Mobile phones

[Mups]

Couldn't find a specific section for this,  so have put it here.

To those in the know,  this is probably an incredibly daft question,  but here goes anyway.

It's about WhatsApp.
I don't want them keep sending me messages about games and stuff I am not interested in,  so I went into Settings and blocked the WhatsApp messages.

Thinking about it since,  does that mean I have gone and blocked messages from What'sApp friends as well?

[klondike]

Blocking the whats app thread won't block your contacts. It seems to be something relatively new. It doesn't bother me as I don't look and have muted its notificattions. I do occasionally  clear it out as it will use a bit of phone memory but probably not much. Your question reminded me to. It said it that used a couple of kB since sometime in December which is peanuts.

[Mups]

Blocking the whats app thread won't block your contacts. It seems to be something relatively new. It doesn't bother me as I don't look and have muted its notificattions. I do occasionally  clear it out as it will use a bit of phone memory but probably not much. Your question reminded me to. It said it that used a couple of kB since sometime in December which is peanuts.

No,  what I meant was,  will it block friends/family  messaging me?   I didn't mean block my contact list. 

The reason I don't want the ads is because if it keeps pinging, I think someone wants me but its just another blinkin'  advert.
If I do as you just said,  and mute it,  then I won't hear when a proper message has come through, will I?


(Sorry,  I know what I mean, just can't express it very well)!

[klondike]

If you just blocked the feed it won't block anything other than the feed. 
You could have just muted notifications for the feed which is what I did although they don't actually arrive all that often anyway.

Click on the feed in your app. Click the three dots top right. You can see what you have got set for it. 

If instead of muting feed notifications you blocked the feed no problem. If you went into the phone settings and blocked notifications for the entire app then you'll still get messages but won't be notified that they arrived.

[Mups]

Thank you so much Klondike,   I will have a fiddle with it and come back to you later.   

[Mups]

Right,  I saw

If you just blocked the feed it won't block anything other than the feed.
You could have just muted notifications for the feed which is what I did although they don't actually arrive all that often anyway.

Click on the feed in your app. Click the three dots top right. You can see what you have got set for it.

If instead of muting feed notifications you blocked the feed no problem. If you went into the phone settings and blocked notifications for the entire app then you'll still get messages but won't be notified that they arrived.

Right I went into the App,  found the three dots,  and it says - 'mute notifications.' 
Then after I opened that bit,  it said - 'Other members will not see that you muted this chat.  You will still be notified if you are mentioned.'   

What other members?  There's only me?  I don't belong to any group chat stuff, so I haven't a clue what it means,  so I just came out of it again.

As I tried to explain before,  I just want hear the ping when a new message comes through,  but want to stop the silly adverts.   
The adverts seem to be a new thing  (perhaps since the last update?), I never used to get them until recently.

[klondike]

I've not looked at it. I assume it is a group chat with all users being members.

I don't know if it carries ads or not because like I said I don't look at it. It must have beeped and annoyed me though because I muted notifications from it. 

Now it doesn't beep. I don't look. So... it doesn't annoy me. You can probably delete it just like any other contact if just seeing it there annoys you. I imagine if they use it for ads it may return though.