Can You Have Secret Conversations on iPhone?
You Can Lock or Hide Messages, and Even Turn off Message Previews on iPhone So That Your Personal Information Stays Private. There Are Even Some Secret Text...
You can lock or hide messages, and even turn off message previews on iPhone so that your personal information stays private. There are even some secret text messaging apps for iPhones.
How do you hide conversations on iPhone?
How to hide messages from individual senders
- Open the message(s) you don't want displaying as the chain continues.
- Tap near the top of the screen, by the icon of a face (or the person's picture).
- On the taskbar that appears, tap the "i" for "info." Tap "info." William Antonelli/Business Insider.
- Toggle "Hide Alerts" on.
Can you have secret messages on iMessage?
Along the potentially long and twisty path through the internet, the message is securely locked, and even Apple can't decrypt an iMessage. So, in a way, every iMessage sent from an iPhone is secret. However, text messages to an Android phone are sent as an SMS text and MMS media, formats that don't support encryption.
Marcus Vance is a cybersecurity auditor and technology writer dedicated to educating the public about online safety, data privacy regulations, enterprise security, and emerging cyber threats.
