How to delete an SMS from the inbox in Android programmatically?

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“As of Android 1.6, incoming SMS message broadcasts (android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED) are delivered as an “ordered broadcast” — meaning that you can tell the system which components should receive the broadcast first.”

This means that you can intercept incoming message and abort broadcasting of it further on.

In your AndroidManifest.xml file, make sure to have priority set to highest:

<receiver android:name=".receiver.SMSReceiver" android:enabled="true">
    <intent-filter android:priority="1000">
        <action android:name="android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

In your BroadcastReceiver, in onReceive() method, before performing anything with your message, simply call abortBroadcast();

EDIT: As of KitKat, this doesn’t work anymore apparently.

EDIT2: More info on how to do it on KitKat here:

Delete SMS from android on 4.4.4 (Affected rows = 0(Zero), after deleted)

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