WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Stop people seeing your messages

Ever passed your phone to a friend and instantly panicked about the WhatsApp messages they might see come through? Yeah, we haven’t either.

For those who have, you can turn off message previews on iOS so only the contact’s name will appear, rather than their life story, or you can turn off notifications altogether.

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iOS: Settings > Notifications > Toggle off Show Preview / Settings > Notifications > Toggle off Show Notifications.

Android offers a range of notification controls. Within the WhatsApp app itself, you can turn off high-priority notifications – those that will pop up at the top of the screen.

Or you can control the notifications at a system level to keep details private or remove them completely.

Android: Settings > Notifications > Toggle off Use high priority notifications.