Open the Settings app. Go to Notifications > Messages > Show Previews. Choose Never or Off to disable message previews.

Go into your iPhone and open the Settings app.

1. Tap “Notifications.” You can use the Search bar at the top to find it as well.
2. Under “Notification Style,” scroll until you see the “Messages” tab.
3. Under “Options” you’ll see a setting for “Show Previews.” Open the tab and select “Never” or “When Unlocked.”

Android: How to disable WhatsApp message preview on lock screen

1. Step 1: Go to Phone’s settings section.
2. Step 2: Tap on ‘Apps & Notifications,’ and search WhatsApp app.
3. Step 3: Once you find the messaging app, go to Notifications.
4. Step 4: Toggle off ‘Show Notifications.

Open up the Settings app, then go to Accessibility –> Motion. There, you’ll see a menu item called “Auto-Play Message Effects.” Toggle that off, and messages effects, whether they are bubble effects or screen effects, should not play right away.

For more info, contact your device manufacturer.

1. Open your phone’s Settings app.
2. Tap Apps and notifications. Notifications.
3. Under ‘Lock screen’, tap Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
4. Choose Don’t show notifications.

Follow these steps to hide text messages from your lock screen on an Android.

1. Open the Settings app on your Android device.
2. Choose Apps & notifications > Notifications.
3. Under the Lock Screen setting, choose Notifications on lock screen or On lock screen.
4. Select Don’t show notifications.

Go to [Settings] > [Notification & Status Bar] > [Manage Notifications] > tap the [Messages] app or any third-party messaging app > then tap on [Message Notification] / [Chats/Calls] > [Display on Lockscreen] > [Hide Content While Displaying].

The lock screen on your phone may be giving out information to prying eyes. Notifications for the Messages app in iOS may be showing up as previews on your lock screen that give away the topic of conversation as well as the contact’s name.

In Android Messages: This mostly isn’t a problem, since typical SMS text-message technology doesn’t support read receipts, though some newer standards do. Just in case, go to Settings > Chat features, then toggle off “Send read receipts” if you see the option.

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1. Go to home.
2. Select the settings app.
3. Select Notifications.
4. Navigate down and selelct iMessage (or messages on a iphone) from your list of apps.
5. From there you can change all the different notifications.

You can lock or hide messages, and even turn off message previews on iPhone so that your personal information stays private. There are even some secret text messaging apps for iPhones.

1) Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages. 2) Choose options, including the following: – Turn Allow Notifications on or off.- Set the position and locations of message notifications.- Choose the alert sound for message notifications.- Choose when message previews should appear. See More…

Go to Apple’s iMessage deregistration page from any web browser.

To turn off notifications on your iPhone, go to Settings -> Notifications — you’ll see a list of your apps that can send you notifications. To turn off notifications for an app, tap on it and turn off the switch next to Allow Notifications. You’ll know the switch is off when it’s gray and positioned to the left.

Depending on the details of your cellular service plan, you may find it useful to disable your iPhone’s “Messages” app to limit or completely stop incoming and outgoing texts. Tap “Settings” on your main screen. Tap the “Messages” tab on the Settings menu. Slide the “MMS Messaging” slider to the “Off” position.