Set up Google Messages to automatically delete SMS with two-factor authentication on your mobile phone.

OTPs have become another one in our daily lives, even if you didn’t fully realize: logging into a social network account, verifying credentials, or transferring money. They are all One Time Passwords or OTPs.

One-time passwords increase security when logging in in your online accounts to prevent disclosure of your information. This requires your phone to be with you to receive SMS and it will expire after you use it, minimizing the chance of data being stolen.

However, the problem arises when our SMS inbox, which is used almost daily, becomes clogged with many useless messages. Fortunately, Google Messages has a feature to help you clean up your inbox. Let’s see how this feature works and how to automatically delete one-time passwords.

It can automatically split your posts in various categories such as “Personal”, “Transactions” and “OTP”. Thanks to this feature, you can now see all your one-time passwords in one place without having to look for them among your other texts.

In addition, it also allows you automatically delete these one-time passwords after 24 hours. This will help keep your inbox clean and clutter-free.

For this, we will use the Google messaging app. It’s already preinstalled on many Android devices, but you can download it from the Play Store if you don’t have it. Next, we will explain how to activate this feature:

• In the Google Messages app, tap the three-dot menu.
• Click “Settings” and “Organization of messages”.
• Activate automatic deletion of one-time passwords after 24 hours.

This nifty little feature helps a lot. After activating this feature, Google’s machine learning algorithms will automatically detect and delete your OTPs after 24 hours.

This is ideal because OTPs are only valid for a very short time, usually around 10 minutes.