How to Mute Words on X (Twitter): iPhone, Android and Web

To mute words on X (formerly Twitter), open Notifications, tap the gear icon, then Muted words, and add the word. On the web, the path is Settings and privacy → Privacy and safety → Mute and block → Muted words. You choose whether the mute applies to your Home timeline, your notifications or both, and for how long: forever (the default), 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.

You can mute single words, phrases, @usernames, emojis and hashtags. Posts that contain them disappear from your Home timeline, your notifications (including push, SMS and email) and the replies under posts (X Help: advanced mute options).

How to mute words on X on iPhone

1. Go to your Notifications tab.
2. Tap the gear icon.
3. Tap Muted, then Muted words.
4. Tap Add.
5. Type the word or hashtag. You can add only one entry at a time.
6. Choose whether to mute it in your Home timeline, your Notifications, or both.
7. For notifications, choose From anyone or From people you don’t follow.
8. Tap For how long? and pick Forever, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
9. Tap Save, then Done.

How to mute words on X on Android

1. Go to your Notifications tab.
2. Tap the gear icon.
3. Tap Muted words.
4. Tap the plus icon.
5. Type the word or hashtag, one entry at a time.
6. Choose Home timeline, Notifications, or both.
7. For notifications, choose Anyone or From people you don’t follow.
8. Tap For how long? and pick a duration.
9. Tap Save.

How to mute words on Twitter on desktop

1. Click More in the side menu, then Settings and privacy.
2. Click Privacy and safety, then Mute and block.
3. Click Muted words, then the plus icon.
4. Enter the word or hashtag.
5. Check Home timeline and/or Notifications.
6. Choose From anyone or From people you don’t follow.
7. Under Mute timing, pick Forever, 24 hours from now, 7 days from now or 30 days from now.
8. Click Save.

How X matches muted words

X’s rules for muted words, from its help center:

You mute…	What gets muted
CATS	“cats” in any case: muting is case-insensitive
unicorn	Both “unicorn” and “#unicorn”
A phrase, such as season finale	Posts containing that phrase
@username (with the @)	Posts that mention that account, not the account itself
An emoji	Posts containing that emoji

You can include punctuation inside a word or phrase, but you don’t need it at the end. Muting works in every language X supports, and X won’t recommend content containing your muted words by email or on X.

To hide an account rather than the posts that mention it, mute the account itself: open its profile, tap or click the more icon and select Mute. To end a follow without blocking, see how to remove followers on X.

What muted words don’t hide

• Search results. X says “you will still see these posts via search.” To filter search, use search operators such as -word to exclude a term.
• Notifications you asked for. If you turned on mobile notifications for an account’s posts, those still arrive even when the post contains a muted word.
• Media warnings. Muting doesn’t change how X handles sensitive images and videos. That’s a separate setting: see how to turn off sensitive content on X.

If you only muted a word for Notifications, it still shows in your Home timeline. Open the word in your list and add Home timeline.

How to edit or unmute a word

1. Open your Muted words list (same path as above).
2. Tap or click the word or hashtag.
3. Change Mute from, or the timing (Extend mute time on Android and web), and save.
4. To unmute it, tap Delete word and confirm (in the app), or click the muted button next to it (on the web).

How to mute a conversation

To stop notifications from a busy thread, open any post in it, click or tap the more icon and select Mute this conversation. You won’t get new notifications about it, but you’ll still see its posts in your timeline.

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