For greater control over your notifications, you can mute specific channels and direct messages (DMs). Muting conversations allows you to read conversations when you want, without receiving notifications for new activity.

How muting works

• Muted channels and DMs are greyed out at the bottom of your channel list.
• You won't be notified of new activity, but you'll see a numbered badge 1 in your channel list if a someone mentions you or the channel, and in your DM list if someone sends you a message.
• The  Threads view will appear bold if a teammate creates or replies to a thread from a message that you've sent in a muted conversation.

Mute a channel

Mute a direct message

If you mute a direct message, you'll no longer be notified of new messages from that conversation. Muting a DM will not mute all messages from a specific teammate when they're posted to other conversations. 

Tip: To quickly mute and unmute, open a conversation, type /mute in the message field, and send the message. Or click the  muted conversation icon next to the channel or person's name.

Note: You can mute messages from apps or bots in channels, but you cannot mute direct messages from bots or apps.