WhatsApp has already supplied an possibility to allow you to mute notifications of particular person chats and group messages perpetually on its platform since October final yr. However, that possibility isn’t helpful when you find yourself talked about by somebody in a gaggle chat for which you may have already muted notifications. You will proceed to obtain notifications if a consumer within the group replies to one in every of your beforehand despatched messages or mentions you within the thread. This isn’t technically a flaw, but it surely might get annoying if a number of members in a muted group are mentioning you or replying to your earlier message.
However, you’ll be able to mute such notifications by following a workaround, as initially reported by WABetaInfo.
How to mute point out notifications on WhatsApp
You can mute notifications of the messages that point out you or are in response to your current message in a gaggle for which you may have already muted notifications on each Android and iOS. It additionally works on WhatsApp Web or its desktop shopper. What you want to do is to mute notifications from the person customers who point out you or ship a reply to your earlier message within the muted group.
To mute notifications from a person consumer, you simply want to go to their profile on WhatsApp after which faucet the identify of the consumer. After that, search for the Mute notifications possibility on Android or Mute on iOS. You can select from three choices — 8 hours, per week, or all the time choices to mute notifications.
This is useful once you can not go away a WhatsApp group however don’t need to obtain steady notifications if somebody mentions you or replies to your message in that group.
WABetaInfo experiences that the workaround would work even when WhatsApp will allow the reported multi-device assist. It might primarily sync the principles for notifications throughout units.
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