You may not want to see the little preview of text messages that turn up on your home screen when a new text (SMS) message comes in. To turn this off, head to your iPhone settings and go to:
General -> Passcode Lock -> Show SMS Preview
Turning off 'Show SMS Preview' will disable the text message preview on your iPhone. You'll still get an alert that the message came in, including the sender's name/number, but none of the message will appear.
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This is incorrect. I still see previews of text messages regardless of whether the "Show SMS Preview" is on or off. I can't stand this function. Can someone please help me fix this issue? thanks!
You have to enable Password Lock.
yeah, but that only disables it when phone is locked...if the phone is in use it will still display message preview regardless if you have password lock with SMS priview off selected
follow this if you want to turn off the SMS Preview...
http://www.macriot.com/article.php/20080217024456548
That doesn't work either. This issue is the silliest BS ever. Apple really needs to get it's act together and fix this. Text notifications should work the same as email!!!
this features is not working on the 2.01 update, it use to work fine on the 1.1.4 firmware but cant get it to work on this new firmware