It's the holidays, so my phone is abuzz with messages. The problem is, most of the texts I'm receiving aren't from family and ...

Though checking your email inbox might be the least relaxing thing in the world, there is something particularly soothing about having separated filters in our inbox. It might be easy to take for ...

Apple’s Messages app scored a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a new ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to eliminate spam texts.

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Twitter is taking its screening of unknown direct messages a step further. The social media giant announced today that it is testing a filter for messages that contain offensive content. Messages ...

For those who use WhatsApp more like an inbox, the app will now become more useful. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a handful of new chat filters for the app to access certain types of messages easily: ...

The gaming community can be ruthless and often outright abusive. In an attempt to make Xbox more welcoming and inclusive, Microsoft is introducing new content filters. Beginning today, Xbox Insiders ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced a new way to filter chat messages on Xbox Live. Xbox will also add the filter to other aspects of the dashboard — like profiles, LFG, Clubs, and the Activity Feed — over ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If you get an error prompt stating Call was canceled by the message filter, 0x80010002 when you try to open an application or when the application is called on your ...