...

Ding. It’s the sound of your iPhone text message alert. Your mind races. Who could it be? Your boss? Your mom? An old friend from high school? You glance at the screen. “Ray-Bans for 50% off all day!!

Email can be a wonderful thing. Hearing the notification sound from the Mail app and seeing that those tickets you ordered are on their way, relatives announcing there’s a new addition to the family, ...

Ever since I left SL on my main iMac about a year ago Mail.app's spam filtering has been awful. On a typical morning I log in to 50+ spam messages in my inbox and only a few in the actual spam folder.