How to Mute a Friend, Group, or Popular Story on Snapchat
Whether you want to take a break from a friend’s stories featuring too many redundant videos of her new cat or a group’s stories about an ongoing topic you’re not interested in, you can temporarily mute a Snapchat story with a few taps.
What Muting Does on Snapchat
When you mute someone’s stories, their profile won’t appear at the top of your stories feed when they add new stories. Stories from a muted friend also won’t appear as “up next” stories when you’re watching the latest ones from your friends. The benefits are you never have to remove a friend to stop seeing their stories, and you can both continue sending and receiving snap messages as usual. Friends you mute are never notified about it, and you still have the option to view their stories by scrolling to the bottom of your stories feed. When you want to start seeing stories again for someone you muted, you can unmute them at any time.
How to Unmute Someone’s Story on Snapchat
Unmuting a friend or group so you can see their stories again is as easy as muting them. Follow the steps above for any friend or group you’ve muted and select Unmute Story.
The Difference Between Mute and Do Not Disturb
You might already be aware that Snapchat has a do not disturb feature, which is basically a silencing feature for notifications from a particular friend or group. Muting is strictly for stories, while the do not disturb feature is for everything else, including photo snaps, video snaps, and chat messages. Both allow you to check up on stories or messages at your own discretion without having to remove friends, leave groups, or block friends, which completely cuts your connection with them. If you were to remove a friend, you’d have to re-add them to start seeing their stories again and message them. If you were to leave a group, you’d have to be invited back into the group by the group creator; block a friend, and you’d have to unblock them, then re-add them as a friend.
