The popular communication tool Discord is used to establish connections with others. Users may live to stream their favourite games on Discord, communicate with their friends, and participate in voice channels.
During voice conversation, people occasionally engage in all manner of behaviour, including loud and unwanted noises which start to bother both users and everyone else in the voice channel at this point. In this situation, muting everyone in Discord is the wisest action and this blog will show you how to mute someone on Discord.
How to Mute Someone on Discord?
Discord users can mute someone’s voice in a voice channel and text messages from the text chat. If a user mutes someone, they would not be able to hear what the other person is saying and the process for muting someone in both types of chats is explained in the following sections.
How to Mute Someone on Discord From Text Chat Using the PC?
To mute someone on Discord from Text chat, launch the Discord application and follow the below-provided instructions.
Step 1: Access the Text Chat of the User
First, access the text channel of the user which is supposed to mute. For example, we will mute the text chat for the “ItsLinuxFoss” on Discord:
Step 2: Right Click on the User Name
Now, right-click either on the user’s name or its avatar, and a menu will be displayed:
Step 3: Choose the Mute Option
Finally, choose the “Mute@[username]” option from the displayed menu. Upon doing so, another menu will be displayed to choose the time duration until which the user is supposed to mute:
The user is muted successfully for the specified time in the text chat.
How to Mute Someone on Discord in Voice Chat Using the PC?
To mute someone on Discord in voice chat for avoiding its annoying voice, follow the below-mentioned steps.
Step 1: Access the Voice Chat
First, access the voice chat channel where the user who is supposed to mute presents. To understand the method of muting someone on voice chat, we will mute ourselves. To do so, we will choose the “Voice Channel” in which the user is present:
People present in the voice channel are displayed.
Step 2: Locate the User in Voice Chat
Secondly, locate the user in the voice chat channel who is supposed to mute. In this example, we will mute “maddox_TSL”:
Step 3: Right Click on the User Name
Now, again right click on the user’s name to whom you want mute. Upon doing so, the new menu will appear:
Step 4: Mute the User
Lastly, choose “Mute” from the options displayed on the screen:
The user will be muted on the voice chat.
What is the Method to Mute Someone on Discord Using a Mobile Application?
Similarly, to the Discord application on the computer, users can mute someone from the Discord mobile application. To do so, first, access the message conversation of the friend who is supposed to mute. For example, we will mute the text chat of the friend “Tim Joe Root”, so open its conversation and click on the “Friends” icon on the top of the mobile screen:
Then. click on the “Notification” option:
Finally, choose the time duration for which the user is supposed to be muted:
The user will be muted successfully for the specified time duration.
Conclusion
To mute someone on Discord users can mute them either from a voice channel or text chat from a personal conversation box. To mute someone, simply access the person either from chat or voice channel, right-click on its name, and choose the “Mute” option from the appeared menu. This post has demonstrated the steps to mute someone on voice and text chats in Discord.
