WideProtect SMS Blocker

This is the SMS filter I’ve been looking for, no more political ads, no more spam… just the texts I want to see. I’ve been using the paid version for over a year, it’s never failed me and keeps getting better with every update!!! Dev is super responsive to questions too. 10 of 10 will recommend. If someone says it’s not working, it’s because they haven’t enabled it in settings properly.

It’s amazing how hard I get hammered with texts from political groups looking for $$$. The first few weeks I was adding filters like crazy, now after several weeks the amount that gets through is one to three a week. Nice. Being filtered to Junk messages, makes it easy to scan them (if you’re paranoid that one of them is important; you’ll get over it) since they’re all in one place and not mixed in with your regular texts. Highly recommend this app. I’m going to install it on my wife’s phone, and export the list to her. Sweet.

I tried to block a bunch of text messages and it came from a +1 (646) number. I tried to put a + in front of the 1 but it won’t let me so I had to put 1 646 * and 1 646-* which supposed to block all numbers start with +1 646. Well text messages with that same number still get through since there is no way for me to put a + in front of the one. The number pad did have a + sign but it won’t let you enter it. I sent the author an email and it has been quite a few days. There is no answer. I bought both programs from him so I will try a different app and get my money back hopefully. I did grant the app permission in Setting.