O Whatsapp has more than 150 million active accounts in Brazil. Everyone in this country, if they don't use it, must have at least heard about this application, which has become one of the main communication resources between people, both personal and professional.
Therefore, it is common, in the midst of this wide use, and sometimes even excessive, that certain contacts are somewhat unwanted. In this sense, it is worth learning the feature that silences any contact on WhatsApp. Check out more information on how to enable this feature in your app!
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Why do we choose to mute someone on WhatsApp?
Just like Instagram, WhatsApp also allows us to silence those contacts that we don't like or that for some reason we no longer want to follow. Therefore, the option of silence contacts is used to unfollow someone's updates without deleting them.
Therefore, when doing so, any information and updates about that contact that annoys you will no longer appear in the status list of the application. Thus, it becomes possible to ignore people you do not want to have contact with.
Learn how to mute a contact in the messaging app
A functionality the possibility of muting a contact on WhatsApp works both on Android devices and on iPhones, iOS. In all cases, the procedure is quite simple and intuitive. Follow the instructions in this text to complete the action correctly. Check out the step-by-step below:
- First open the WhatsApp application and tap on “Status”;
- Then press your contact's status screen;
- Finally, choose the “Silence” option that will appear on your screen and you’re done!
As a result, it will be possible to mute a WhatsApp contact's status updates and they will no longer be available to you (unless you want them to). If you want to turn status updates back on for a contact, just follow the instructions below:
- First open the WhatsApp application and tap on “Status”;
- Then slide the screen down to the part where the “Muted Updates” is;
- Finally, press status update for your contact, tap “Reactivate” and the action will be undone!