Muting a chat
Silence a chat — one person's, a group's or an enterprise's — for 8 hours, a week, or for good.
Muting a chat
In any chat with a person or a group, and in an enterprise's chat if you are one of its keepers:
- Tap ⋮ at the top right (⋯ in a chat with one person), then Mute notifications.
- Choose For 8 hours, For a week or Always.
To undo it, tap the same button, then Unmute.
Muting a one-to-one chat is on the phone only for now; group chats can be muted in both apps.
What muting does
- It stops that chat's alerts. In a group's chat, someone who @mentions you still reaches you. See "Mentions".
- An enterprise's chat sends no alerts, so there are none to stop. Muting it keeps it out of the numbers below.
- The chat still shows new messages.
- In Talk, under Groups, a muted chat shows a bell with a line through it. Its unread number is grey, and it is not added to the number on Groups.
- In a group's or an enterprise's chat, the top bar stays quiet about it too. A muted chat with one person still counts there.
- The mute stays when you leave the chat. When you open a group's or an enterprise's chat again, the top says muted.
Other chats
Event chats cannot be muted yet. You can:
- turn off whole kinds of alerts in Settings, under Notification Preferences. See "Notifications";
- block someone who is bothering you. See "Blocking someone".
Related
- NotificationsChoose which alerts reach your phone, and when events remind you.
- Blocking someoneHide someone's posts and messages from you, and undo it later.
- GroupsYour groups and their chats, talking in them, starting a group, inviting people, joining by invitation, and the group's own votes.
- Mentions (@name)Alert someone in a group chat by writing @ and their name.
- MessagesStart a chat, send photos, reply, react, edit, delete, mute, and what is private.
The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 162.