How to hide iMessage alerts

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Have you ever been at work or school and got an iMessage notification that you didn’t want anyone else to see? Fortunately, there are ways to prevent this from happening. Hiding alerts will stop notifications from a contact, phone number, or group conversation.

This article will show you how to turn off your alerts, so you no longer have to worry about a notification on your phone that you don’t want to be seen.

How to turn alerts on or off on iPhone or iPad

If you want to turn off alerts on an iPhone or iPad, you’re in luck. This is what you need to do:

1. Find the contact or group in the Messages app.
   
2. Slide to the left and ring the bell with the bar.
   
3. To turn it off, swipe over the message and press the bell without the bar.
   

How to turn alerts on or off on Mac

The process is similar on a Mac. Simply follow these steps:

1. Open your messages and then the conversation you want to mute.
   
2. Tap the details button in the top right corner.
   
3. Select or deselect the “Hide alert” check box.
   

How to hide alerts for a contact

You may want to hide single contact alerts on your phone. You can do that too.

1. Open your messages app.
   
2. Choose the contact you want to hide alerts from.
   
3. Tap the contact icon.
   
4. Turn the switch to “Hide Alerts.”
   

Here’s a quicker way to mute a message:

1. Open your messages app.
   
2. Find the contact you want and swipe left.
   
3. Press the bell icon to silence the contact.
   

To unmute a contact, follow the same steps, but simply unmute the contact.

How to hide all alerts for a contact

If you want to hide all alerts for a contact, follow the steps below.

1. Go to “Settings” and then “Focus.”
   
2. Turn on Do Not Disturb, then choose which notifications you want and don’t want from that person.
   

How to manage message notifications

Managing message notifications is very easy. This is how you do it:

1. Go to “Settings” and then “Notifications.”
   
2. Choose “Messages” and then choose what you want to do with notifications for each one.
   

For example, you can set locations and sounds for alerts, set how many times an alert can sound, choose where the message is previewed from, etc.

How to hide alerts for a conversation

If you want to hide alerts for a conversation, the following steps will help you do so:

1. Go to your messages list.
   
2. Press and hold the conversation.
   
3. Select “Hide alerts.”
   

How to turn off lock screen notifications

Having your iPhone locked doesn’t mean alerts won’t appear. If you want to make sure you don’t receive any notifications, you can turn off lock screen notifications by following the instructions below.

1. Go to settings.”
   
2. Select “Notifications.”
   
3. Click the apps you want to hide notifications from.
   
4. Use the switch to turn off notifications. You may receive different types of alerts, if you want to hide all notifications you will have to do so for each option.
   

How to hide text message alerts

With your iPhone, you can hide text message alerts for all messages or just those you want to hide.

How to hide all message notifications

The following steps are to hide all message notifications in iMessage:

1. Go to settings.”
   
2. Select “Notifications.”
   
3. Click “Show Previews.”
   
4. Tap “Never.”
   

How to hide text messages for specific messages

Here’s how to hide specific messages in iMessage:

1. Go to settings.”
   
2. Go to “Messages.”
   
3. Select “Notifications.”
   
4. Select “Show previews.”
   
5. Click “Never.”
   

How to turn off notifications in Notification Center

The notification center is located at the top of the screen. It can be accessed by swiping down on the screen. If you want to turn off these notifications, follow these steps:

1. Go to settings.”
   
2. Click “Notifications.”
   
3. Choose the notification you want to change.
   
4. Click “Allow Notifications” and make sure it is red.
   

How to turn off emergency alerts

You really shouldn’t turn off emergency notifications, as they warn you about flooding, tornadoes, and also Amber Alerts about missing children. But if you want to do it, here’s how to do it:

1. Go to your “Settings” app.
   
2. Go to “Notifications.”
   
3. Select “Government Alerts.”
   
4. Turn off “AMBER,” “Public Safety Alerts,” and “Emergency Alerts.”
   

How to silence emergency alerts

If you want to keep emergency alerts on your phone, but prefer to silence them, follow these steps:

1. Go to settings.”
   
2. Go to “Notifications.”
   
3. Click on “Government Alerts.”
   
4. Click “Emergency Alerts.”
   
5. Turn off “Always Deliver.”

Frequent questions

Why should I hide alerts?

You may want to hide alerts if you belong to a group that receives a lot of new messages. Receiving a lot of notifications can be annoying and can be a big distraction from something else.

What does hiding alerts do?

Your notifications will stop for one person or group and will work for SMS and iMessage messages.

What doesn’t hiding alerts do?

You will receive messages for these conversations, but you will no longer hear the sound and it will not appear on the lock screen. Also, if you use multiple devices, you must follow the steps for each one. The reason is that they will not sync across all your Apple devices.

Hide your shame

Notifications can be annoying and sometimes inconvenient. An alert may sound when you are in an important meeting or at church and cause a disturbance. It’s embarrassing when it happens to you. There are also times when a notification appears on your screen and you prefer it not to appear. Being able to hide iMessage alerts is just one of the great features of iPhones.

Have you used the hide alerts feature? How was your experience? Tell us in the comments p below.