WhatsApp Now Lets You Mute Chats Forever
Oct. 23, 2020If you live in India, you might be a part of one of thoseWhatsAppgroup chats that you can’t just up and leave due to peer pressure. If you make a mistake by not muting one of such groups, you will be bombarded with an endless stream offorwarded messages, or worse, a low-res GIF with a flower that says ‘Good morning’ every day. To rescue us from all these unnecessary distractions, WhatsApp has long offered a mute option but the latest update makes a much-needed change to this feature.
Asspottedin July,you can now mute chats and groups forever. Previously, you had to manually mute these conversations every year, since the maximum mute limit was one year. In case you’re not interested to mute them forever, theother possible options are 8 hours and a week.
You can now mute a chat forever 🤫pic.twitter.com/DlH7jAt6P8
To mute chats forever, all you have to do islong-press on the conversation and press the mute buttonpresent in the top-right corner. In the pop-up menu that appears, you need topick ‘Always’and tap the OK button. You can choose to see notifications by checking the ‘Show notifications’ option or stay aloof of whatever’s happening in a group conversation you mute.
While this might seem like a basic feature for those who are not active on WhatsApp, it is certainly a long-awaited one, especially among those who have pesky relatives or acquaintances. You can mute chats from WhatsApp’s Android app, iOS app, and evenon the web.
Now that I can finally forget about those groups I never cared to check, all I’m asking is for WhatsApp tobring vacation mode– the company’s upcoming feature to make sure that archived chats don’t come back to the home page after an incoming notification. If you are interested in learning about more features missing in WhatsApp, click through tocheck out the listwe have compiled.
Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
