How Has iPhone’s SMS Preview Gotten You Into Trouble?

Due to this horrible feature on my iPhone I refuse to let anyone use my phone anymore. I am a chronic texter and I have the most x-rated and crude convos on there. Here are some examples of what has happened to me until I finally decided that I would not let anyone see my phone anymore.
1) My father was looking at pictures I had taken at a family barbecue when my boyfriend text me “You were so great last night, how about a repeat?” My father couldn’t look me in my eye for months!
2) My boyfriend was looking at youtube videos and I got a text that was an innocent but crude joke from a male friend. Now I’m dealing with my boyfriend thinking I’m cheating just becuz of a chain text message that he happened to glance at!
3) A friend and I were texting back and forth about stuff while I was shopping with another girl friend of mine. The girl I was with asked to use my friend to look up something on the internet while I changed. When I came out the dressing room, she looked hurt and on the verge of tears! I later found out that while I was dressing, the girl I was texting started writing about the girl I was with and it was kind of cruel. Needless to say I got in huge arguements from both girls over that!

PLEASE APPLE, FIX THIS SECURITY GLITCH IN THE IPHONE!

Thank you.
-E

WHOOPS! Typo. That last occurence didn’t make sense…..

The girl I was with asked to use my PHONE (not friend, lol) to look up something on the internet while I changed.

Haha, thanks for sharing Nyprg. Three relationships harmed just because of this privacy issue! This is exactly the kind of stuff we shouldn’t have to worry about.

I totally agree! I found this site because I was looking for away to defeat the text pop-ups. I have a super jealous and paranoid girlfriend who is always looking around the apartment for clues. I have to make sure my mac pro is logged out in case i fall asleep or something cause she will invariably dig up stuff that is primarily on the innocent side but hard to explain. Just today, I began to receive texts from a female friend who is my muse; nothing sexual but she is special to me. Needless to say such a relationship does not jive with my girlfriend so I prefer to keep our dealings private. Luckily, my iPhone was not on the bedside table as my muse began texting. “When can we hang out?” and “Let’s get drinks.” were the messages popping up on the screen. I had to answer them, then delete them immediately, all the while telling my girlfriend that it was a male friend. Apple.. please, please fix this. I know you can do it. I used to work for you, now please do something for me (and every other iPhone user).

Yeah my Iphone was plugged in its docking station on my desk and the wife seen a text popup from my mistress telling me how hard she was gonna suck my ****!

Luckily i didn’t have the number stored so i said it was another stupid prank text from poland or such place

Funny and embarrasin stories But has anyone found an application that will remove these popups? I already disabled it through the password thingie posted by OP, but like you all say, when people are borrowing you iphone. Cmon you creative souls! make me an app!

I for one like the SMS ‘pop up’ feature. It’s sort of like a preview to see if I need to act on it w/o having the need to read the entire message.

You can get the caterpillar app. It lets you disable the popup.

Thanks for pointing that out, Limited Edition iPhone. I’ve updated this post as well as written a review of the Caterpillar app.

My mom borrowed my phone to take some pictures wen my friend texted me about the crazy weekend we had at my house while my parents were gone. Now I’m grounded and my parents don’t trust me

I txt all the time and I cantleave my phone anywhere cuz of the stupid text preveiw. I talk to my friend a lot and we get bored and start writing stupid stuff just fort the hell of it. Well when my mom was looking at my pics he sent “up the ass hole reeal good” u can imagine the confusion ……

not really an embarassing story about myself but my fiance, well we both have iphones, jailbroken of course, and we both do a fair bit of texting. That does include to each other while we are sitting next to each other lol. Well she got a very rude and crude text from her ex husband…. needless to say i thought it was my phone cuz both were sitting on the end table and looked…. only read the first 4 words and didnt need to go on… “i love you baby”…. now at this point i was thuroughly upset. I confronted her without reading the rest of the message…. this is how the message really went “i love you baby, but i know we can not be together. i will always love you” well i was quite embarassed especially after seeing the fact that the message she sent to him before that read “im sorry but i will never be with you again, i love my fiance. he makes me more happy than any other man ive ever known”. So to end this little story let me now say, neither phone leaves our persons…. and we try REAL HARD not to look at the others unless invited or interested in the current convo.

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my daughter likes to listen to my ipod or watch you tube and i am always concerned that i will get a text saying something i definitely dont want her to know mom is doing….. if you know what i mean.

Not funny at all!
My wife was using my phone to call our children and a text popped up “Babe, you were great yesterday, I miss you so much!”. Obviously, it wasn’t from my wife! Created a lot of problems, but finally worked them out. Wish I would have known how to turn that off early.
Thanks Apple! Should have known better

My friend’s sister-in-law spent the night (innocently) on my sofa after we had both been to a party. The next day, she was flicking through the photos in my iphone when a message from said friend arrived, reading ‘ Did xxx get her gob around your bollocks last night?’. I’m not sure who was more embarrassed!

We phoned my friend straight away, and he managed to deflect some of the damage, saying he was about to send an equally crude message to her! Cheers for that one, Apple!

I have a girlfriend who doesn’t understand that it is normal to text message with both males & females. When a message popped up that an ex-girlfriend of mine sent to me and about 50 other people announcing where she was going to be bartending that night, lets just say that didn’t go over too well.

PLEASE make the default to NOT preview it, and make it an option to show it.. DUH

Hey ppl,
I suppose the sex related ones can get into trouble but my story is fairly embarrasing-
I had installed a few new apps on my phone n was showing them off to my girlfriends mother when the message “Do u want ta c*m in my mouth or what?” appeared. I was staying in my girlfriends house that night and i had just got home from work. She had went straight upstairs with the knowledge that I was ta follow her up for sex and then she sent me that message not knowing i was talkin her mam. So as her mam was playin with one of the apps that filthy message popped onto the screen. It was a brief message obviously so she read it.

Just to let you know her mam is a very stern and highly strung sort of person so she handed me back the phone in disgust. I knew immediately that something was wrong when it beeped and I got that heart stopping feeling where you know you are at fault so I just put my head down and walked away.
It was very awkward.

But just to let you know I knew about this feature in Settings>>General>>Passcode Lock>>Show SMS Preview but the fuckin thing doesnt work and I dont know why. Im running 1.1.4 firmware if anyone1 interested!!

So anyway, APPLE you are a pack of bastards for having this feature and it should be removed.

Tommy, since your iPhone is Jailbroken you should think about getting the Caterpillar app. It’s $20 for 6 months, but that’s a small price to pay to save you from that kind of embarrassment again.

my step daughter was using my iPhone when Mike sent me one of his classic “I boinked this chick last night” messages. Well, the first few words aroused her curiousity so she clicked the button and got to see all of the nasty details. This, along with no pictures in messages and no text forwarding is a deal breaker for me! My old Moto flip had a security setting that forced someone using your phone to enter a passcode to check ANY message. I really miss that feature!