How to hide notifications on the iPhone lock screen
Notifications on a locked iPhone screen with text and other messages, app updates, and other information can be helpful, but they're not always secure if someone other than the owner can access the phone.
This article details how to remove notifications from the lock screen, or make the notifications themselves show, but have their content hidden. It can also be useful: What to do if you do not receive iPhone notifications.
Delete notifications on a locked iPhone
To hide notifications on the iPhone lock screen, just follow these simple steps:
- Go to Settings - Notifications.
- Select the app you want to hide notifications for, such as Messages (unfortunately, to completely remove notifications from the lock screen, you will have to do it for each app separately).
- Uncheck the "Locked screen" option.
- From now on, notifications from this app will not show while iPhone is locked. By returning to the previous screen, you can do the same with other applications.
In case you want to leave information about the notifications and which applications have sent them, but you require that the text and other content of these notifications not be displayed, you can do so from the home screen of Settings - Notifications.
Just tap on "Show thumbnails" at the top and select the "No blocking" option.
And an additional note: For the security of a locked phone, it may be convenient to deactivate Siri on the locked screen, simply by going into Settings - Siri and find and deactivate the option: "Siri with screen lock" and, in "Siri Suggestions", deactivate "On screen blocked up".