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Xiaomi: Hide Notifications for Hidden Apps

If a hidden app on your Xiaomi phone still shows message previews on the lock screen or in the notification shade, anyone glancing at your phone can read what is inside. This happens because App lock only hides the app icon by default, not its incoming notifications. You can decide separately whether alerts from locked apps stay invisible until you open and unlock them.

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Hide Notifications for Hidden Apps auf Xiaomi

Hiding an app with App lock on Xiaomi only masks its icon in the app drawer. Notifications keep arriving as usual unless you turn off previews separately, so a locked messaging or banking app can still flash a full message on your lock screen.

MIUI splits app hiding and notification hiding into two settings on purpose. This lets you keep receiving alerts for a sensitive app while still hiding its icon, or the opposite: hide the notification content but leave the icon visible.

To stop notification previews for a hidden app, open SettingsAppsApp lockSettings and enable Don't show notifications. Once active, the system withholds message content until you open the app and unlock it with your PIN, pattern, or fingerprint.

Disable the same toggle if you want previews back, for example when you rely on notification badges for a work app you no longer need hidden. This setting applies per app added to App lock, not globally, so check each locked app individually if several of them still show content.

Frequently asked questions

You still get a notification alert, but the sender name and message text are replaced with a generic label like New notification until you open and unlock the app.