How will I prevent it from showing me messages that I have no intention of replying to?
For instance, SMS spam, or advertising and informational messages from my network provider ("your latest bill is ready to view"). I don't reply to these - from your description, it seems like they'd stay as notifications of unresponded messages indefinitely.
Thank you for your response, If you long press on a message you receive, you can add it to the ignore list. Later, in the menu, you can remove people from your ignore list
For instance, SMS spam, or advertising and informational messages from my network provider ("your latest bill is ready to view"). I don't reply to these - from your description, it seems like they'd stay as notifications of unresponded messages indefinitely.