If you're receiving those unwelcome political text messages from fundraisers, here's what you need to know about them and how you can reclaim your phone and block those messages for good.

Most of these texts tell you at the end of the message how to stop receiving them. The most common responses to stop unwanted political texts are Stop, Opt-Out, Unsubscribe, Cancel, or Quit.

One option is TM Check, a scam and spam blocker from Trend Micro, maker of antivirus software. A month’s subscription is $1.99/£1.99, or you can subscribe for a year for $19.99/£19.99.

Thankfully, there are easy ways to block individual numbers from right in your iPhone free you from unwanted texts and calls -- it'll just take a bit of legwork to get there.

How to opt out If you get a political text and you want to prevent any future communications from the number, you can opt-out by texting “STOP.” The FCC said campaigns must honor this.