Fraudulent SMS, annoying advertising offers, all sorts of pop-up ads. Do you know it too? And does it always make you so angry? Almost everyone receives spam and fraudulent SMS from time to time, and scammers are trying to be more and more cunning in them to lure us into clicking. But Google came up with an interesting finding, namely that spam goes to iPhones much more often than to Android phones. And even up to 56% more often.
Apple is a relatively closed ecosystem and has developed various mechanisms to ensure user safety. However, the same is being worked on Google and individual mobile phone manufacturers are also joining in. In the end, it is Android phones are more secure than iPhonesAnd it's not just Google's empty boasting.
Google commissioned a survey among more than 100,000 people through research company YouGov. 5,000 users smartphones in the US, India and Brazil. He wanted to find out how often they get text messages spam or fraudulent offers, focusing on the week before the survey itself. As a result, he compared whether Android device owners or iPhone owners were better off. iPhones.
The study's conclusions are quite surprising:
- on Android it is iOS by 58% higher probability that you will not receive a fraudulent SMS or RCS
- Pixel phone users even have by 96% higher chance of not receiving any spam or fraudulent messages for a whole week
- iPhone users have compared to Android by 65% higher probability of receiving 3 or more fraudulent SMS or RCS messages per week
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The research seems purposeful, and asking questions over a week's time period isn't entirely comprehensive. It would be more appropriate to compare how much spam and fraud via SMS reaches users in a month or six months, for example. But YouGov also adds its own study that confirms Google's conclusions. Na iOS simply more unwanted content is being circulated than on an Android device.
Although Apple does a lot to protect users, Google is working even harder on it – performing RCS security checks, building Android’s own protection against fraud and phishing, having built-in anti-spam filters in the Messages and Phone apps, and incorporating artificial intelligence into all of this. And it’s also introducing spam protection WhatsApp.
Phew, someone here is relying on SPAM at iOS….but you won't admit that Android is riddled with SPAM, even in stupid settings menus. I've never seen a user set a ringtone after watching an ad…until I picked up my neighbor's Xiaomi.
yeah I was surprised too, I have the same experience and every time I choose a different song there is an ad 😀
That's brutal 😀
I don't believe it because I have a different personal experience!
You can't buy a Xiaomi for a quarter :-d
Yes, that's really brutal, to reply to your own comment, even twice😀
So count received SMS as SPAM. It would probably be interesting to switch phones next time to see if those SMS will also arrive on the phone when it has iPhone. I guess the file depends on where the users left their number, right?
What nonsense are you writing here? What kind of sms and ads? 😊 I have iPhones from 2G and I don't know what a fraudulent sms is... maybe the one on whatsapp.. and I'm a businessman and I have the number on the internet... oh my god this is bullshit