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Mute notifications

To mute notifications is to silence alerts so that they do not sound or otherwise notify you until you turn them back on.

In plain English

This makes alerts go quiet instead of drawing attention to themselves. They stop making sounds or otherwise notifying you, and stay that way until you switch them on again.

In context

Here, "Mute notifications" labels an action that silences alerts so they stop notifying you until they are turned back on.

Situation
Notification, privacy, data-export, and account-deletion settings
What it communicates
labels an action that suppresses notifications

Meaning limits

The term alone does not establish which alerts are included.

Examples

“He muted notifications before the film and turned them back on afterward.”

Core meaning

“If the pings keep interrupting the discussion, mute notifications on the shared tablet.”

In context

  • unmute notifications Opposite

    This reverses the muted state and allows notifications to notify you again.

  • mute alerts Near Synonym

    This expresses the same action of stopping alerts from notifying you for a period.