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OnePlus: Show or Hide Lock Screen Notifications

If your OnePlus lock screen shows full message previews and app icons for anyone standing next to you, private content can leak before the phone is even unlocked. Oxygen OS lets you dial that down, from full notification text to nothing at all. Pick the wrong option and you either expose messages on the lock screen or miss alerts you actually wanted to catch.

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VersionAndroid 10 · Oxygenos 10

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Lock Screen Notification Display Options auf OnePlus

OnePlus phones running Oxygen OS separate two things: whether a notification arrives at all, and how much of it appears on the lock screen. The lock screen visibility is controlled by a dedicated system setting, independent from each app's own notification permission.

By default the lock screen can show full previews, meaning sender names, message text and even image thumbnails. That is convenient at home but risky on public transport or in shared offices, since anyone glancing at the screen sees the content.

To change this, open SettingsApps & notificationsNotificationsNotifications on lockscreen. From there choose Show important and other notifications for full previews, Show important notifications only to hide less critical alerts, or Don't show notifications to keep the lock screen clean.

Choosing Don't show notifications does not silence the phone. Sounds, vibrations and the notification bar still work as usual, only the lock screen preview disappears.

If you only want to hide previews for one sensitive app rather than everything, check that app's own notification settings first, since some apps offer their own content-hiding toggle that works alongside this system-wide setting.

Frequently asked questions

No. Choosing Don't show notifications only removes the visual preview from the lock screen. Sound, vibration and the notification shade still behave normally once the phone is unlocked.

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