Text message shows at reception

Even if im not using the phone, when i receive a text message, it lights up and anyone can read it.in the options, preview, i selected "none".
i have an iphone 3G, in the earlier model, selecting that showed only the sender not the message.can anything be done ?

No - this was changed with 2.2 and not sure why. The text preview will not be shown when the iPhone is not being used - when the iPhone is asleep or the screen is off when show SMS preview is disabled, but not when the iPhone is being used.

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I have 2 phones on my iTunes account, why are text messages showing on the second phone when sent from the first

I have 2 phones on my iTunes account, why are text messages showing on the second phone when sent from the first phone?

it's meant to work like that
so if you receive a message on your iphone you also get it on your ipad or ipod touch
to avoid it use separate appleID for each device
or turn off imessage on 1 or both devices in their settings
but that will not fix the issue that 2 devices using the same appleID will never be able to facetime eachother
the appleID is a unique handle for 1 user only

HT5538 My brother and I share an iTunes account and his text messages show up on MY macbook. His texts don't show up on my phone though. how can i delete his number off my iMessage on my laptop?

My brother and I share an iTunes account and his text messages show up on MY macbook. His texts don't show up on my phone though. how can i delete his number off my iMessage on my laptop?

These are iMessages only.
He activated iMessage on his iPhone with the same Apple ID that you activated iMessage with on your Mac.
On your Mac, go to Messages preferences.
Under the Settings selection for your Apple ID, deselect your brother's phone number for you can be reached for messages at.

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Why are my text messages showing up on my wife's iPhone 6 and her test messages showing up on my IPhone 6?

its because you guys are using the same Apple ID on both devices , when you use the same it connects to iCloud/iMessages so when ever you get a text on any other iPhone with there iMessages on its going to show on both devices because its the same apple ID that you are using for your iMessages , you can fix that buy gating a new apple ID for one of you ,ore go to your system preferences then go in to your iMessages remove your email from there make shore its only your number on there ,but the best why is to get another Apple ID.

TS4097 we have multiple users in our family and multiple devices all sharing one itunes account. i think we are all synced to one icloud account and it is a nightmare....contacts lost, text messags showing up on multiple devises etc. how do we fix this?

We have our family sharing one itunes account. we have 3 iphones, 2 macbook airs, 2 ipads and 1 mac. I am not sure how we even got started on the icloud but somehow we did and everything is a mess. The ipads are showing the text messages, the contacts are all combined, the apps that my duaghter downloads are appearing on all devices. how do we fix this so contacts are not shared, messages are not shared and apps are not automatically synced to all devises?

You have two different issues going on. You are getting each other's messages because you are sharing the Same Apple ID for iMessage. This can be corrected by going to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive on add the devices and doing one of the following:
Either uncheck the email address shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at" on all of your devices; or
If you want to continue to receive iMessages at this email address on one of your devices, on all of the other ones tap the Apple ID at the top, sign out, then sign back in using a different Apple ID (so all devices will be using a different Apple ID for iMessage). Note: you can continue to share an Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and App stores. It does not need to be the same as the ID you are using for iMessage, FaceTime and other services.
The second issue is that you are sharing the same iCloud account on your devices. When you do this any data you sync with the shared iCloud account such as contacts is merged and will appear on all devices connected to the account. To fix this you both need to have separate iCloud accounts (you can continue to share the same Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and app stores).
First decide which device(s) will be keeping the current iCloud account. On the one(s) that will be changing accounts, if you have any photos in photo stream that in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else that you want to keep on the device(s), save these to the camera roll by opening the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tapping Edit, then tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share and tap Save to Camera Roll.
Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. (This will only delete the account from this device, not from iCloud. The device(s) that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.) When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On [iDevice]. Next, set up a new iCloud account using a separate Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom). Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge. This will upload the data to the new account. Repeat this process for all the devices that you need to migrate to new accounts.
When finished, to un-merge the data in your accounts you will have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the other person's contacts from your account, and vice versa).

