How can I turn off the home screen preview of SMS/text messages?

You may not want to see the little preview of text messages that turn up on your home screen when a new text (SMS) message comes in. To turn this off, head to your iPhone settings and go to:

iOS 7/8 UPDATE: Turn off text message, SMS and iMessage previews in alerts, banners and Notification Center with the following setting:

Settings -> Notifications -> Messages -> Show Previews -> OFF (gray switch, NOT green)

Turning off 'Show Previews' will disable the text message preview on your iPhone.

You can also use this screen to set other parameters for alerts, including Alert Style.

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ABG replied on July 25, 2008 - 5:03pmPermalink

follow this if you want to turn off the SMS Preview...

http://www.macriot.com/article.php/20080217024456548

CJ replied on August 6, 2008 - 11:11pmPermalink

That doesn't work either. This issue is the silliest BS ever. Apple really needs to get it's act together and fix this. Text notifications should work the same as email!!!

Anonymous replied on August 23, 2008 - 4:40amPermalink

this features is not working on the 2.01 update, it use to work fine on the 1.1.4 firmware but cant get it to work on this new firmware

Anonymous replied on October 19, 2011 - 12:15amPermalink

For those of you who haven't found it somewhere else yet, its:
Settings>notifications>messages and there you can turn off the preview!

frost72 replied on October 22, 2011 - 3:36pmPermalink

well done that was driving me nuts spent two day on net trying to find solution thanks for your help....

frost72 replied on October 22, 2011 - 3:37pmPermalink

well done that was driving me nuts spent two day on net trying to find solution thanks for your help.

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Anonymous replied on October 29, 2011 - 10:30amPermalink

Thank you!!! That was driving me crazy as well.

waqas replied on December 9, 2014 - 12:25amPermalink

Hello
my iphone text message is little disturbed.
when i type message it start typing on the left side instead of right. how i can change the setting. plz tell me

Anonymous replied on October 31, 2011 - 5:07pmPermalink

Thank you. Correct information

Anonymous replied on November 2, 2011 - 12:52amPermalink

Yay this worked!
Don't get why they hv the text preview automatically on. Who wants their messages out on display like that.

Anonymous replied on January 1, 2012 - 11:52pmPermalink

pls help how do you stop the preview texts on the 4S

Anonymous replied on November 2, 2011 - 4:52pmPermalink

thank you sooooo much, I thought I was going to have to deal with multiple SMS alert messages for the rest of my life. Never again!

Anonymous replied on November 8, 2011 - 1:18pmPermalink

Thank you! Couldn't find anywhere else on the net

Tracy replied on November 9, 2011 - 10:16amPermalink

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It was REALLY driving me nuts as well.

Anonymous replied on November 12, 2011 - 6:22pmPermalink

Thank you!!!!!

Anonymous replied on November 13, 2011 - 10:40pmPermalink

THANK YOU!!! That was driving me nuts.. I dont know why Apple thinks that should be open to the public. I would like to keep my conversations private.

Anonymous replied on November 14, 2011 - 4:12pmPermalink

Yessss thank u! U iPhone guru :)

Anonymous replied on November 14, 2011 - 5:28pmPermalink

THANKS!!!

Anonymous replied on November 15, 2011 - 8:06pmPermalink

Thank you!!!!

Lisa replied on November 21, 2011 - 6:54pmPermalink

Thank you, you're a genius - I couldn't find that info anywhere and there seems to be lots of different ways to turn it off depending on which version you are running. That's great to know - thanks again.

serdar replied on November 23, 2011 - 4:38pmPermalink

thank you that has done the tirick for me too

Anonymous replied on November 26, 2011 - 9:42pmPermalink

This was what I was looking for thank you so much !!!

Anonymous replied on November 28, 2011 - 8:38amPermalink

simple, effective , perfect ,,, the kind of fix i like, thanks, it was doing my head in !!!

Anonymous replied on December 5, 2011 - 10:33amPermalink

Thank you, almost got a divorce over that....Stupid message came through and it was a joke but the wifey did NOT take it as one. I had the preview shut off but for some reason they were still showing up.

Anonymous replied on December 28, 2011 - 11:48pmPermalink

thanks so much

MadJack replied on January 27, 2012 - 9:08amPermalink

It still puts out the name of the person sending the text. Is there any way for my phone to notify me that I have a text without showing the actual text and who sent it??

Kelsey replied on October 19, 2011 - 12:18amPermalink

Try this! Worked for me.
Settings> Nofications > Messages

Anonymous replied on October 19, 2011 - 4:49pmPermalink

This REALLY worked on my iPhone 4s:)
Settings>Notifications>Messages> Show Preview OFF

Anonymous replied on October 22, 2011 - 10:47amPermalink

Yes Finally! It worked! This shit was pissing me off! Thanks! (happy dance)

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