[Tip] How to Mute Certain WhatsApp Chat Notifications for Always

If you use the popular WhatsApp messenger app in your smartphone (Android or iPhone) and you want to disable new chat message notifications for specific group or person, this tutorial will help you.

In WhatsApp, whenever someone sends a new message to your mobile phone, WhatsApp shows a notification containing message text and sender’s information at top. The mobile phone also plays default notification sound upon new message arrival.

Although we can permanently turn off WhatsApp notifications using its Settings or Apps settings page in our mobile phone Settings but it’ll completely disable all WhatsApp notifications and we’ll be unable to get notifications for important messages such as office messages, etc.

Many times you may want to disable notifications for certain groups or person. For example, you are subscribed to a friend, family or news group and you don’t want to receive notifications for new messages in those groups. You just want to occasionally visit those groups to check new messages. Getting frequent notifications from these groups may annoy you while doing important work or watching videos, playing games in your mobile phone.

Similarly you may want to block notifications for some people who just share news and jokes with you, nothing important stuff.

WhatsApp allows users to disable or mute notifications for specific groups or person. Once you mute notifications for a group or person, you’ll not see new message notifications for them. Other notifications will keep showing without any issue.

In this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to disable or mute notifications for desired WhatsApp group or contact. This tutorial will work for both Android as well as iOS.

In past, WhatsApp used to allow users to mute notifications for 8 hours, 1 week or 1 year and after that time the notifications were automatically unmuted.

Now newer versions of WhatsApp allow users to mute chat notifications forever. Now you can disable new message notifications for always for certain groups and contacts.

If you also want to turn off chat notifications for WhatsApp groups and contacts, following steps will help you:

1. Open WhatsApp and decide which group or contact you want to disable for new message notifications.

2. Tap and hold (long press) on the group or contact chat and WhatsApp will show a MUTE button in the toolbar as shown in following screenshot:

3. Tap on MUTE button and WhatsApp will ask you for the time period to mute notifications.

Select Always option and tap on OK button.

PS: If you want to just mute the sound but want to get notification pop-ups for new messages, you can select “Show notifications” option.

That’s it. WhatsApp will mute or disable notifications for selected group or contact and you’ll never receive new chat message notifications for those groups or contacts.

You can select many groups and contacts at once and disable notifications for all of them in a single step.

NOTE: In future, if you decide to unmute or enable notifications for a group or contact, again tap and hold on the group or contact chat and tap on UNMUTE (Volume) icon showing in WhatsApp toolbar. It’ll turn on notifications for those groups or contacts.

BONUS TIP:

If you want to mute or disable notifications for a contact which is not present in WhatsApp chat window, you can open WhatsApp contacts list, tap on the desired contact’s profile picture, then tap on “i” (Info) icon and now you can enable “Mute notifications” option.

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