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How to set your iPhone to auto-reply STOP to spam robotexts

Allan Rose Hill
Nov 07, 2024
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Election or not, I receive far too many spam robotexts. Creative coder Nolen Royalty created an elegant iOS automation that auto-replies STOP to unknown numbers, and kindly shared it with the world.

Here is the logic:

Make an automation that runs whenever a message contains " "
Have it do the following:
* Get phone numbers from shortcut input; cal…

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