A Tech Expert Explains How To Keep Your iMessages Private

Have you ever wished your iPhone messages were more private? With so many conversations moving from actual phone chats or FaceTime to texting, you may be wondering just how safe and secure your messages truly are — in which case you aren’t going to love the answer. While it’s true that you can always delete a text that you send, you aren’t promised that the recipient is doing the same, in which case your text can exist for a lifetime on their device (or worse: they can share your text if they’re so inclined). But there’s good news: a tech expert explains how you can make your iMessages private. You’re going to want to hang onto this tip. 

You may think of Notes as a convenient place to create a grocery list or jot down the errands you have to run that day. But the app is so much more than that — it can take the place of text messaging in a way that’s so much more secure and private. 

While Apple is working on a version of Messages that is slated to appear in iOS 16 and will allow you to edit and unsend messages, the feature isn’t here just yet. That means there’s no way to take back a hasty message you might have sent or to prevent the recipient from sharing it with others. Scary thought. Here’s where Notes comes in to save the day. 

It’s possible to write your message in Notes, share it with a recipient, have them send a message back to you, and — the best part — you can delete your message as you go so that there’s no record of it. It’s simple to do and is, by far, one of the safest, more private ways to share texts with someone at the moment.