{"id":807,"date":"2021-12-16T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/2019\/10\/31\/how-to-mute-a-thread-in-messages-on-ios\/https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/2019\/10\/31\/how-to-mute-a-thread-in-messages-on-ios\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:00:58","slug":"how-to-mute-a-thread-in-messages-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/807-how-to-mute-a-thread-in-messages-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"How to mute a thread in Messages on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s something to be said for muted chat threads. They\u2019re a blessing when you have to ignore someone but you can\u2019t block them. You won\u2019t get alerts\/notifications for new messages but you will get them all and you can go back and read them. It\u2019s really great. On iOS, you can mute a thread in Messages. The feature isn\u2019t exactly labeled as a mute button, but it works that way.<\/p>\n

Open the Messages app and select the chat thread that you want to mute. Tap the sender\u2019s name at the top and then tap the Info button.<\/p>\n

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On the information screen for the sender, you should see a switch called \u2018Hide Alerts\u2019. Turn it On, and that will do the job. When you return to the main Messages screen with all the other chat threads, a crescent moon icon will appear next to the \u2018muted\u2019 thread. This makes it easy to tell which threads have been muted, and which haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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A muted thread is just that; it sends you no alerts, but the messages all arrive. The best thing is, it works for both iMessages and regular text messages. The sender will not know that they\u2019ve been muted but, if you mute an iMessage thread and you have read receipts on, the sender will at least know when\/if their messages have been read. If there are no read receipts, then a delayed response or no response will likely tip them off.<\/p>\n

To enable the alerts again, visit the same information screen for the thread, and turn alerts back on.<\/p>\n

This \u2018Hide alerts\u2019 feature used to be called Do Not Disturb. Apple renamed it at some point but it works the same. Whether you call it \u2018Do Not Disturb\u2019, or \u2018Hide Alerts\u2019, or something else, it does the same thing. Apple may, or may not, have meant for it to be used as a mute feature but there\u2019s no stopping you from using it that way.<\/p>\n

This same trick does not work for FaceTime so if you\u2019re looking to ignore FaceTime calls from someone, you\u2019re going to have to block them which you can do natively. The downside to this is that when you block someone\u2019s FaceTime calls, you have to do it by blocking the contact which means no calls, or messages will come through. You can unblock a contact as easily as you can block them so it\u2019s nothing complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Related Articles There\u2019s something to be said for muted chat threads. They\u2019re a blessing when you have to ignore someone but you can\u2019t block them. You won\u2019t get alerts\/notifications for new messages but you will get them all and you can go back and read them. It\u2019s really great. On iOS, you can mute a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}