SMS and MMS Message Filtering
Create an app extension that identifies and filters unwanted SMS and MMS messages while preserving user privacy.
Overview
When a user receives an SMS or MMS message from an unknown sender, the Messages app can ask your Message Filter app extension to determine whether the message is unsolicited or otherwise unwanted. Your app extension can make this determination by using its own built-in data and logic or by deferring to analysis done by your associated server.
To find out if a message from an unknown sender is unwanted, the Messages app launches the currently enabled Message Filter app extension and queries it, as shown in the figure below.
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The Messages app uses an ILMessageFilterQueryRequest object to pass information about the message to your Message Filter app extension. If your app extension can determine whether the message is unwanted, it returns its decision to Messages in an ILMessageFilterQueryResponse object.
If your app extension can’t make this determination by itself, it tells Messages to send the information about the message to a server associated with your app. Your server examines the message information and sends a response to Messages, which passes the response to your app extension. The app extension parses the server’s response and returns the final decision to Messages in an ILMessageFilterQueryResponse object, as shown in the figure below.
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