Comments on: iPhone Text Message Privacy: How to Turn off SMS Preview

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:32:55 +0000

I really think that there should be a password lock on the messages, as well as the phone. Sometimes people are going through your phone and you don’t want them to read your texts messages. There may be private contents that you don’t want people to read. If there was something like the phone lock on messages, the iPhone would be perfect!

By: Tigi

Tigi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:05:55 +0000

I agree, hubby guards his cell phone with a passion. He’s receiving messages from women he shouldn’t. Papers should be arriving any day now. Bye-bye to the louse! Even though I can’t see the text messages he sure left one long paper trail.

By: xdjneo

xdjneo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:46:11 +0000

Settings>Messages and the setting to turn off preview is there, no need to use the passcode if you dont want to deal with it

By: Assassin_Trojan

Assassin_Trojan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:53:31 +0000

hi fellas!
i got this problem that i dunno how to solve.
D issue is my iphone 3G fw3.0 doesnt display names on my messages..
as in, messages pops up with no names rather it pops up with numbers like +76352 blah blah blah instead of the real names in my contact..pls i need help ASAP
Thanx

By: henry

henry — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:10:13 +0000

Since the private text messages are only a small part of all the messages you are using , treat them differently . Use the new PrivateTIP application for iphones on app store , with this application you are hiding the text message in an innocent photo from photo library , you can then store back the photo with hidden text to photo library , you can send the photo with hidden text by email to a friend . The text can be extracted only by the application which is protected by password . Read more on http://www.adj-soft.com .

By: Regina

Regina — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:26:58 +0000

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!

Apple definitely needs to solve this issue.
In the meantime, congrats for finding the solution Chris!!

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:51:16 +0000

No, it’s not perfect. You still get a push notification on your phone as soon as a text message appears. So if you’re showing someone photos on your phone, for example, you’ll get an alert that you have a text from so-and-so which you are given the option of either ignoring or viewing. Either way, you have been interrupted. I’m just amazed that his still hasn’t been provided as an option to turn of if you desire.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:28:20 +0000

Don’t know if I’ve missed something but you can do this on the 3.0 software. It’s just they’ve moved it to under, settings>messages. Works perfect.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:50:15 +0000

Has this been reversed for ver 3.1? I have just got on board with an iPhone and the option does not appear?

By: Ewik

Ewik — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:56:12 +0000

Just put your phone in AIRPLANE MODE when people are around. The phone can still be played with curious people and you can guarantee no naughty texts or calls will come in. Works as a temp fix at least… Just turn off airplane mode every so often to see what you missed when you are in the bathroom or something.