How To Hide Notification From iPhone Lock Screen

Smartphones have turned out to be one most used device in this era. We are literally addicted to how the smartphone functions and for all its features. It sometimes amazes people on how can a small device that’s super slim and smart can give us so many options to do in just a touch or two. Simply tapping on a button will take us to a different zone. Thereby we see new models and operating systems of the smartphones are being introduced to the world by many new companies. The best known operating system among all is the Android and the iOS.

Today, we are going to take a look at a change that you can bring forth in the feature of the iOS smartphones. iPhones has turned out to be one of the brand that gives its users with new features every now and then. Though we can only do a limited amount of customization to the iOS, the manual setting itself gives us the best. Okay, let me come to the point. If you are an iphone user and is having a problem with the notifications, where all the notifications get popped up in the screen including some sensitive messages and pins, then you are in the right place to find the solution. As I said before, we still have some options to customize our iphone settings in a way we want it to be like. Well, whereas you can also stop notifications from appearing on the lock screen.



As there are plenty of internal space available in the iOS phones, we download as many apps to our phone as per our needs and liking. But when you do so, you will start getting many notifications and they will keep jumping on your lock screen, even when you aren’t using the phone and it is in lock. In moments like many people around you and your phones reveals all of them the message you get without a warning, you will not actually feel good about it. There can be many personal things that you get. So notifications appearing on the lock screen is not always a good thing. Thereby if you get a solution for this very problem, half of your problems will get solve automatically. You can literally stop notifications from particular apps such as hide notification from Whatsapp and Viber and allow Instagram and Facebook notifications to pop on the lock screen. Whereas doing you will not miss any messages or calls, but they will only not appear on the screen but you will hear the notification ringtone. Sounds to be something worth it, isn’t it? 


So come lets take a look at how to hide sensitive messages from appearing on your lock screen. All you have to do is follow the steps given below.

How To Hide Sensitive Notification

Hide All Notification Preview From Lock Screen

Hiding notification preview in your phone is quite simple process. Once you configure the settings in the right way only the notification which you set to show on lock screen preview will be shown and the rest of the notifications will show once you unlock the device.

Firstly, you have to go to the ‘System Settings’ tab to start the process of hiding the sensitive notifications from lock screen. Then from there you have to click on the ‘Notifications’ option and tap on the ‘Show Previews’.


Thereafter, in the next screen you will have a few settings options as shown below, from the list select the option ‘When Unlocked’.


Now you have to select the particular apps that you doesn’t want the notification on the lock screen. After selecting the apps individually, you have to toggle off the ‘Show On Lock Screen’ option. Continue doing it for all the apps that you wish.


Ones done with all the apps you want, restart the phone and then you will see that the notification from app you chose would be hidden from appearing on the lock screen.


Hide Notification Preview For Individual Apps

There are methods for you to hide notifications in every apps but if you are looking for a way to hide the notifications from popping up only from particular apps, then you can do that too. Sometimes you might have some confidential information or conversations and so you will want to have them private to yourself. They can be either your personal matters or official conversation apps, so in that case, you can override it for the apps that you wish and not for all.

Either you will want to allow some app notifications and hide one or two apps or you will wish to hide all app notifications and allow one app from popping up. This process will very simple and easy to accomplish. To get it done all you have to do is follow the steps provided below.

Firstly go to the 'Settings' tab and head on to the 'Notifications' bar.



Then select the apps that you want to configure and scroll down from the app's notifications settings screen and click on the 'Show Previews' under the options.


Next you have to select your preferences and select one of the option from 'When Unlocked', 'Never' or 'Always'.

If you don’t select custom preferences for an app then it will use the defaults settings that is selected for all the apps.

That’s all, now if you follow doing the process you would be able to easily stop notifications on the lock screen from particular apps that you think is not supposed to be read by others. This is a method that can be done manually without the help of anyone.

I hope this guide was useful for you to safeguard you important notifications from others by locking them from not appearing on the lock screen.
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