How do I hide the text message preview in IOS5.0.1.

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How do I hide the text message preview in IOS5.0.1.

What's up All?,

Since upgrading my 4s to 5.0.1 I notice there's no way to hide the text preview on the lock screen. For privacy reasons I don't want this to happen, it's ok if a name comes up but I don't want to see the message. I've been searching the threads and am calling no joy. One suggestion was that if the phone is password locked that it would just show that you have a text and the senders name, nothing more. This isn't the case on my end, I always password lock all my stuff, phone included and I still see the text preview. Under the setttings menu for texting, there's not even an option to turn the preview off, at least not on my phone, there was before.

Has anyone found a way to deal with this? It didn't happen prior to IOS 5.0.1.

Thank you for any and all replies.

MacBook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.6.2), iPhone 4s 32gb White

Posted on Nov 20, 2011 3:56 PM

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AM_Kidd

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Nov 20, 2011 3:58 PM in response to EricB73

If you go into Settings>Notifications>Messages, you can disable the text previews as well as remove message notifications from the lock screen as a whole.

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Nov 20, 2011 8:42 PM in response to AM_Kidd

Color me feeling stupid! I don't recall if I disabled it that way or not when I orignally got the phone, I know on the 3g it was under settings>messages. In either case, you steered me to where I needed to go and got the issue fixed for me and for that, I thank you, I appreciate you're taking the time to help out!

Take care

Eric

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AM_Kidd

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Nov 21, 2011 1:26 PM in response to EricB73

No problem!

I'm glad I could help, especially since iOS 5 made things a little more confusing.

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