Connection issues when receiving a text message

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Whenever I receive a text message during a chess game on my phone, I lose my connection for 5-10 seconds and sometimes longer. Often just as I join a 1 minute bullet tournament, my family starts group texting like it's going out of style and I lose multiple games because of time. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm looking for a phone option to shut off text messaging but retain cellular data otherwise. I have googled this problem till I'm blue in the face and can't get anywhere. Thought I would check here. Quite desperate. I have an iPhone 11 with Mint Mobile.

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No this is a real problem. Sometimes I feel like throwing things. Just imagine you're one move away from checkmate with 2 seconds left on the clock and you receive a text that says "lol". NO THAT WAS NOT FUNNY!!!

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Yeah but airplane mode shuts off access to chess.com too.