How to Mute Whole WhatsApp Notifications on Android and iOS

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Why Mute Your WhatsApp Notifications?

We live in a world where constant pinging and distraction is the norm. Fortunately, you can mute notifications in WhatsApp. Doing so will stop your phone from making noise or vibrating when someone messages you. This can provide a better option to blocking someone or exiting a group because there’s too many distractions. Here’s how to mute/unmute your chats on iPhone and Android.

Muting conversations only applies to sound. Any new notifications from a muted contact will still appear in your Chat window. To remove these Chats from view, you can either delete or archive them.

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.

When you mute someone on Whatsapp, can you receive their phone call?

Yes, you can still receive their calls and you can still call them. Whatsapp will not notify you for their messages but it will ring if they call you so you can pick up.

What Happens When You Turn off Notifications in WhatsApp

When you turn off notifications, you will not be disturbed when a message arrives. Even though the message will be available in WhatsApp when you open it, you will not receive any notification from WhatsApp. It holds true for individual chats, groups, and calls. You will have to open WhatsApp to check for new messages manually.

The notifications won’t appear in the notification panel too. Even the notification badge will not show on the WhatsApp icon. Unless you open the app, it will seem as if there is no notification from WhatsApp.

Turn off WhatsApp Call Notifications

The message notification tone is usually a smaller one, but calls annoy a person for they have longer ringtones. Instead of muting individual contacts, you can turn off WhatsApp call notifications. When you do so, you will receive WhatsApp calls but without any sound.

Note:

To turn it off on Android, go to WhatsApp Settings > Notifications. Tap on Ringtone under Calls. Select None. Also, tap on Vibrate under Calls and select Off.

How to unmute someone on Whatsapp

Whatsapp, follow our instructions below:

1. Select an individual or group chat.
2. Press Options > Unmute.

Alternatively, open the individual or group chat. Press Options > View contact or Group info > Mute notifications > None.

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Method 2: Mute all calls completely

If you’re someone who doesn’t expect any voice or video call via WhatsApp but are using it to simply receive texts and media, then you can mute all WhatsApp calls.

On Android

To mute all calls on WhatsApp on an Android device, open WhatsApp, tap on the 3-dots icon at the top right.

Select the ‘Settings’ option from the drop-down menu.

Inside the WhatsApp Settings screen, select the ‘Notifications’ option.

On the next screen, scroll down until you reach the ‘Calls’ section. In this section, tap on ‘Ringtone’. When a list of options is presented to you, tap on ‘None’.

Now that you have muted all sounds for WhatsApp calls, your job is not done yet. Your Android device will still vibrate when you receive a WhatsApp call.

To stop your phone from vibrating every time you get a WhatsApp call, select ‘Vibrate’ from under the ‘Calls’ section inside the ‘Notifications’ screen. When prompted with a list of options, choose ‘Off’ to completely disable vibration for incoming calls.

There you go! You have successfully muted all incoming call notifications for WhatsApp calls. Your Android phone will no longer buzz or produce sound when you receive a call on WhatsApp.

On iOS

Unlike on Android, the WhatsApp app on iOS doesn’t let you mute incoming WhatsApp calls separately. Instead, you’re forced to mute all notifications from within the app which means in addition to silencing your WhatsApp calls, iOS will also mute notifications for texts received within the app if you follow the method below.

To proceed with muting all WhatsApp calls on iOS, you need to launch WhatsApp on your iPhone/iPad, tap on the ‘Settings’ tab at the bottom, and select the ‘Notifications’ option on the screen.

Inside the ‘Notifications’ screen, you will notice that there’s no dedicated notification control for WhatsApp calls. So, your only option is to completely disable notifications for WhatsApp. You can do that by tapping the ‘In-App Notifications’ options inside the ‘Notifications’ screen.

In the next screen, you will have to make separate changes to the way you’re alerted on WhatsApp. If you don’t want your iPhone to ring upon receiving a WhatsApp call, then disable the ‘Sounds’, and ‘Vibrate’ toggles. If you wish to see visual alerts for calls and messages, you can keep the ‘Alert Style’ to ‘Banners’ or ‘Alerts’.

If not, you can change the Alert style to ‘None’ if you want to completely remain undisturbed for alerts on WhatsApp.

This is the only way you can mute WhatsApp calls on iOS.

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How to Mute/Unmute WhatsApp Notifications on Android

Muting either individual and group conversations on your Android is a snap. Here's how to do it.

1. Open WhatsApp, then tap Chats.

2. Tap and hold on the chat you want to mute until a green circle appears, then tap the speaker icon in the top right.

3. Choose the length of time you want to mute the conversation for, then tap OK.

   To unmute a chat, tap and hold the chatyou want to unmute until the green circle appears, then tap the speaker icon in the top right corner of the screen to unmute the chat.

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