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Find the thing that is bothering you most. Every guide gives you practical steps and links to the people who run the service.
Make your phone yours again.
Register your number, screen unwanted calls and keep the people you want to hear from within reach.
Read the guideYour calendar is not advertising space.
Stop unfamiliar invitations taking over your schedule, without switching off the meetings you actually need.
Read the guideA quieter inbox. Without losing the good stuff.
Unsubscribe from genuine mailing lists and give wanted newsletters a place of their own.
Read the guideGet off the lists behind the lists.
Use official privacy routes to reduce how widely your contact details are shared.
Read the guideKeep the network. Lose some of the noise.
Adjust invitations and messages without giving up the professional connections you value.
Read the guideA lighter letterbox.
Reduce addressed marketing, unaddressed leaflets and the data that puts your home on mailing lists.
Read the guideKeep your everyday email a little more private.
Use a different forwarding address for sign-ups, so one noisy service is easier to switch off.
Read the guideWhen the everyday fixes are not enough.
More restrictive options can reduce interruptions further. They also need more care.
Read the guideWhen they keep contacting you anyway.
Who to complain to about marketing that carries on after you have said no, what to have ready and what happens afterwards.
Read the guideFewer texts you never asked for.
Know when replying STOP is the right move, when to forward a text to 7726 instead, and how to filter unknown senders on your phone.
Read the guideA quieter WhatsApp.
Silence calls from numbers you don’t know, block and report a sender, and choose who can add you to groups, while keeping friends and family within reach.
Read the guideClear the junk out of Apple Calendar.
Remove spam events from your iPhone, iPad or Mac calendar using Apple’s own delete, unsubscribe and Report Junk controls.
Read the guideAsk where they got your details.
How to ask an organisation what it holds about you and where it came from, how long it has to answer and what to do with the reply.
Read the guideTell a charity to stop asking.
Ask a named charity to stop its fundraising post, calls, emails and texts, for yourself or for someone you look after.
Read the guideMarketing sent to someone who has died.
Two free services can reduce the marketing post and charity appeals still arriving in their name, though neither stops everything.
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