If you’re tired of receiving spam on your phone, you’re not alone. According to research firm RoboKiller, the United States received nearly 12 billion spam and scam messages during the month of May alone, rounding up about 43 per person in the country. Fortunately, Apple is now hoping to help combat the influx with a new reporting feature in the upcoming iOS 16.
Launched for the beta version of the operating system, the new feature allows iPhone users to report spam emails directly to Apple, as well as the user’s service provider, who will then investigate and dial the number for a future spam prevention. The feature was previously available in previous generations of iOS, but only worked with iMessages, so increasing the coverage of SMS messages will be useful. Please note, however, that reporting the number will not automatically mean that you will no longer receive messages from them, so you will still have to manually block the number on your device if you want to be safe.
Unfortunately, there is still no official release date for iOS 16, but Apple is expected to release the update this fall.
Elsewhere in the tech world, Twitter is introducing longer-formatted content with a feature called Notes.