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How to Disable Message Notifications and Preview on Android Phone

By Michael | Last Updated

Message notifications have two sides. One side is positive, and the other side is negative. On the one hand, message notifications can prompt Android phone owners that there has been a new message coming. On the other hand, these notifications influence the use of mobile phones. So some users may like this feature very much, but some users think they are annoying and would always want to disable these message notifications and previews in order to enjoy services on the their Android phones better.

Are you bored of concessive message notifications and previews? Do you want to know how to turn off text message notifications and previews on your Android phone? If your anwser is yes, please read on. In the following part of this artice, by taking Google Android phone and Huawei Android phone as example, you will be teached how to disable message notifications and previews step by step.

disable message notifications and previews

1. Turn off Show QuickMessage on Google Android Phone

Step 1: Open the Message app on your Google Android phone, click the three-point button on the top right corner in the Messaging window, and then tap the option of Settings to go on.

change message settings on Google Android

Step 2: Browse to Notifications and turn off it. Then all of notifications about messages will be cancelled. Or you can go to the section of QuickMessage and Reply, and disable the feature of Show QuickMessage.

disable show quick message on Google Android

Then your Android phone will not display the QuickMessage pop-up for incoming SMS messages.

2. Turn off Message Notifications and Previews on Huawei Android Phone

Now we will introduce another example (Huawei Honor 6 plus) to show how to turn off messages notifications on common-used android phones.

Step 1: Open the Settings app on the menu of your Huawei Android phone.

Step 2: Locate to the All tab and choose the option of "… More" under the Apps section.

change messages settings on Huawei Android

Step 3: And then you will come to page where you can see three options: Call, Message and Email. Now choose the option of Message to proceed.

Step 4: Click the slider to turn off the feature of Message preview and Pop-up messages respectively under the section of Notifications.

turn off messages notifications and preview on Huawei phone

Tips: If you have completed the above several steps, you won't get notifications for incoming messages and preview these text messages automatically. But if you want to show these message notifications again, just follow steps above to turn it on.

Above are the steps targeting at only Google Android phones and Huawei Android phones. Of course, steps to turn off text message notifications and previews are a little different towards different versions of Android phones and different brands of Android phones. Therefore, if the above steps are not applied to you, you can turn to others for help or search for the methods on the Internet.

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