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id: 347
revision: '0'
language: en
title: Mute your notifications
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You can turn off and on your notifications for the entire app or specific communities, channels, group chats, and direct messages (DMs) for a designated period. Communities, group chats, channels and direct messages appear greyed out when you mute their notifications.

:::tip
You have the option to [set notification exceptions][set-notification-exceptions] to fine-tune your notification preferences, allowing certain notifications to come through even if others are muted. For instance, you can mute all notifications for a channel except for messages sent by a specific user.
:::

## Mute all the Status app notifications

=== "Mobile"

    1. From the tab bar, tap :mobile-messages: **Messages**.
    1. Tap your profile picture.
    1. Scroll down in the list and tap :mobile-mute: **Notifications**.
    1. Turn **Notifications** off.

=== "Desktop"

    1. From the navigation sidebar, click :desktop-settings: **Settings**.
    1. In the **Settings** sidebar, click :desktop-notification: **Notifications and Sounds**.
    1. Turn **Notifications** off.

:::info
Muting all the Status app notifications mutes ephemeral notifications (the ones appearing on your screen and disappearing shortly after).
:::

## Mute specific notifications

You still see a badge if someone mentions you in a muted channel, community, group chat, or direct message. This badge displays the number of mentions.

=== "Mobile"

    1. From the tab bar, tap :mobile-communities: **Communities** to mute a community or channel, or tap :mobile-messages: **Messages** to mute a group chat or DM.
    1. Long press the community, channel, group chat or DM you want to mute.
    1. Tap :mobile-mute: **Mute**.
    1. Select the length of time you'd like to mute your notifications.

=== "Desktop"

    ### Mute communities

    1. From the navigation sidebar, click :desktop-settings: **Settings**.
    1. From the settings sidebar, click :desktop-communities: **Communities**.
    1. Choose the community you want to mute, and click :desktop-notification: **Mute**.

    ### Mute channels

    1. From the navigation sidebar, click the community with the channel you wish to mute.
    1. In the channel sidebar, right-click the channel.
    1. Select :desktop-notification: **Mute**.

    ### Mute group chats or DMs

    1. From the navigation sidebar, click :desktop-messages: **Messages**.
    1. In the **Messages** sidebar, right-click the group chat or DM you wish to mute.
    1. Select :desktop-notification: **Mute**.