Don’t want the new messages and notifications display on your lock screen or want to lock sensitive notifications & secret messages on Android phone so others wouldn’t be able to see them without unlocking the messages or chat app.
Normally when you do not want to receive any notifications from the applications on the phone, you can go to turn off notifications through the app’s settings. By doing so, you will not receive any notifications from the app, and there would be unnecessary to hide or lock the notifications at all. WhatsApp for Android, for example, has the options to disable or turn off notification tone, vibrate, popup notification and light from the app’s settings.
In a related article, we demonstrated how you can lock apps on Samsung Galaxy phones. Following this method, you can lock your messengers and/or other apps on the phone using a pattern or PIN which is separate from your phone screen lock pattern or pass code. It is very helpful when you have a secret conversation with someone using a instant messenger and like to hide them from anyone who needs to use your phone for other purposes, such as your children playing games on your phone. By locking these apps is not efficient, as you may also receive new messages alerts in the Notification panel on the phone. These notifications and messages usually contain the sender name and the message content. To prevent others from peering your private conversation on the phone, you need to lock the notifications as well.
Important Tips: App lockers can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, they can provide an additional layer of security and privacy for users by preventing unauthorized access to sensitive apps and data. On the other hand, app lockers can also have negative effects. For example, they can sometimes cause technical issues, like slowing down your device, causing apps to crash, creating a false sense of security, reducing productivity. When the pattern or password is too complex or you use multiple passwords for different systems, it can be tedious and frustrating in remembering and entering them. What’s worse, you may lock yourself out of your phone or data when you lost and can’t reset these passwords or patterns.
If you can’t find a way to turn off notifications from the app’s settings. The above mentioned security app that we use to lock the apps also offer us such a function to hide notifications, so when a new message arrives, you will be notified, but the sender name and message content is hidden. Check out these easy steps to lock sensitive notifications and secret messages in Notification panel on Android phone using AppLock security and privacy protection app.
Run this app on your Android phone and follow the on-screen steps to set lock pattern or PIN if it is the first time you run it. Then set a security question and answer, security email for lock pattern or PIN recovery. Grant this app permissions required to run properly, like such as device administrator, usage access, display or draw over other apps, auto start, protected apps, etc.
Go to select and lock the messenger app, could it be the stock messages app or third party instant messengers or chat apps. For instance, you can refer to this guide to lock WhatsApp on Android phone. Then tap the lock icon behind Private Notification to protect notification of locked apps.
The feature needs extra permission. You will need to grant it the Notification access permission in order to allow AppLock to read all notifications, including personal information such as contact names and the text of messages you receive. It will also be able to dismiss notifications or trigger action buttons they contain. This will also give the app the ability to turn Do Not Disturb on or off and change related settings. In other words, you are giving up the privacy management to the app.