A desire not to fall out with family and friends can often make it a better option to mute WhatsApp chats rather than leave a group – but you could previously only do this for fixed periods of up to a year ….
Many of us have found ourselves in the situation of having been added to a group chat for family members or friends, but then being bombarded by messages, most of which are of no interest.
Muting the chat is thus the preferred option for many in this situation, as nobody can see that you’ve done it.
Muting WhatsApp chats means that you will no longer receive notifications or alerts when a new message arrives in the group.
You can then pretty much ignore it, and just take a look from time to time when it suits you.
Muting it isn’t ideal for that situation as the group will still pop back to the top of your chats anytime someone posts to it.
Currently, for Apple users, WhatsApp only actually runs on an iPhone
There are third-party iPad apps, but these are just a front-end to the web interface, which only supports one connection at a time
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