You can block text messages from a specific number or contact on your Android device with a third-party solution. Just follow these steps.
Blocking Text Messages
Option 1
Note: These steps are for the stock “Messaging” app included with Android 5. Some carriers may include a different app for messaging.
- Open “Messaging“.
- Press the “Menu”
icon located at the upper-right corner. - Select “Blacklist“.
- Set “Blacklist” to “On“, then select the plus (+) to add a person to block.
- Type the number you wsih to block. Check “Block incoming calls” and/or “Block incoming messages” as desired, then select “OK“.
- If you wish to remove a number from Blacklist, select the number, then choose “Delete“.
Option 2
If your messaging app does not offer a Blacklist option, use Handcent.
- Download and install Handcent SMS for your text messaging needs. It’s available in the Google Play store.
- Since you’ll be using Handcent for text messaging, disable the notifications for your current text messaging app. Otherwise, you’ll get double notifications for text messages.
- Open Handcent then select the “Menu”
icon at the upper left corner of the screen, then select the gear in the lower left corner of the screen. - Select “Security & privacy” > “Manage blacklist“.
- Tap the plus (+) icon to add the phone number you wish to block. You can choose one from your contacts, call logs, or input the number directly.
Now all of the text messages from that person will be blocked and not visible in the Handcent app. You won’t get notifications you’ve received a message from the person either. If you ever want to unblock the person, return to the “Manage blacklist” screen, tap it, then select “Unblacklist“.
Some users have reported that the app “Private Space” works well for them.
Sending an Automatic Reply
If you want to let a person know they have been blocked, you will need to download and install SwiftReply. SwiftReply will allow you to setup an auto reply for specific Contacts.
- Ensure the mobile number you wish to block is listed in your Contacts.
- Open “SwiftReply” and tap the plus icon (+) to make a new auto-reply.
- Type the name you would like to use for the reply and the text you would like to send to the person.
- Scroll down and select “Enable User Filter” > “Contacts“.
- Tap “Add” and choose the people in your Contacts list that you would like to receive the reply. Tap “Done” when your list is complete.
- Tap “Save“, then tap “Off” to turn the auto-reply on.
The specified people will now receive your message automatically and Handcent will block them from your view.
Alternately, some Android users have said they use the “Text Bouncer” app to accomplish all of the above in one app. However, I could not get it to work, and there are a few comments that have similar stories about the app being problematic. Feel free to give it a try though.
I’ve got a ZTE and I’m wanting to no how you block someone from sending me text messages
I have received a sms from a scammer. When I open it, there is no option to reply, nowhere to type a reply. Its like it has been dissabled. Also has no number that it came from, only a name. How can I reply or block? S7
i want to block calls and text messages of one person in my android phone And also i want that when i block any person then he/she comes to know that he/she is blocked by me.
Pls help me. Iam using a redx touch screen phn
I used call Booker, SMS Booker but not satisfied because I still receive texts. Also I don’t want to switch to default SMS to use n again give access to the number I wanted blocked. I want the number to be blocked for good so I can only access the other numbers which iam happy to use.
On my Droid Galaxy S5, there was no “Blacklist” option in the menu screen to turn on however, when I click and hold on the offending phone number, the screen changes to a list of phone numbers with a checkbox on the left side to select. An option also appears at the top of the screen to add those selected to the “spam numbers list” (the option at the top is an icon containing no words – just a picture of a circle with a line through it). Clicking that icon will add all selected numbers in the list to what the phone calls the “spam numbers” list (essentially the blacklist by a different name) Hope that helps.
I wanna block my ex, because all he does is send mean messages, and I found out that after our break up, he asked my best friend to go out to the movies with him specifically without me. I use the Verizon messaging app.
Why is the blacklisted text still showing in my messages? It’s just greyed-out but I can still see the text. How can I NOT see the text please? I’m on a Samsung G3
I am sending this site to my adult son who has been harassed by an insane person for most of the last 2 years. He has blocked her calls but still gets texts day and night. She is dangerous and the police won’t do anything until she does something violent, more than putting him in the hospital with bites and injuries all over from her attack. He fears for his life and she keeps on ruining every day for him. I hope that maybe he can use this site and blocking her will give him some relief. It is really sad when a mentally ill woman can just walk over and terrorize our whole family.
That’s interesting if I would know if I was being blocked some kind of an app securing blocked messages, I we pulsating mind if I know if my message was blocked or how can I tell period.
Is there a way to “mute” a specific contact, but still receive their texts? I want to receive the texts, but I don’t want the notifications.
Is the handcent app for blocking a particular number in text messaging free?
Want to block a caller who’s beime a nuisance n vulgarity n threats.
How do I block texts from a sender when the phone number is unknown???
I blocked someone but now I’m curious to see what he texted me while he was blocked
Are there any apps like SwiftReply for the iPhone? Something that lets callers know they’ve been blocked or maybe even just an app that can sends text message auto-replies to different individual contacts?? I’ve tried searching for one in the App Store but with no luck…thanks!!