zulip/templates/zerver/help/mute-a-topic.md

# Mute a topic

If you would like to stop receiving notifications from a certain topic, you can
choose to mute it.

There are two main ways of muting a topic; you can mute a topic through the
stream list or through your view.

## Muting a topic through the stream list

1. Find the stream list located at the left sidebar.

    ![Left sidebar](/static/images/help/left-sidebar.png)

2. In the stream list, click on the stream that the topic you want to mute
belongs to. Upon clicking on the stream, a dropdown with all the topics in the
stream will appear.

    ![Stream topic dropdown](/static/images/help/mute-stream-1.png)

3. In the stream list dropdown, hover over the topic to reveal a chevron
(![chevron](/static/images/help/chevron.png)) icon to the right of the topic.

    ![Stream topic dropdown chevron hover](/static/images/help/topic-chevron-hover.png)

4. Upon clicking on the topic's chevron
(![chevron](/static/images/help/chevron.png)) icon, a dropdown with topic
actions will appear. To mute the topic, simply select the **Mute the topic (topic name)**
option from the dropdown.

    ![Stream topic dropdown mute topic](/static/images/help/mute-topic.png)

5. Upon clicking **Mute the topic (topic name)**, a tooltip titled **Topic Muted** will
appear, and the topic will be grayed out in the stream list dropdown, confirming
the success of your muting of the topic.

    ![Topic mute success](/static/images/help/topic-muted.png)

## Muting a topic through your view

1. The default **Home** view displays all messages from unmuted streams and topics
that you've subscribed to. You can choose to search for messages belonging to
the topic that you wish to mute in the **Home** view.

    Alternatively, you can narrow your view to messages sent to the topic that
    you want to mute by entering the search operator `topic:(topic name)` in the
    search bar.

    ![Topic search](/static/images/help/topic-spam-search.png)

2. Once you locate some messages belonging to the topic you want to mute, hover
over of the topic's messages to reveal a chevron
(![chevron](/static/images/help/chevron.png)) icon that replaces the timestamp
of the message.

    ![Chevron message hover](/static/images/help/chevron-message-hover.png)

3. Upon clicking on the chevron (![chevron](/static/images/help/chevron.png)) icon,
a dropdown with message actions will appear. To mute the topic of the message,
simply select the **Mute the topic (topic name)** option from the dropdown.

    ![Chevron message dropdown](/static/images/help/message-mute-topic.png)

4. Upon clicking **Mute the topic (topic name)**, a tooltip titled **Topic Muted** will
 appear, and any messages belonging to the topic will disappear from your view,
 confirming the success of your muting of the topic.

    ![Topic mute success](/static/images/help/topic-mute-success.png)