How to mute or unmute a contact’s status update?

WhatsApp status and stories are visible only to those contacts that are saved on your phone’s address book. WhatsApp also allows you to change the privacy of your Status and making them visible to only select contacts. By default, your WhatsApp Status is visible to all contacts until or unless you change the WhatsApp status privacy settings. Sometimes this status feature gets very annoying. If that happened with you also that you are annoyed with anyone’s WhatsApp status update then you can simply mute them. Do you know how to mute or unmute a contact’s status update? Here is a complete step by step guide which you can follow to mute or unmute a contact’s status update on WhatsApp.

How to mute a contact’s status update on Whatsapp?

You can easily mute the status updates of a particular contact so they won’t appear towards the top of the “STATUS” tab anymore. In order to mute a contact’s status update simply follow the below-given steps.

Step 1: Open Whatsapp messenger on your smartphone.
Step 2: Next go to the STATUS tab.

Step 3: After opening the “STATUS” tab you need to tap and hold your contact’s status update of whom you want to mute the status.
Step 4: Then you will see a pop appearing on your screen. Tap MUTE to mute that contact’s status updates.

How to unmute a contact’s status update on Whatsapp?

Suppose you have changed your mind and now you want to unmute that contact’s status updates. Then you can do it at any time. It is very simple to do it. In order to unmute a contact’s status update simply follow the below-given steps.

Step 1: Open Whatsapp messenger on your smartphone.
Step 2: Next go to the STATUS tab.

Step 3: After opening the “STATUS” tab just scroll down to the “Muted updates” section.

Step 4: Then you need to tap and hold your contact’s status update. Then you will see a pop appearing on your screen. Tap UNMUTE to unmute that contact’s status updates.