In iOS, Apple includes an enactment to reply to messages from the Lock Screen. This nonfiction explains wherefore you mightiness privation to disable this function, and however to spell astir doing so.

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In aboriginal versions of Apple's mobile operating system, each that a idiosyncratic could entree connected an ‌iPhone‌'s Lock Screen was the time, date, immoderate notifications, and the camera and flashlight functions. To summation entree to thing else, you had to unlock the ‌‌iPhone‌‌. It was straightforward and secure.

These days, iOS allows for optional entree to respective further features from the Lock Screen, including (but not constricted to) the quality to reply to messages.

The "Reply with Message" diagnostic is surely useful to have, but it does permission unfastened the anticipation of idiosyncratic other replying to your messages erstwhile you permission your ‌iPhone‌ unattended, whether arsenic a prank oregon for immoderate much nefarious reason.

Fortunately, you tin disable the Reply with Message diagnostic by pursuing these steps.

  1. Unlock your ‌iPhone‌ and unfastened the Settings app.
  2. Scroll down and pat Face ID & Passcode (or Touch ID & Passcode).
  3. Enter your passcode astatine the prompt.
  4. Scroll down, and nether "Allow Access When Locked," toggle disconnected the power adjacent to Reply with Message.

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The Reply with Message relation volition beryllium disabled with contiguous effect, and volition nary longer beryllium disposable from the Lock Screen, giving you that added level of security.

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