When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

Facebook is making an update to its Messages feature. It’s adding message filters to help solve the problem of finding messages that should be seen and seeing those that shouldn’t. To do that, it is ...

Twitter is taking its screening of unknown direct messages a step further. The social media giant announced today that it is testing a filter for messages that contain offensive content. Messages ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced a new way to filter chat messages on Xbox Live. Xbox will also add the filter to other aspects of the dashboard — like profiles, LFG, Clubs, and the Activity Feed — over ...

Even in the pantheon of abusive internet communities, online gaming is notorious for being an unpleasant sphere. That's why Microsoft has started to tamp down on abuse that originates on its Xbox Live ...

Instagram is updating new features at a breakneck pace, and this is of course good. We all know that we can send messages on Instagram. And now Instagram has added a new feature that will allow you to ...

Skype is rolling out an update for its Android app today that introduces new video filters not unlike competitive video chat services. The new filters can be applied to video messages with various ...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple has improved the search function in its stock Messages app for Mac, which now allows you to combine search queries and narrow down results to quickly find the messages that ...

The gaming community can be ruthless and often outright abusive. In an attempt to make Xbox more welcoming and inclusive, Microsoft is introducing new content filters. Beginning today, Xbox Insiders ...