Text messages showing as number@vtext, can't make it stop

I posted this in the Android section but realized that may not be the right place.
Day 1
My phone was messed up earlier today so I was sending text messages to my daughter from the verizon website. Now that I have my phone sorted out text messages from her show up as [email protected] We are sending text messages hand set to hand set, not using the web anymore. It is so annoying, not only that but it actually duplicates the messages. The body shows up with (message) message. My replies to her show as both my regular contact and vtext.com, alternating not at the same time. I want it back to normal. Does anyone have any ideas?
Day 2
Ugh, if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. This is so irritating. I went through my phone and my daughters, deleted all of our messages to each other, deleted each other as contacts. Cleared the cache in our phones. Re-added each of us as contacts and it is still doing it! So instead of messages from her showing up with her name they show with [email protected] and it duplicates the body of the message. If she says 'do you want to go to lunch' it shows up as (do you want to go to lunch) do you want to go to lunch. It is so annoying. This continues to happen even after we start new messages to each other, being sure that we select our mobile numbers. We are not entering the vtext anywhere. Someone help me make it stop! This is not happening with any other contacts, only her.
Thanks for any help.

Laura,
Make sure you have deleted all contact information from BOTH phones, and all messages from each other on BOTH PHONES. Then restart the phones. It's important that there are no remaining messages or contact information when you try to start anew.
THEN, send a text to each other using only the manually entered phone number. If that is successful (it comes from the phone number), then add the phone number and contact information from the message.
It seems it's still seeing the vtext messaging somehow, so it's critical that information is GONE and you are starting totally new with the phone number only.
HTH,

NEED HELP - Text Messages showing up hours later and no more notifications

Up until about 3 weeks ago, I was very in love with my S3 as it worked perfectly. Then about 3 weeks ago (March 12 or so) I started receiving my text messages hours or days after they were sent. We then went to Canada for a week and I had no mobile data. The issue with my messaging continued, except now I rarely get a notification when I get them. I have been back a week and it has gotten worse. The messages seem to come all at one time once or twice a day, there is no notification when they come, and I am occasionally missing messages. It does not matter who the messages are from. I have rebooted the phone multiple times. I have tried using Handcent SMS instead of the default messaging application to no avail.
Is there something going on with Verizon Text messages?
Is there another place to go besides the following to set notifications?
Messaging
Menu
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Check everything, Default Ringtone, and Alert Once
Since this started before we went to Canada, I do not think that was the cause. Although, there were several times that I got the message Updating Sim Card information when we were there and I had the wrong time a lot of the time.
Please Help!!

So today I go to send a text and get one from last night. Don't get the sound but it did show up on my notification bar. I sent the text and realized my clock was off by an hour. I went into settings, Date/Time and both are set to Automatic, but for some reason it is showing Central Time Zone. I uncheck Automatic Time Zone and set it to Mountain Time Zone, exit Settings, and perform a Shut-Down. Pull the battery, Sim Card, and SD Card and reboot the phone. Go back into Date/Time and reset it Automatic. This time it stays in the Mountain Time Zone.
Could I possibly need a new Sim Card?
Please Help. I really do not have time to go wait in line for an hour at the Verizon store for them to tell me that they will have to look into it and then not get back to me for a few weeks, if at all.
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Updated to iOS 5 and now photos sent with text message show as sent, but are not received to an iPhone that has not been updated.

Updated to iOS 5 and tried sending a message with a phot to an iPhone that has not been updated. My message shows as sent, but neither the text or photo are received. Text alone works fine.

This is being caused by using the same Apple ID for iMessage. To fix this you have two choices:
On all but one of the phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with a different ID. Note: you can still share the same ID for purchasing in Settings>iTunes & App Stores; or
On all of the phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and uncheck the email address(es) shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at".

TS2634 My text messages show up on my husband's iPad. How do I disable that?

My text messages arre showing up on my husband's iPad. How do I disable that?

Are you sharing apple id with your husband, if so that is the reason for this.
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IPhone 4S - Text Messages Showing From Phone Number

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TS2755 My husband and I have iPhone 4S's. For some reason, my text messages show up on his phone. We share the Apple ID, and my settings are such that I send and receive from my phone number and email address. How do we correct this?

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Text Messages show email instead of phone number..Help!

When I send a text, it is ID as coming from my email instead of my phone number or the contact info. I have already gone into settings, messages, receive at, caller id and my phone number is checked...but still having the problem...any suggestions?????

go back into settings at the received at and log out of your email and see if that works.

My text messages show number not contact name

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Basically, you turned off iMessage by signing out.
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