The fix for that is to mute notifications. If you’re not familiar with this, read on to learn how to mute an individual or group chat and what happens when you do.
How To Mute And Unmute On WhatsApp
When you mute someone on WhatsApp, you essentially mute notifications from them. This can be for either an individual or group chat. The process is fairly simple and will block notifications from the muted chats. On WhatsApp, you’re able to mute notifications from an individual or a group chat, and even mute status updates.
Mute An Individual Or Group Chat
Muting a group chat is the same as muting a single chat. The process is pretty quick too, here’s how to do it: Here’s a video showing you how to mute a WhatsApp chat:
Unmute An Individual Or Group Chat
As you’ve seen, muting notifications from an individual or group chat on WhatsApp is easy. It’s also easy to unmute notifications from them too. Here’s how to unmute notifications for chats on WhatsApp: Here’s a video showing you how to unmute an individual or group chat on WhatsApp:
Mute WhatsApp Status Updates
Unlike WhatsApp conversations, you don’t get notifications for status updates. However, they still show up when you’re going through your status list. If you want, you can mute a status update on WhatsApp so it isn’t displayed with the other statuses. Here’s how to do it: Here’s a video showing you how to mute WhatsApp statuses:
Unmute WhatsApp Status Updates
Muting WhatsApp statuses is pretty easy. Undoing it is even easier. Here’s how to unmute a WhatsApp story: Here’s a video demonstrating how to unmute a person’s WhatsApp stories:
What Happens When You Mute Someone On WhatsApp?
Muting A WhatsApp Conversation Is Different Than Muting WhatsApp Stories
As you saw in the two previous sections, there are different ways to mute a WhatsApp conversation and a WhatsApp story. You can mute someone’s WhatsApp stories without muting their conversation and vice versa.
They Won’t Know You’ve Muted Them
Muting on WhatsApp is a very discreet feature. When you mute notifications from someone on WhatsApp, they don’t know they’ve been muted. This is because, unlike blocking, muting a person on WhatsApp only stops their notifications from popping up on your phone. They can still see your information such as status updates, profile pictures, and other information. Muted WhatsApp contacts can also still send messages to you and you can still send messages to them.
Muting Someone Won’t Stop Their Calls
As mentioned before, muting a WhatsApp conversation is different than blocking that contact. While you won’t get notifications when that person sends you messages, your phone will still ring when they call you as calls are permissible and not muted.
Muting On WhatsApp – In Conclusion
How’d you like this article? Honestly, when you think about it, muting someone on WhatsApp can stop you from dealing with a whole lot of unwanted notifications. This goes especially for Whatsapp group chats that are always active. I like that the process is simple and fairly easy to do. If muting an individual or group chat isn’t enough, maybe look into turning off WhatsApp notifications. This can help remove distracting notifications, especially if you spend far more time on WhatsApp than you need to. However, if you don’t need to turn off your WhatsApp notifications but instead want to get rid of a specific chat without deleting it, here’s how to hide a WhatsApp conversation. It’s a handy trick for WhatsApp users.If you have any questions, ask them in the comments below. Be sure to share this article with your friends, family, and followers too. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail.
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