Recent content by JonC

Thanks. I enabled Messages and disabled the spam filter there. I seem to be getting text verifications now.

Mostly, but not all.

My phone is filtering SMS messages and I want to turn this off. Among other things, I'm not getting text verifications. I'm using the same SMS messenger I always have and I've looked carefully at its settings. I've disabled Google Messages. I've looked at the phone settings and see nothing...

Google Messenger wasn't my default text messenger, but it was filtering messages anyway, I was missing some important messages, I disabled it in the app settings, but removing it isn't an option there. How do I get rid of it?

I just got a generic smartphone with Android 14. It has 512 GB ROM. I can't mount it on my desktop computer. On previous Android phones, I was prompted for permission when I plugged it in. This one doesn't prompt me, and doesn't mount on the PC. Is there something I need to do in the settings? I...