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.
Mute a user
Section titled “Mute a user”- Hover over a user’s name in the right sidebar.
- Click on their avatar or the ellipsis () to the right of their name to open their user card.
- Click on the ellipsis () in the user card.
- Click Mute this user.
- On the confirmation popup, click Confirm.
Re-hide a message that has been revealed
Section titled “Re-hide a message that has been revealed”- Hover over a message to reveal three icons on the right.
- Click on the ellipsis ().
- Click Hide muted message again.
See your list of muted users
Section titled “See your list of muted users”- Go to Muted users.
From there, you can also search for and unmute users.