You’re not alone. Millions deal with the daily nuisance of unwanted calls and spam messages, but there are practical ways to stop them.

ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users.

Spam texts are the new spam calls. For the second year in a row, those annoying messages have outnumbered spam calls.