Why don't you whitelist the important contacts on your phone and set your phone into do not disturb mode? For iPhone see: https://www.imore.com/how-receive-mes

Why don't you whitelist the important contacts on your phone and set your phone into do not disturb mode? For iPhone see: https://www.imore.com/how-receive-messages-specific-contacts-do-not-disturb-mode https://www.imore.com/how-receive-messages-specific-contacts... For Android see: https://www.greenbot.com/article/2995581/android/take-control-of-notifications-with-android-marshmallows-do-not-disturb-feature.html https://www.greenbot.com/article/2995581/android/take-contro... If I recall correctly HN User Patio11 used Twilio when he was in Japan to filter messages/calls from his contacts. See: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/01/how-patrick-mckenzie-builds-twilio-apps.html https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/01/how-patrick-mckenzie-bui... Edit: Of course http://ifttt.com/ http://ifttt.com/ could be your friend and relay SMS to your app of choice ;-)