Anyone who picks up or glances at your phone will be able to see notifications appearing on the Lock Screen of your iPhone. You will find below the steps to Hide Notifications from iPhone Lock Screen.
Hide Notifications from iPhone Lock Screen
In general, most Apps that you have the permission to send you notifications will be able to display notifications on the Lock Screen of your iPhone.
While allowing Lock Screen Notifications is a convenient way to keep track of messages received on your iPhone, this convenience can also lead to privacy issues.
For example, people around you might be able to guess the content of your messages and who you are in contact with by taking a look at the Lock Screen Notifications on your iPhone.
Also, there is the possibility of someone being tempted to pick up your unattended iPhone and start scrolling through your Lock Screen messages, out of curiosity or other reasons.
To fix this privacy issue, you may want to Hide Notifications from iPhone Lock Screen.
Steps to Hide Notifications from iPhone Lock Screen
Unfortunately, there is no universal setting in iPhone that can prevent all the Apps from showing Lock Screen Notifications on your iPhone.
Hence, you will have to repeat the following steps for all the individual Apps that you want to prevent from displaying notifications on iPhone Lock Screen.
1. Open Settings on your iPhone and tap on Notifications.
2. On the Notifications screen, tap on the App for which you want to Hide Lock Screen Notifications.
3. On the next screen, turn OFF the option for Lock Screen located under “ALERTS” section.
After this, you will no longer see Notifications on the Lock Screen of your iPhone from this particular App (Messages App in this case).
As mentioned above, there is no universal setting on iPhone that can disable Lock Screen Notifications for all Apps.
Hence, you will have to repeat the above steps for other Apps that you do not want to show Lock Screen Notifications.
Hide Message Previews on iPhone Lock Screen
In case you do not like the idea of disabling Lock Screen Notifications, you can get some privacy by disabling Message Previews on Lock Screen.
This will display only the Senders Name on the Lock Screen of your iPhone.
1. Open Settings on your iPhone and tap on Notifications.
2. On the Notifications screen, tap on Show Previews option.
3. On the next screen, tap on When Unlocked option.
This will disable Message previews and show only the sender’s name in Lock Screen Notifications of your iPhone.