While in Notifications, go down your list of apps until you find ‘Messages.’ To ‘completely’ halt your iMessage banners… I imagine I’m not the only one who might be confused by the extra step.)

(He mentioned that detail to me several times. I decided to visit the Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal to gather a little more advice.Īn Apple Genius told me that you also have to individually turn off each app from proactively trying to send you banner notifications on your device. You’ll probably find that it’s defaulted to ‘Always’ Our son doesn’t need to be privy to the Lester family texting stream… Ironically that feature is supposed to be a nice iOS bonus provided by Apple.īut it was clearly time to turn the option off on my iPad. So, this wasn’t really a problem other than an iMessage to my iPhone also showing up on my linked iPad that my son happened to be using. (Plus, it’s probably one of the first texts that he’s encountered.) Yes, he can read now, but he got confused by the style of my wife’s texting banter with me. My wife referenced our son’s name in the text, which is why he mistakenly thought it was written to him. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Minecraft platform. It’s a simple text message banner that popped up at the top of the iPad screen from my wife to me about camp plans for our second grader this summer. (You can probably guess that I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who he will be interacting with when he eventually engages in multiplayer video games online.) I’m a little alarmed, because even though my wife wasn’t at home, she never uses electronic communications with our son and certainly not using something like Minecraft. So, my almost eight-year-old is playing Minecraft on my iPad in the living room, and he turns to me and says, “Mommy is writing me a message!” If your children are starting to read iMessages on your iPad or iPhone that aren’t meant for them, it’s probably time to change the settings in your device.

Phew phew iphone