How to Mute WhatsApp Notifications?

Do you want to mute WhatsApp notifications? You may get overwhelmed by frequent receiving of WhatsApp notifications. Well, one option is to turn off your internet but it will stop the functioning of other apps too. And you can’t switch off your phone for this reason.

So, as a preventive measure to avoid the frequent WhatsApp notifications, you can mute the notifications. WhatsApp allows you to mute individuals or group notifications. In our previous content, we have discussed the method to mute WhatsApp group notifications.

Here we will discuss how to manage the WhatsApp notification for the group as well as an individual.

1. Mute Notification of All Messages
2. Mute Notification of an Individual’s Messages

Steps to Mute WhatsApp Notification:

Method 1: Mute Notification of All Messages

This method would mute all the individuals and WhatsApp groups in your WhatsApp contact list.

Step 1: Tap on the WhatsApp icon on your phone to open the app.

Further, you have to tap on ‘more options’ denoted by three horizontal dots at the top right corner of the screen as you can see in the image below.

Step 2: Now, from the displayed options you have to tap on Settings.

Step 3: On the Settings page you have to tap on Notifications option as it will let you manage the individual, group and call notifications.

Step 4: On the Notifications page you can change the Message notification tone to silent. You can even change the Groups message notification to silent. At the bottom of the page, you can change the call notification also.

Method 2: Mute Notification of an Individual’s Messages

In case you don’t want to mute notifications from all WhatsApp users in your list and just want to mute a particular user then you can perform the following steps to mute an individual.

Step 1: Open the WhatsApp app and in the CHATS tab, tap on the name of the individual whom you want to mute particularly.

Step 2: Now, tap on the more options denoted by three vertical dots at the top right corner of the screen.

Step 3: From the displayed options you have to tap on Mute notifications.

Step 4: Select the duration up to which you want to mute the corresponding notification. Then tap on OK.

So, this is all about the steps to mute notifications in WhatsApp you can unmute the notifications whenever you want. Hope the content useful. Keep reading.