Everyone uses WhatsApp to communicate and we are not always aware of when we send a message or if it is time or not. That is why, surely it has happened to you that some WhatsApp message has spoiled your nap, made you get up early or made you look bad in an important meeting. You can mute a group or contact on WhatsApp so that it does not bother you.
Either because you do not want to be disturbed or because we all have a heavy friend, a group that is filled with messages that do not interest you … In those cases, you can mute a group or contact on WhatsApp and there are no limits on muted contacts so do not You will have to turn off your phone or remove the Internet if you do not want notifications and pending messages to appear continuously.
Do you know that I have silenced you?
No. The other person will not know that you have silenced their conversation nor will the participants in a group know that you have. Silencing does not imply blocking and they can continue to see your WhatsApp status, your profile picture or your connection if you have it configured. They will be able to continue talking to you, but you will not receive the notification if you do not want to be disturbed or simply if you do not want a certain person to be seen speaking to you from the notification bar.
Mute WhatsApp conversations
If you want to mute a contact that tends to write to you at inappropriate times or that tends to annoy you, you can do it and he will not know that he is muted. You have the option to silence their notifications so that they do not sound or directly delete the notifications from the bar of your phone. That will mean that you will only see that person has written to you if you enter WhatsApp and see that there are new messages. If you don’t open the application you won’t see anything about that contact.
To silence someone, there are two options. Follow a few simple steps:
- Open the WhatsApp application
- Go to the chat window
- Tap and hold the conversation with the person you want to mute
- Tap the speaker icon in the upper right corner
- Tap on the speaker
- Choose the time you want to silence it
- Eight hours
- One week
- One year
- Decide whether or not you want to show notifications
- Press OK to confirm
From the chat
Another option to silence conversations or contacts on WhatsApp is to do it from the chat itself if you are already talking to that person. The steps are also very simple, the objective is the same and the options are identical to the previous ones.
- Open the WhatsApp application
- Enter the chat window with the contact in question
- Click on the three dots in the upper right corner
- Tap on the “Silence notifications” option
- Choose how long you want to silence that person
- Eight hours
- One week
- One year
- Check or uncheck the “Show notifications” box
- Confirm with the OK button
From within the chat there is also a second option:
- Open the chat in question
- Click on the person’s name at the top
- You will access the contact information, files, etc.
- Tap on “Silence notifications”
- Choose time and whether or not you want notifications
- Confirm with OK and the result is the same as with the previous process
You will not receive notifications from that person. Your phone will not ring at night or during naps and you can decide if you want to see if he has written to you or not.
If you don’t have chats
If you know that someone is going to talk to you and you don’t want them to, you can also silence them. If you don’t have a conversation with that person, you can open a new one and mute it by following one of the previous steps, even if you don’t have messages in common yet. Just tap on the speech bubble button in the lower right corner of the WhatsApp chat screen, choose the contact from your phonebook , start a conversation and mute using the previous methods.
Mute WhatsApp groups
We are all in various WhatsApp groups and we are not always interested in conversations. In addition, the messages received are not always at times when we would like to receive notifications. Therefore, it is best to silence groups on WhatsApp for as long as we want and thus avoid interruptions and we can even avoid hundreds of notifications that do not even interest us. There are two options to mute WhatsApp groups: mute the sound of WhatsApp groups or mute or disable notifications as well. We explain how you can do it and what options you have for it:
- Open WhatsApp on your mobile phone
- Go to the chat window
- Press and hold the group you want to mute
- Click on the “Silence” icon in the upper right corner
- WhatsApp will give you three different options:
- 8 hours
- 1 week
- 1 year
- Choose the one that suits you best and the time you want
- You will also see “Show notifications”
- Check this option if you want to receive notifications but without sound
- Uncheck the option if you don’t want to know anything about the group until you enter it.
In groups you can also follow the procedure to mute a contact from within the chat, both one and the other. In other words, follow these steps:
- Open the group you want to mute
- Click on the three points in the upper right corner
- Tap on the “Silence notifications” option
- Choose the time you want to silence
- 8 hours
- 1 week
- 1 year
- Check the box “Show notifications” or not
- Confirm with the ok button
That group will not ring again for another year and you will have to follow the procedure again, after twelve months, so that they are silent again for a year.
Mute WhatsApp
Another option is to silence WhatsApp completely. This will not consist of muting all the contacts in your phonebook one by one but you can mute all the notifications or deactivate them in bulk. You will not receive sounds or receive notifications in the bar of the phone, you will only see if someone has spoken to you when you voluntarily open the application and consult the different chats of it.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Click on the three dots in the upper right corner
- Tap on Settings
- Go to the notifications section
- Deactivate the button “Conversation tones”
- Once you do, you will not receive sounds when receiving a message
If you want to disable notifications completely, you can follow these steps:
- Press and hold the WhatsApp icon on the phone’s desktop
- Tap the information button that you will see in the popup window
- Go to the notifications section
- Deactivate the “Allow notifications” button
This way you will silence all WhatsApp notifications: groups, individual chats, calls, multimedia sending, video calls … You can also choose, one by one, which notifications you want to allow and which ones you prefer to block
