What does the horn that appears on WhatsApp mean? – Chat tricks

WhatsApp is one of the most used applications worldwide, Since with this you can do many activities that make communication more interesting, a clear example is when you add a contact to create a group on WhatsApp.

These groups are made up of different people who interact with each other, being a very useful option when you want to provide information to many people in the same community, for example a school.

But what happens if the group becomes insistent, that is to say that every minute you receive a notification from them, and you need to ignore the group’s notice.

You ask yourself, is it possible to do it? The answer is yes, since WhatsApp has an option that allows you to silence the contacts and groups that you have registered, you do this through the horn icon that appears in each group or contact.

Why does the ‘Horn’ icon appear in WhatsApp broadcast groups?

The horn in WhatsApp is an icon that is used for 2 situations, the first is when you silence a contact and the second is for distinguish a normal group from a diffusion group. If you don’t know what broadcast lists are and how to create them, don’t worry, it’s a fairly simple procedure.

In short, broadcast groups are used to send the same information to several contacts without the need to copy and paste the message over and over again, that is, a medium that is used to disseminate massively content.

If you are still wondering why the horn icon appears when creating the group, the answer is very simple, it is because the list serves to transmit information and not to interact between the contacts, so much so that the members of these groups they can’t tell they belong on a broadcast list.

Another quite versatile option that the WhatsApp app has is that it allows you to silence any user who writes to you even if they do not belong to your contacts, to do so you must do the following.

• First enter the App and go to the contact you want to silence.
• Open the chat and look for the upper section where the 3 points appear.
• There you will click on the option that says mute notifications and voila, you will have silenced the contact.

But if what you want is to prevent a number from writing to you, silencing it will not work, in that case what you should do is block that contact from your list, thus preventing it from having any type of interaction with you.

To mute broadcast groups

Broadcast groups cannot be muted, since remember that these are lists that you create to issue communications and the contacts that belong to this cannot interact with each other. In case you want to silence a member you must do it with the previous procedure, that is to say in a particular way.

Can a muted person see WhatsApp statuses?

If what you want to know is if silenced people can see your statuses, the answer is yes. Remember that by silencing a contact the only thing you achieve is that the notifications do not reach the phone, all the other options will continue their normal operation.

For this reason, it is difficult to know if you were silenced by someone on WhatsApp, in case you cannot do it, check that your version is updated or download the app again from Google Play.

How many days can a person be muted on WhatsApp?

WhatsApp allows you to silence the contact you need during different periods of time, when doing so you must select if you want stay quiet for 8 hours, 1 week or in the most extreme cases indefinitely. But don’t worry, if you need to reactivate the notifications you can do it, as follows.

• Find the contact that is muted.
• Then, you enter the upper menu, where the 3 points are located.
• There you must activate the notifications of the contact or group by clicking on “mute notifications”.

Finally, WhatsApp is one of the apps that are most used around the world, however it is still there are many users who are unaware of part of its functions. If this is your case and you want to know more about this application, keep visiting all the sections that we have for you and become an expert using WhatsApp.