The mute feature of WhatsApp has been around for a long time in the app for all platforms mobile phones A necessary commodity to silence all those group chats in which it seemed like a good idea at first to participate, but which end up becoming a A veritable henhouse of people exchanging hundreds of messages in a few minutes, making the mobile phone ring and vibrate. Something that now also expands to individual chats, being able to ignore those contacts who don't know when to shut up.
The process is really simple, and it is already available both for Android users, and for those who use iPhone or a terminal Windows Phone Simply access a conversation or chat and display the menu or click on the name of the contact
This accesses the contact information screen, where you can see the latest photos and photos shared, activate personalized notifications, or , which leads us in this case, to apply a mute to your notifications.
You just have to activate the Mute option to display a contextual window with the different available options on the screen.And it is that in WhatsApp it is possible to program a silence only for specific periods of time. These are for 8 hours, 1 week or 1 year Just select one and it starts to apply from that moment.
It should also be mentioned that WhatsApp allows you to mute both the sound as the notification itself. In other words, do not make the notification bar appear with an icon if you have new messages pending from that contact. Something that can be really useful to ignore that person or to avoid distractions with the LED indicator of the terminal, in addition to saturating it bar of notifications Of course, once you access WhatsApp, on the screen with the different chats, it is possible to see thedial with the number of messages pending to read of the silenced conversation.
And the exact same goes for group conversations A meeting place that already had the power to be silenced due to highnumber of messages, notifications and conversations that can be combined in one place. In the same way, you only have to access the group information screen to find the Mute section. Here you have to activate the function and choose between the three different times available, being able to also choose the option to ignore the notification icon if necessary.
Now, it is not possible to mute a chat forever, be it individual or group. Thus, after 8 hours, the week or the year, said chat will make the terminal ring again with each message received , having to repeat the process if you want to continue with the silence.
It should also be noted that this function is fully operational through WhatsApp Web, so users can mute any chat directly in the comfort of the computer. Simply click on the small down arrow that appears when you pass the mouse over each chat on the left side of the screen and select Mute
