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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.

In this day and age, spam is one of the most annoying issues we have to deal with. While the canned meat product is a tasty ham substitute, it’s less preferred in our email in text message inboxes.

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 ...