WhatsApp allows various options on privacy, and increasingly, when managing chats with our contacts. Among the possibilities that this social messaging network allows is to silence someone to stop receiving their messages. We tell you how to know if a person has us silenced and the consequences of enabling silence .
First of all, keep in mind that silencing a contact on WhatsApp is not the same as blocking. If we block someone, they will notice immediately, since the profile photo will disappear, the status updates and the messages we send will only have one click, and not the famous double click that verifies that it has been delivered.
Muting a contact is not the same as blocking
Knowing if someone has silenced us is more difficult to detect than if they have blocked us, since in this last option there are more obvious signs of it in the messaging app itself. However, the fact that someone has silenced us is not something that we can detect with certain behaviors or aspects within the app itself, therefore, we will have to use common sense.
The fact of silencing a chat means that you will not receive any type of alert or notifications of the messages received from that contact or WhatsApp group. This does not imply that our messages have been read or not by the person who has silenced us, therefore, it is not something identifying to know if they have silenced us. They may not have read it, or they may even have read it or they did not answer us because they were busy and then they forgot, or they may not want to know anything about us and even if they have read it they do not want to reply to our messages. Therefore, if this happens often, we can become suspicious.
How to know if we have been silenced on WhatsApp
For this we will have to pull certain tricks and later draw our own conclusions. For example, if we have the possibility of being close to that person, we can try to send them a WhatsApp message and see if their phone alerts them of the message. If you have your mobile at hand but it does not sound or vibrate after receiving the message, nor is a WhatsApp notification displayed, this means that you have silenced us.
Now, if we are not close to that person, we can ask a mutual friend for a favor to send him a message to see if he answers or not. We can even send a message almost at the same time to see if that other person answers and we don’t. If so, we can already imagine that he has silenced us or that he simply does not want to answer us.
There is a way that the other person receives equally even though we are silenced. Although for that we have to coincide in a group with the person in question. We refer to citing by using the @ and the contact name with which we have it memorized. Thus, you will ensure that you receive the message by means of audible or vibration alarms, and that you read it fully consciously. Of course, this little trick is not valid for private conversations.
The option to mute contacts on WhatsApp takes some time available and allows us to avoid receiving messages from people who are actively writing all day. It is also a useful measure for those users who, either due to work or social commitments, receive thousands of messages and chat a day. In this way, the use of received messages can be reduced for better management and without having to block anyone so as not to look so bad.
How to silence WhatsApp
If, on the other hand, it is you who wants to silence someone, don’t worry because this is really easy to do. To do this you have to enter the chat of the person you want to silence .
- Click on the three dots in the upper right and select “Mute notifications.”
- Next, a menu opens in which you can silence notifications for 8 hours, 1 week, or always.
- It also allows you to mark whether or not we want to show notifications.
Mute in other messaging apps
Open a chat with the person you want to silence and click on the three dots in the upper right corner. Then click on “Mute”, which will allow you to perform this action for a period of 1 hour, 8 hours, 2 days, or silence forever.
