One thing is truly vital to any private messages appearing on the lock screen: apps like WhatsApp and Messenger, among countless more, include both the sender's name and part of the message's text content on your lock screen, violating private data.

If you want to hide the notifications on Android's Messages app, here's what you should know. You will also find an easy iPhone tip on how to hide messages from a notification on iMessage.

How to Hide Text Message Content in Android

How to Hide Notifications on Messages

Supposedly, you don't want anyone even if it's your close friend to read any notification from your Android phone on the lock screen. Well, if you have a Samsung Galaxy, this could help you out.

How to Hide All Text Messages for Samsung Galaxy

If you are on a Samsung Galaxy running OneUI 6 or later, use the following instructions to conceal the content of your notifications on your lock screen.

1. Open the Settings App: Starting from the Samsung Galaxy, you will navigate to the settings menu.
2. Scroll down and tap on "Notifications."
3. Tap "Lock screen notifications."
4. Select Lock Screen Notifications: Tap "Hide content" under Lock Screen Notifications.

Hide content after unlocking: This feature will ensure that notifications will not appear even after unlocking your phone. You need to disable "Show content when unlocked." This way, no information will appear on your lock screen even after unlocking your phone but it is still showing the lock screen.

With these features, Samsung Galaxy users will successfully keep their notifications private on the lock screen.

Hide Content for Messages on Other Android Devices

For other Android phones like Xiaomi, Realme, Motorola, OnePlus, or OPPO, it's different. This is how you can turn on privacy for the lock screen:

1. Tap Settings: Open up your device to the Settings menu by tapping the Settings icon.
2. Tap Notifications: Tap "Notifications" in the Settings menu.
3. Tap Notifications on lock screen: Tap "Notifications on lock screen" to access lock screen notification options.
4. Select Hide Silent Conversations and Notifications: From the drop-down menu, tap "Hide silent conversations and notifications." This will hide content from your lock screen.
5. Disable Sensitive Notifications: Make sure that you disable "Sensitive notifications." This is to prevent sensitive content from appearing on your lock screen even when the notifications are active.

Note: "Sensitive notifications" is a bit limited as far as customizations are concerned. It's determined by apps as to what is considered sensitive, and not the user. So, if it's appearing anyway, you might end up turning off lock screen notifications altogether.

How to Turn Off iMessage Notifications for iPhone

If you own an iPhone and want messages to remain private, you should know how to hide previews of your messages on the lock screen of your device:

1. Access Settings: On your device, go to Settings then tap on "Notifications."
2. Tap on Messages: In your Notifications menu, tap "Messages."
3. Select Show Previews: Under Messages, you will find the option of "Show Previews," which you need to select.
4. Choose When Unlocked or Never: It will appear as a dropdown menu in which you can either choose "When Unlocked" where message previews will appear only if your iPhone is unlocked and "Never" to hide any message content completely in messages.

These fast changes could help iPhone users keep messages private when receiving messages.

Keeping your notifications private on the lock screen is very important to maintain your privacy, especially for personal messages. Whether you have an Android device or an iPhone, customizing your notification settings is a simple yet effective way to prevent prying eyes from seeing your message content.

After reading this guide, you can take full control over the visibility of your lock screen notifications and ensure that sensitive information remains just for your own eyes.