Comments on: iPhone 3.0: Now With Text Message Privacy

By: José Me

José Me — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:43:58 +0000

Apple please please change the setting where we can also hide the text MSG sender. Just the content is not enough

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:11:16 +0000

When will we have privacy i want to be able to lock apps and my msg i want the option to possibley lock my phone and put seprate codes on everything else on my phone! When?

By: Gi

Gi — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:07:04 +0000

Unbelievable. Total lack of Privacy, I just don’t understand how this was possible on Apple’s minds, but I do hope further updates will solve this issue, allowing to totally hide things popping on the screen when it’s locked. This is software, so it’s quite easy to solve it, without relying on third parties, and extra money, to solve it.
Mr. Jobs, please… do it!

By: Alexia

Alexia — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:34:14 +0000

After the update my text messages automatically delete. If I close the text & open it back up it’s gone. {I have the first generation}

By: Jeffylube

Jeffylube — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:45:12 +0000

I can assure you this feature was available in 2.0, which is when I found it, so it could have been available sooner. The option to turn it on used to be under Passcode Lock which was completely confusing. I only found it when I went to add a lock on my phone, and low and behold it gave me to the option to turn off SMS preview text. On 3.0 this option has been moved and is what you’ve recently discovered.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:13:22 +0000

In one of Apple’s earlier updates (2.1, I believe), turning off SMS preview resulted in a simple pop-up of “Text Message Received” or something like that (no sender name). A later update (2.2 or 2.2.1) reverted the behavior to showing the name but not the text message. Better than nothing, but like “Irritated…”, I don’t even want the senders name showing up.

By: ren

ren — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:30:41 +0000

Irritated iphone user,
change the names of the people whom yu dont want others to know ab. just keep yu a list of the peoples real names with their cover up name on the side. for example i use damarcia for damarcus! =) hope ive helped!

By: iPhoneChris

iPhoneChris — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:12:02 +0000

@Irritated Understandable. Thanks for your comment. I agree, it would be nice to hide the name, too.

By: Irritated iphone user

Irritated iphone user — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:33:49 +0000

I’m sorry but this has NOT been resolved. I updated based on your misleading article and discovered that it still shows a text has come in and from who – it just doesn’t show the text content. Which, by the way, you could do before by putting on the pass-code lock. This is not good enough. It should be OFF entirely. I do not want it known who I am getting messages from. Plain and simple.

By: iPhoneChris

iPhoneChris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:46:39 +0000

@Kelly Didn't realize, thanks Kelly!