MacOS – What does ⌛︎ Preview Hidden in macOS Messages app mean

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One of my contacts with whom I exchange iMessages, has started showing ⌛︎ Preview Hidden in the macOS Messages app just below their name.

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Interestingly, this is not shown in the Messages app on my iPad and iPhone, just the Mac. Also, I have not enabled Hide Alerts for the said contact. I am able to communicate with them normally, and I also receive the notifications for any messages that they send.

My questions are:

  1. What does ⌛︎ Preview Hidden mean?

  2. What causes it to get enabled?

  3. How to remove/disable it?

  4. Does it apply to all the devices linked to my Apple ID and where Messages are enabled?

I use Messages in iCloud, and I am running current up-to-date version of OS on all the devices that I use (macOS Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287) on Mac and iOS/iPadOS 13.4.1 on iPhones/iPads).

Best Answer

I had this too and this seemed to give me what I wanted (the preview): System Preferences->Notifications->Messages->Show Notification Preview->set to Always. Then Quit Messages and restart.

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