Your iPhone now lets apps send you ‘Critical Messages’ via SMS

There’s a new Priority Notifications feature in iOS 18.4 to ensure important messages and alerts get prominent Lock Screen placement. But a different feature entirely was added in a recent iOS update—‘Critical Messages’—that enables apps to send your iPhone highly important messages via SMS. Here’s how it works.

New messaging feature involves very specific parameters to prevent spam

With an iPhone update over the last few months, Apple has given developers a new capability to send SMS alerts to users. But it’s only…