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Republican Election Group Is Attempting To Organize Against Text Message Filtering In iOS 26


Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/28/republicans-say-apple-update-will-hurt-fundraising/

Since 70% of small-dollar donations come via text, and iPhones make up 60% of US mobile devices, the macro effect could be over $500M in lost GOP revenue. It’s just a change to stop sending notifications for texts from unknown senders, and to put those messages in a separate timeline by default. People will check the Unknown Senders timeline occasionally too — all sorts of text messages from bots will go there, including some you want or need.

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