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Mute vs Do Not Disturb on Snapchat [Difference Explanation]
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Social media platforms can be a bitnoisy– you open theSnapchatapp, for example, and are greeted with thousands of posts. You leave the app closed, and your smartphone is flooded by notifications.
To keep it all sane,Snapchat(and almost every other social platform) have theblock,mute, and Do Not Disturb features.
Blocking is straightforward, as it outrightly bans the user from your account. However,Snapchat‘s Mute vs Do Not Disturb features are confusing as they seem to be one and the same.
How can I tell the difference between Snapchat’s Mute vs Do Not Disturb?
How does the Mute option work in Snapchat?
When the muted user posts a story, it’s not queued with other recent stories. Instead, the story will be relegated to the end of your story list.
On your story slideshow, the stories from contacts that you muted will be nowhere to be found. This feature is similar to the muting feature of Instagram.
Muting aSnapchatgroup or user is like taking a break from them. In this sense, nothing changes on the side of the muted contacts.
People that you mute will have no clue that you did that becauseSnapchatwill continue to show your recent stories to them in the story slideshow.
How does Do Not Disturb work in Snapchat?
When you use the Do Not Disturb feature on aSnapchatcontact or group, your application stops delivering notifications from the person or group.
Unlike the Mute feature,Snapchatdoesn’t stop showing you their stories; this one is all about your notifications.
Nothing happens inside the app itself. As the name says, you simply don’t want that contact or group to disturb you anymore.
Whenever you’re ready to open theSnapchatapp, you’ll see all of their recent stories and messages as they should be, just like everyone else’s.
OnSnapchat, if you no longer want to have anything to do with a user, you can block them.
However, if it’s not that deep, and you only want to take a break from them, you have theSnapchatMute and Do Not Disturb features to play with.
Muting a contact or group hides their stories from you, while the Do Not Disturb feature stops their notifications from coming through.
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Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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