Now Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users. The company has maintained that Messages is its primary communication solution for its users. There are many people who receive unsolicited messages that may contain disguised links which lead to phishing websites or sites that are hosting malware. But, after almost six months of work, the tech giant Google has come up with its spam protecting feature for Messages. Earlier this week, Google announced it was planning to shift its Messages web app-which allows users to manage SMS/MMS messages on their phone from another device-from Android.com to Google.com. Data about spam messages is to improve the search engine giant`s ability to "detect future spam for users".
What Is Spam Message?
Spam SMS are unwanted text messages that are usually either someone that deliver entertainment and information to your mobile phone. Spam refers to the use of electronic messaging systems to send out unrequested or unwanted messages in bulk.
Android Police that says that Google has started rolling out the spam protection feature to some of its users. After testing it for a few days, the company will roll the feature out to the masses.
As of now, it is being said that it is a server-end rollout of the spam protection feature. So, when your device gets the feature, you will be informed about it via a notification message. To manually activate the feature, you can head to the Settings of your smartphone, then select the option of Advanced Settings and then choose Spam Protection. You need to make sure that this option is enabled in order to make the spam protection feature work in Android apps.
How to Enable this Feature?
By default, spam protection is turned on. In case it isn’t, you can enable it manually by going to Messages’ settings and navigating to Settings -> Advanced -> Spam protection -> Enable spam protection.
How the Spam protection works are undescribed, to help protect against spam some data about your messages, but not any content, is set to Google. With no official announcement coming from Google just yet about this, it would appear that the feature is still being tested and not making a global rollout quite yet. but presumably, it looks at that data statistically to determine commonalities between spam messages to detect them. If you send a spam report manually, it still submits the full message to Google, including phone numbers of both sender and recipient as well as the message’s contents. For now, it remains to be seen how effective Google’s solution may be against the increasing number of spam messages.