How to Block Spammy Text Messages on an iPhone

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Over six days I hit up San Diego, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles, and then San Diego again. It was about twenty hours of driving in total, along everything from wide open freeways, narrow canyon roads, and the chaos that is LA traffic. The whole time, I was trusting Apple Maps to get me where I needed to be…and amazingly, it did. Read This Article → How to Block Spammy Text Messages on an iPhone iOS 11 adds a new SMS filtering feature that allows you to automatically filter spam text messages in the Messages app. It works similarly to the call-blocking feature added in iOS 10. Once activated, you’ll have two tabs in your Messages app—one for real messages and one for “SMS Junk”. Read This Article → Why Snow, Rain, and Confetti Destroy Streaming Video Quality If you’ve ever watched a movie on Netflix, YouTube, or some other streaming service, you might notice that any time there’s a rainy scene, the video quality completely falls apart. Even if you’re streaming over the best internet connection, the video will look like crap. This happens because all video streams are compressed, and particles like rain, snow, and confetti completely destroy compressed streams. Read This Article → Canary's Free Tier May Have Changed, But It Still Offers More Than Other Cams Canary, the makers of the home security Wi-Fi cam that we briefly checked out earlier this year, made some changes to their memberships. Specifically, they cut down on the number of features available to users in the free tier, which has created some warranted backlash. Read This Article → RIP AIM, the Messaging App AOL Never Wanted Another piece of the retro Internet is dead. AOL’s free instant messaging service, called AIM, is shutting down its servers on December 15, 2017, 20 years after it launched…and about ten years after it was last relevant. Read This Article → How to Show Empty, Unformatted Drives in Disk Utility on macOS The macOS Disk Utility, by default, will not show you an empty, unformatted drive. You might think this means it can’t be used to create partitions on new disks, which is frustrating, but you can solve this problem with one click. Read This Article → What Is “COM Surrogate” (dllhost.exe) and Why Is It Running on My PC? If you poke around in your Task Manager, there’s a good chance you’ll see one or more “COM Surrogate” processes running on a Windows PC. These processes have the file name “dllhost.exe”, and are part of the Windows operating system. You’ll see them on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and even earlier versions of Windows. Read This Article → How to Easily Share Your Wi-Fi Password Using Your iPhone and iOS 11 If a friend or family member comes over to your house and wants to hop on your Wi-Fi network, iOS 11 has made it way easier to share your Wi-Fi password with very little friction. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Hide the Red Notification Badges for Apps on Your iPhone There are two kinds of people in this world: those who open and delete unwanted emails, and those who just ignore them, leaving the unread count to grow forever. Read This Article → How to Enable Emergency SOS Services on Your iPhone In iOS 11, Apple has introduced a new Emergency SOS feature to the iPhone. Let's look at what it does. Read This Article → Chrome Is Your OS Now, Even If You Use Windows Yesterday, Microsoft announced they are bringing Edge to iOS and Android devices, in order to create a more seamless experience between your computer and your phone. But who cares? 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