A routine that clears spam texts and junk mail on a timer

You can hand your spam cleanup to a Bot on a schedule and stop deleting junk by hand. @FoundAt5280 wrote on Oct 21 that they set up "a routine in Grok Bot to go and check my text messages once an hour, and unsubcribe and delete any it finds are spam." Before that, they say, "I was getting no less then 30 text messages every day that were spam. And now I don't have to deal with ANY of them." This is self-reported. We have not run it. The post doesn't say how the Bot reaches the texts or how it unsubscribes, and we found no official Grok Bot feature for reading text messages. Third-party skills exist, such as one that calls itself an "iMessage/SMS skill for Grok Bot on the user's Mac" (GitHub), so treat the unsubscribe part as the user's claim.

What it replaces#

Before: daily hand deletion of political and marketing texts and newsletters. After: a routine does the sorting on a timer. A second user, @nerdalator, has the same setup for email: "I have a grok bot that runs every morning to clean up my mail and ask me who to unsubscribe from, took weeks to cleanup my mail but now it runs daily and I have so much less email."

How it works#

1. Pick the inbox and the timer. Texts every hour for @FoundAt5280, mail every morning for @nerdalator. Neither post says how they gave the Bot access to their messages.
2. Write the exceptions down. @FoundAt5280 targets "all the poltical stuff" but says "I had it exclude my representatives."
3. Let the Bot ask before it unsubscribes. @nerdalator's Bot asks "who to unsubscribe from" instead of deciding alone.
4. Park before you delete. @nerdalator started "with creating folder and label named 'groktobedeleted' so I can review what is moving there before ultimate deletion." In the same thread, @Xenius, who didn't name the tool, said their chief of staff "has essentially been grouping things on how much I need to check and then I give the go ahead after."

Starter prompt (ours, untested; neither user published theirs):

Every morning at 7, look through my inbox from the last 24 hours.
Move anything that is clearly spam, political fundraising or a
newsletter I never open into a label called "to-delete". Never
touch mail from these senders: [your list]. Do not delete or
unsubscribe from anything yourself. Send me a short list: which
senders you moved, and which ones you think I should unsubscribe
from. Wait for my yes before unsubscribing.

Good to know#

• Start with move-only. Deleting on day one means a real message can vanish before you notice.
• Keep an exceptions list (family, your bank, your representatives) in the prompt, and add to it when the Bot gets one wrong.
• An hourly routine runs about 24 times a day. If usage matters on your plan, a morning run may be enough.
• @nerdalator says the first pass "took weeks." Expect a long backlog cleanup before the daily run gets quiet.
• Big backlogs can burn through usage. On a 35,000-email junk pile, @FoundAt5280 wrote on Sep 29 that the Bot "ran out of tokens overnight and only deleted 8,000. The problem is it can only delete 1 at a time, not by sender." The suggested fix: "sort by sender and just mass delete by sender." On Oct 1 the user said the pile was "Down to 25k."

Same idea in Grok Bot#

This already is a Grok Bot setup. Save it as a routine on one Bot, and tell it to stay quiet on days it moves nothing.

Sources#

• @FoundAt5280 on X, Oct 21, 2026 (11:49 AM ET)
• @nerdalator on X, Oct 20, 2026 (10:48 AM ET)
• @nerdalator on X, Oct 20, 2026 (10:53 AM ET)
• @Xenius on X, Oct 20, 2026 (10:59 AM ET)
• @FoundAt5280 on X, Sep 29, 2026 (10:21 PM ET)
• @FoundAt5280 on X, Oct 1, 2026 (7:19 PM ET)
• steve228uk/grok-bot-imessage on GitHub