Does "Report Junk" in iMessage do anything?

I get a few spam SMSes a day from previously-unknown numbers. They're mostly political, always mention Trump or Harris, and always contain a link. I Delete and Report Junk every time. This should be a fairly easy heuristic to match.

(It's also possible that Apple is intentionally NOT filtering campaign-related keywords, either by legal threat or cowardice. US politicians always try to make it illegal to filter campaign spam.)

@marcoarment @gruber You guys have to try out Bouncer, a free and open source app which lets you filter SMS by keyword/regex. I've been using it since the 2022 election to cut down on donation spam and other recurring messages.

iOS 18 changed something so it's been broken in the betas (app needs to be recompiled with Xcode 16). I haven’t received any spam since the latest ones dropped so it may be fixed, but it won't be an issue in a few weeks anyway.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bouncer-private-sms-blocker/id1457476313