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Mute a user

You can mute any user you do not wish to interact with. Muting someone will have the following effects:

  • Combined feed sent by a muted user will automatically be marked as read for you, and will never generate any desktop, email, or mobile push notifications.
  • Combined feed sent by muted users, including the name, profile picture, and message content, are hidden behind a Click here to reveal banner. A revealed message can later be re-hidden.
  • Muted users are hidden from direct messages in the left sidebar and the list of users in the right sidebar. Direct messages between you and a muted user are excluded from all views, including search, unless you explicitly search for dm-with:<that user>.
  • Muted users have their name displayed as “Muted user” for emoji reactions, polls, and when displaying the recipients of group direct messages.
  • Muted users are excluded from the autocomplete for composing a direct message or mentioning a user.
  • Muted users are excluded from read receipts for all messages. Zulip never shares whether or not you have read a message with a user you’ve muted.
  • Recent conversations and other features that display avatars will show a generic user symbol in place of a muted user’s profile picture.
  • To avoid interfering with administration tasks, channel and organization settings display muted users’ names and other details.
  1. Hover over a user’s name in the right sidebar.
  2. Click on their avatar or the ellipsis ( ) to the right of their name to open their user card.
  3. Click on the ellipsis ( ) in the user card.
  4. Click Mute this user.
  5. On the confirmation popup, click Confirm.
  1. Hover over a message to reveal three icons on the right.
  2. Click on the ellipsis ( ).
  3. Click Hide muted message again.
  1. Go to Muted users.

From there, you can also search for and unmute users.