In the past week, for the first time in the four years I’ve used a smartphone, I’ve received several spam text messages from “Blocked” and “9999999”. I was annoyed, and puzzled about how to get this ...

My phone has been blowing up lately. Yes, I have dozens of fans — I call them Howley’s Wolf Pack — but that’s not who texts me at all hours of the day and night. No, I’ve been getting texts from ...

“Hi Pooja, it’s Bob from your bank. Your payment can’t be processed. Please reprocess by clicking the link below.” Chances are you’ve received some iteration of that text message recently. Gone are ...

How Call Screening works. When activated, unknown callers hear an automated message asking them to state their name and ...

Apple’s new 'Call Screening' feature in iOS 26 automatically filters spam and unknown calls before your iPhone rings. Learn how to enable it and stop unwanted interruptions while keeping your privacy ...

If you're fed up with receiving spam calls, there's a straightforward method to cut them down - as long as you own an iPhone operating iOS 13 or one of its latest versions. Users can utilise the ...

Apple (AAPL, Financial) is on course to roll out a new service, which may well be called Business Caller ID, sometime early next year. The service will allow users to recognize business callers easily ...

Apple released the third public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 14. The update brought a handful of new features, like a new Liquid Glass design and the ability to change your alarm's snooze length, to the ...

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