How to Stop Receiving Whatsapp Chats without Blocking

Jakarta – WhatsApp is becoming the most popular messaging app in the world because it offers flexible, simple, and convenient messaging platform for users.

Despite the app gives some beneficial features, but sometimes users find theirself bothered by messages from someone by WhatsApp. Then, they probably think to block the disturber.

However, blocking someone on WhatsApp is a harsh step, and the other person can easily determine that you have blocked them. Thankfully, alternate ways exist to stop receiving WhatsApp messages without blocking a user.

While WhatsApp doesn’t have a privacy setting to allow messages from contacts, it offers features to ignore someone without them knowing. You can mute, archive, or lock the chat, as reported from Guiding tech site.

1. Use Mute to Avoid Messages from Someone on WhatsApp

Mute is one of the easiest ways to avoid messages from someone on WhatsApp without blocking them. 

Once you mute a personal or group chat, you will not be notified about any new messages from them unless they mention you. The messages from a muted user will still appear in your chat list.

Follow these steps to mute a WhatsApp chat on Android and iPhone:

Step 1: Launch WhatsApp on your phone and open the chat you want to mute.

Step 2: Tap on the person’s or the group’s name at the top to open the contact info screen.

Step 3: On Android, enable the toggle next to Mute notifications. On iPhone, tap on the Mute option.

Step 4: A pop-up window will show up. Select Always if you want to mute the user permanently and press the Ok button.

Once muted, you will see the mute icon (speaker with a bar) next to the muted chat. Know the difference between mute and block on WhatsApp.

2. Using Archive

Another way to ignore someone on WhatsApp without them knowing is by archiving the chat. This method offers the advantage over the first method as it hides the chat from the main chat list as well.