For awhile now, I've been employing a whitelist approach to all contact methods. Not on the whitelist, not bothering me. This was easy when I was on older Android versions.
Now I have a Nexus 6P with Android 6.0, and only the app that is set as the default SMS handler can block messages. The problem is, I want to use the standard Messenger client. I have not found any other clients I like as much, surprising as that is even to me.
I don't have a deep understanding of how this all works. But I've noticed that even when I have third-party SMS/MMS clients installed and set as the default, Messenger shows all current SMS/MMS messages when I open it.
This makes me wonder: Why aren't there any SMS clients that simply act as a sort-of proxy for Messenger? So I could set that other client as the default handler, block any sender not on my contact list, but only interact with Messenger? Why wouldn't this work? The "proxy" client would be blocking or deleting unwanted messages, and Messenger would show whatever was allowed to remain. What am I missing?
Now I have a Nexus 6P with Android 6.0, and only the app that is set as the default SMS handler can block messages. The problem is, I want to use the standard Messenger client. I have not found any other clients I like as much, surprising as that is even to me.
I don't have a deep understanding of how this all works. But I've noticed that even when I have third-party SMS/MMS clients installed and set as the default, Messenger shows all current SMS/MMS messages when I open it.
This makes me wonder: Why aren't there any SMS clients that simply act as a sort-of proxy for Messenger? So I could set that other client as the default handler, block any sender not on my contact list, but only interact with Messenger? Why wouldn't this work? The "proxy" client would be blocking or deleting unwanted messages, and Messenger would show whatever was allowed to remain. What am I missing?