Mute, delete and search conversations
Each conversation in Messages has a menu for muting, favorites, leaving and deleting.
Open a conversation’s menu
Section titled “Open a conversation’s menu”Swipe the conversation left for its buttons: Mute, Favorite, Leave for a group, and Delete. Or press and hold it for the same choices in a menu. On a tablet, the ••• at the end of its row opens the menu too.
Click the ••• at the end of the conversation’s row, or right-click the row.
General offers only Mute. So does the conversation for your own trade; another trade’s conversation you joined offers Mute and Leave.
Mute a conversation
Section titled “Mute a conversation”- Open the conversation’s menu and tap Mute Conversation, or Mute on the swipe.
- Choose how long: For 8 hours, For 1 week or Always.
You can also do it from inside the conversation: tap its name at the top, then Notifications. That row says On, Muted until and when, or Muted.
A muted conversation shows a muted bell in the list. Its messages still arrive, but they send no push notification, leave no unread dot and add nothing to your notifications. A mention of you still gets through. A mute for a while ends by itself.
To unmute, choose Unmute Conversation in the menu, Unmute on the swipe, or Notifications then Unmute inside the conversation. It takes effect at once.
Favorites
Section titled “Favorites”Choose Favorite Conversation, or Favorite on the swipe, and the conversation moves to Favorites, above Direct Messages. Unfavorite puts it back.
Leave a group or delete a conversation
Section titled “Leave a group or delete a conversation”- Leave Group takes you out of a group or a trade’s conversation you joined.
- Delete Conversation deletes it. A bar says Conversation deleted, with Undo for a moment if you change your mind.
A conversation whose other person has left the project offers only Delete.
Search
Section titled “Search”Type in the Search box above the conversations. It finds people’s names, words in messages, trades, and task lists by their number. Clear the box to see everything again. When nothing matches, it says No conversations found. With a keyboard, Command-F goes to the box.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- Offline, muting, favorites, leaving and deleting all work. They wait in your Outbox and are sent when you’re back online: see Work offline.
- On your other devices, a mute shows once you open Messages there again.
- To stop a kind of notification everywhere, not just one conversation, see Notification settings.