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How to Hide Notifications From Lock Screen on Android Phone

By: Salman Patwegar

While Lock Screen Notifications make it easy to keep track of missed calls and messages, they can end up being a privacy issue. Hence, this article providing you with the steps to Hide Notifications From Lock Screen on Android Phone.

Hide Notifications From Lock Screen on Android Phone

Notifications On Lock Screen on Android

Notifications appearing on the Lock screen of Android phone are designed to provide you with an easy way of seeing whether you missed an important Call or Message without actually having to unlock your Phone.

While this feature is convenient and cool, it also allows others to see your Notifications and may tempt someone to pick up your phone and go through all your notifications and guess the content of your messages.

In order to solve this privacy issue, you can either block Notifications completely from appearing on the Lock Screen of your Android Phone or only Hide the content of notifications.

Related: How to Block Notifications From Any App on Android Phone

Hide Notifications From Lock Screen on Android Phone

The steps below will show you how to hide notifications from lock screen on most Android Phones.

1. Open Settings on your Android phone.

2. On the Settings screen, tap on Sounds and notifications option

Sounds and Notifications Tab in Settings on iPhone

3. On the next screen, tap on When Device is locked (See image below)

When Device is Locked Option on Android Phone

4. On the slide-up menu that appears, tap on Do not show notifications option (See image below).

Do Not Show Notifications on Lock Screen on Android Phone

This will disable all Notifications from appearing on the Lock Screen of your Android Phone. Another option is to tap on Hide Content on the slide-up menu.

This will only disable the Content in Notifications, while allowing all Notifications to appear on the Lock Screen of your Android Phone.

Hide Content From Lock Screen Notifications on Android Phone

Hide Notifications From Lock Screen on Samsung Phones

The steps to Hide Notifications from Lock Screen on Samsung Galaxy phones running Android 6.0 or above are also quite similar.

1. Open Settings on your Samsung phone.

2. On the Settings screen, tap on Lock Screen and security option

Lock Screen and Security Tab in Settings on Android Phone

3. On the Lock Screen and Security screen, tap on Notifications on lock screen option (See image below)

Notifications on Lock Screen Tab on Samsung Phone4. On the next screen, tap on Content on lock screen option (See image below)

Content on Lock Screen Tab on Samsung Phone

5. On the slide-up menu that appears, tap on Do not show notifications option.

Do Not Show Notifications on Lock Screen on Android Phone

6. In case you only want to Hide the content of notifications, then tap on Hide Content option in the slide-up menu.

Hide Content From Lock Screen Notifications on Android Phone

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