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How to Mute Text Notifications For Individual or Group Message Conversations

Last updated on February 23, 2016 By Serhat Kurt 3 Comments

When you receive a text message, you will be alerted with a sound. You may silence these alerts while your iPhone (or iPad) is locked, if you turn on “Do Not Disturb”.  You may also turn off message notifications by going to Settings > Notifications > Messages > Allow Notifications.  However these options will mute all text messages that you will receive.

Lets say that you are getting a lot of messages from a person. And you want to stop these endless notifications. What about group texts (Group MMS)? Sometimes they never stop especially if it is a large group. You may just want to silence this without silencing everything.

How to silence conversations

There is a convenient way to do this. Here is how to silence a conversation:

1-Open the Messages app.

2-Tap on the message conversations you want to mute (group or individual).

3-Tap “Details”

text message details option

4-Turn the Do Not Disturb option On.

turn on do not disturb

Note that you will now see a moon icon next to conversations that you’ve muted.

silenced text messages

Also note that this will not remove you, it just prevents you from being notified. You will still be able to send, receive messages and respond to messages.

If you are having no notification sound problems, please read this article.

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Messages

Comments

  1. Dee says

    February 8, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    I have a moon by someone I want to receive notifications from—how do I switch it back?

    Reply
    • Christina says

      February 24, 2021 at 3:50 pm

      Hold down on their name in the message app and a little menu pops up – then select “show notifications”

      Reply
  2. Courtney McMahan says

    October 9, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    How do you do this a in ios11?? All I can do is hide notifications- I want to silence a group! Help!!!!

    Reply

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