SmartFilter for SMS 4+

The only app that worked for me

Despite never handing out my phone number unless necessary, it ended up on a spam list. I got the same kind of spam message like clockwork every morning and it was a huge annoyance. I googled and tried out more popular apps like Malwarebytes and VeroSMS and neither of them filtered any messages. You’d think Apple would at least have a built-in filter to block links from unknown senders that is not restricted to iMessages...

This app is simple and 100% functional. Words cannot describe how happy I was to discover that it successfully filtered out the spam this morning. I don’t know why this app isn’t more well-known, I’ve only seen it mentioned once on a random Reddit comment during my initial search. Payment isn’t even required but I would most definitely have paid more than the $1 tip for this service. Bless you developer for making my digital life a little more bearable, you have my undying gratitude for not having to go through the same tedious motions of deleting garbage every single day. For everyone else reading this, get this app and tip the guy if it ends up working for you.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m glad my little app made someone’s life easier!

Seems to work well!

I installed SmartFilter a few months ago and it seems to have caught almost all the messages that some jerk signed me up for.

One thing to watch out for is that it may silently catch desirable messages like notifications from your bank and phone company. I successfully trained SmartFilter to pass those messages by checking the filtered messages (in the Messages app under the tab “Unknown & Junk”) and pasting them into the SmartFilter app.

I didn't mark SmartFilter down for initially incorrect classifications because in my opinion false positives are inevitable at the start and retraining it worked as expected. On the other hand, the process for retraining it could be made clearer and easier. You need to copy the SMS with a long click, open the app, select “Report SMS", paste the SMS into the box, and select “Normal”. I think the developers could turn this into a single operation by redesigning the front screen. But this is a minor point and didn't affect my rating, which was based on the app's overall efficacy.

Finally found something that works for spam texts

I have tried everything to try and get rid of spam calls / texts. I couldn't figure out how to get them to stop and nothing seemed to work and I tried everything. Many of them made it worse and I was almost to the point of changing my phone number, but I've had my number for a long time and I didn't want to change my number and get someone else's headaches... with the calls and texts. Anyway, I was looking through the app store and I stumbled on this one. I read the reviews and I thought I'd give it a shot... what do I have to lose. This app is amazing! I can't believe how fast this is getting rid of the spam texts from my phone! Thank you so much for such a great job with eliminating the frustration I used to have with my phone! If you want to get rid of spam texts, this app will get rid of them for you.