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set iPhone to not receive text messages

Is there a method to have iPhones not receive text messages?

iPhone SE, iOS 15

Posted on Aug 10, 2022 7:50 AM

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KiltedTim

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Posted on Aug 10, 2022 7:57 AM

Ask your cellular carrier to disable SMS and MMS messaging on your account. Not that this means FaceTime and iMessage also won’t work because they use SMS to communicate with Apple’s servers.

There is no setting on the phone to turn messages off entirely.

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