Tired of people looking over your shoulder and reading your text messages don’t want anyone who happens to look at your phone to be able to read your messages? if so you’ve come to the right place. As I will show you how you can hide messages on your iPhone.
We’ll guide you in four different ways you could hide text messages on your iPhone device. So let’s get started.
How to Hide Messages on iPhone – Keep Them Safe
Method 1: The first and easiest way to hide text messages on iPhone is to delete messages after reading them you can choose to delete the entire conversation or delete single messages, this way if someone opens your messaging
app no messages will be there.
Method 2: Another way to hide text messages is to disable text message preview. In your notifications, you may see part or all of the message depending on its length appeared on your screen when you get a notification. If you want to increase privacy you can disable text message preview in your notification settings to do so
- Open your iPhone settings and select notifications.
- Then tap on messages, scroll down and tap show previews
- Finally tap off.
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Method 3: Another good method you can use to hide text messages is to use the invisible ink effect.
If you’re sending a message to someone else who has an Apple device. You’ll be sending an iMessage rather than an SMS or MMS text message.
iMessage has a cool new option that
allows you to send your messages using invisible ink where the recipient has to drag their finger over the message to view it. If you’d like to send a message using AI messages invisible ink feature, here’s how to do so
- Tap the messages icon to launch the messaging app on your iOS device.
- in the top right corner of your screen tap that icon to open a new conversation window.
- at the top of your screen type in the phone number email address or name, if the person is saved as a contact in your device that you’d like to send an iMessage to.
- you’ll see another text box appear above your keyboard tap the text box and type in what you’d like your message to say.
- beside the text box where you typed your message, you’ll see a blue arrow button tap and hold the button to reveal more message options, when the additional options appear on your screen tap invisible ink, this will make it so that when you send your message it will appear pixelated until the recipient taps their finger on it to reveal what your message says.
- when you’re ready to send your message tap the blue arrow to send it off.
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Method 4: Another way you can use to hide text messages on your iPhone is to download an application that allows you to restrict access to certain apps while you can add a passcode lock to your device itself, You may want the additional security of a password on your messages specifically.
If you want to install an app that will help you restrict access to your messages you can search on the App Store to find one that suits your needs. These are the four best ways to hide text messages on iPhone.
There are some other tips you need to keep in mind when trying to hide your text
Messages.
- To prevent people from using your iPhone without your permission, add a passcode lock to your device, this will make it so that you have to enter a number code to gain access to anything on your device. You can do this by opening your settings then going to touch ID and passcode.
- Even if you have a passcode lock on your device be careful with who is able to access your device don’t leave it sitting out somewhere where someone could potentially pick it up and try to use it.
- keep in mind that even when you delete a message or full conversation from your iPhone the other person or people in the conversation could still have a record of those messages on their own device. Deleting a message on your device does not delete the message on the other end of the conversation.
- If you want a more secure way to communicate with people try using a more private messaging app than the one that comes built-in to your iPhone. Snapchat for example is a great communication app in which all messages are automatically deleted after being opened.
That’s everything you need to know about hiding text messages on your iPhone device.
