Best Apps for Blocking SMS on Smartphone

Those who have never left their contact details either in gift and savings card forms or on online shopping sites are deprived of the charm of feeling the barrage of messages urging them to call a cab or go and buy something at a discount. But unfortunately, these people are few and far between, and maybe they don’t have a phone at all. If you do have a phone and SMS spam is no longer an option, this article is for you.

If you have an iPhone, you can unsubscribe from SMS spam using the settings on your phone. For Android and Symbian users, we recommend an overview of free anti-SMS spam applications.

Spam Agent

How it works

Go to the application, open the “Inbox” folder, select a spam message and mark it as unwanted. All SMS spam will be stored in a special folder in the application. Your Spam Agent studies those numbers and services that need to be blocked, learns itself and does not let harmful messages through. The developers themselves write that the program uses “machine learning methods” to block SMS.

Advantages

1. You don’t need to make long blacklists on your own, you only need to mark an SMS message as spam.
2. There are no ads in the application itself.
3. Simple interface and working principle.

Disadvantages

1. Unable to turn off the sound notification that spam has arrived.
2. There are problems using the program on some models of phones (for example, Samsung Galaxy Note).

SMS Spam Blocker (Postman)

Working principle

SMS Spam Blocker application blocks messages from those numbers that are not in your trust list (you need to create it yourself). You can set a low or high level of SMS protection. With low protection level the application works as usual, and with high protection level it blocks SMS from all unknown numbers.

Advantages

1. You can completely disable spam alerts.
2. Automatic deletion of spam from the app folder after 45 days. 2.
3. Frequent updates.

Disadvantages

1. Filters only by “whitelist”, if your friend or relative changes SIM, a message from the new number may go into spam.
2. There are ads in the app.