How can I turn off the home screen preview of SMS/text messages?
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 -> Notifications -> Messages
Turning off 'Show Preview' will disable the text message preview on your iPhone.
iOS 5 UPDATE: iOS 5 and later feature the Notification Center. To turn off the message preview follow these instructions:
Settings -> Notifications -> Messages -> Show Preview -> OFF
You can also use this screen to set other parameters for alerts, including Alert Style.
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
try Settings, Messages, Show Preview (Off)
you go to setting, then go to notifications, select messages and then see how you want your messages to apprear.
you go to settings , then go to notifactios.select msg then scroll down u will see show preview, turn it off, then it will work.
Hey thanks so much for the info.
Thamk you - Obrigado!!
thanks , works through notifications i couldnt remember how to do this for ages!
Thank you so much! It worked!
Thanks!
Thank you! im a while late but it helped me figure it out :)
Im not sure if this works but you can try it worked for me (I have an iphone4)
Settings > Notifications > Messages > Show Preview (off) > View in Lock screen (off)
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
For those of you who haven't found it somewhere else yet, its:
Settings>notifications>messages and there you can turn off the preview!
well done that was driving me nuts spent two day on net trying to find solution thanks for your help....
well done that was driving me nuts spent two day on net trying to find solution thanks for your help.
Thank you!!! That was driving me crazy as well.
Thank you. Correct information
Yay this worked!
Don't get why they hv the text preview automatically on. Who wants their messages out on display like that.
pls help how do you stop the preview texts on the 4S
thank you sooooo much, I thought I was going to have to deal with multiple SMS alert messages for the rest of my life. Never again!
Thank you! Couldn't find anywhere else on the net
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It was REALLY driving me nuts as well.
Thank you!!!!!
THANK YOU!!! That was driving me nuts.. I dont know why Apple thinks that should be open to the public. I would like to keep my conversations private.
Yessss thank u! U iPhone guru :)
THANKS!!!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you, you're a genius - I couldn't find that info anywhere and there seems to be lots of different ways to turn it off depending on which version you are running. That's great to know - thanks again.
thank you that has done the tirick for me too
This was what I was looking for thank you so much !!!
simple, effective , perfect ,,, the kind of fix i like, thanks, it was doing my head in !!!
Thank you, almost got a divorce over that....Stupid message came through and it was a joke but the wifey did NOT take it as one. I had the preview shut off but for some reason they were still showing up.
thanks so much
It still puts out the name of the person sending the text. Is there any way for my phone to notify me that I have a text without showing the actual text and who sent it??
Try this! Worked for me.
Settings> Nofications > Messages
This REALLY worked on my iPhone 4s:)
Settings>Notifications>Messages> Show Preview OFF
Yes Finally! It worked! This shit was pissing me off! Thanks! (happy dance)
Thanks All - I spent a few days trying to work it out until I found this blog.
Can I also keep the caller's name from showing up?
Tisk Tisk...secretive texters. :-)
Speaking for myself....it's not being secretive. It's keeping personal life separate from work. I don't need co-workers seeing messages that pop up while my phone is on my desk. No secrets....just private.
Yes..go through same process and turn off View in lock screen
Yes go back into message settings and and turn off (View in lock screen)
thanks, all the other posts were wrong... I wonder if this is because of the new ios
thanks a million!! i was stuck trying to figure it out too! my messages were coming up for all to see and I couldnt fig out how to hide them.. thx again..
**** On new 4S!!*****(Different than 4 and 3 instructions)
Settings> Notifications> Messages> Preview On/Off