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Nov 2, 2011
Rodney Potter
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How to protect your SMS messages privacy

Lockmessages tweak

These days privacy protection becomes more and more important as our work and private life gets ever more connected and online. If you receive a text message everyone in your vicinity will know it instantly and this tends to cause unwanted curiosity. Luckily time after time jailbreak community finds out ways to help iPhone users in various ways.

This time we want to showcase another small but essential jailbreak tweak. LockMessages enables iPhone users to adjust notification alerts you get on the lock screen. You can change the notification so the name of the sender becomes neutral and without meaning to curious eyes. Additionally you can easily lock your native iOS messages app which is another line of defence against privacy intruders. LockMessages is available to iPhone users who have installed Cydia on their devices. To get Cydia you will need to jailbreak your iPhone first.

LockMessages is a available for download in BigBoss repository and the cost is only $0.99. If you do care about the privacy of your iPhone messaging you could get a lot from this small jailbreak tweak. After you download and install this tweak you wont get any new icons on your already crowded SpringBoard. Instead you can adjust the tweak from the usual settings app. Please note: LockMessages is compatible only with latest Apple iOS 5. So if you already didn’t upgrade and you want to use this jailbreak tweak, you will have to jump over and get iOS 5 on your iPhone first. To upgrade simply turn on iTunes and chose to check for upgrades to upgrade your device.

 

How to protect your SMS messages privacy

 

These days privacy protection becomes more and more important as our work and private life gets ever more connected and online. If you receive a message everyone know you have a message and this causes unwanted curiosity. Lucklily time after time jailbreak community finds out ways to help iPhone users in various ways.

 

This time we want to showcase another small but essential jailbreak tweak. LockMessages enables iPhone users to adjust notification alerts you get on the lock screen. You can change the notification so the name of the sender becomes neutral and without meaning to curious eyes. Additionally you can easily lock your native iOS messages app which is another line of defense against privacy intruders. LockMessages is availabel to iPhone users who have installed Cydia on their devices. To get Cydia you will need to jailbreak your iPhone first.

LockMessages is a available for download in BigBoss repository and the cost is only $0.99. If you do care about the privacy of your iPhone messaging you could get a lot from this small jailbreak tweak.

After you download and install this tweak you wont get any new icons on your already croded SpringBoard. Instead you can adjust the tweak from the usual settings app. Please note: LockMessages is compatible only with latest Apple iOS 5. SO if you already didn’t upgrade and you want to use this jailbreak tweak you will have to jump over and get iOS 5 on your iPhone.

 

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