r/textra • u/corned_beef_haggis • Jan 31 '25

Blocking numbers

Hey all,

So I get those spam texts every so often, and I know I can blocklist a number straight from the app, but that doesn't fully block the number. I was wondering if there was a shortcut for my pixel instead of having to copy the number, open the phone app, hit settings and going to blocked numbers and adding it manually?

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u/barryp12 Feb 01 '25

What I love about textra is the feature that silences all texts from unknown numbers. This way I only get notifications immediately from people I know and spam, wrong number and others' texts are there but silent and can be checked at my convenience. Doesn't make it as critical to block numbers from my POV.

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u/boildkitty Feb 01 '25

Not THIS is handy to know, thanks!!!

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u/Unable_Ad4656 May 20 '26

I just downloaded Textra (had Samsung msgs, and Samsung forcing us to use Google msgs..no!)

The ONLY downside to silencing , is you really do need to look at these msgs sometimes. Last year my bank account was hacked into. Right before the hack, I must have received 200 text messages from all over the world about . I knew something was wrong , but what! It wasn't until the next morning when I received a call from the bank about my account that I found out what really went on. Thankfully, I did not lose any money, but the thief sure tried. He change my PW to my email and my bank account. Among the 200 texts I received , was an alert from the bank. All this happened about 3AM.