[Feature Request] Sync muted conversations between devices

[elya5]

• [x ] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates

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Bug description

I have a group that is muted on my phone (Signal-Android). Signal-Desktop however still sends desktop notifications when a message appears in that group.

Steps to reproduce

• Mute conversation on phone
• Open Signal-Desktop and wait for a message in that conversation

Actual result: Notification appears
Expected result: No Notification

Platform info

Operating System: Linux
Signal version: 1.0.35

[scottnonnenberg]

@elya5 Thanks for reporting this. We don't currently sync that 'muted' state between devices, so I've changed this to a feature request.

[kpuljek]

Just moved a couple of friends from FB to Signal and this is the first thing they complained about. :S

[bgcarlisle]

Yeah this is very extremely bad

[deutrino]

Related to #815

[shuffle2]

I think it's also the same as #729
This issue has been around for 2-3years now...maybe time for actually implementing this feature?

[ventz]

It seems like there is a pull request for dev on this but it was put on hold?

#1310

Any news about this? It seems like a pretty significant feature, and given it's already implemented in mobile, it should be pretty easy to implement in the desktop...

[clottman]

What's the status on this? It's super annoying in group messages, but I have personal chats whose notifications I don't want to miss.

[kisielk]

Even if they weren't synced and it was possible to mute separately on the desktop that would be a huge improvement.

[deutrino]

See also #815.

[ideologysec]

unfortunately, #815 was locked to contributors, which is... disheartening and annoying to say the least. I'm also not clear why; there's been several pull requests and no actual progress.

Here's hoping all of the team growth and capital infusion can help move this feature along!

[kenpowers-signal]

@shesek In order to help protect the security of Signal users, we do not condone or support pasting code snippets into the developer console. This also isn't behavior that we want to normalize or promote on the issue tracker because it could make future troubleshooting more difficult.

[kiplingw]

I'm not sure if this is the same problem that I am having: If I mute a conversation, such as a large group channel, the unread message count is still incremented from the muted channel in the desktop client. Further, the muted group keeps unarchiving itself each time a new message is received in it.

Is this the same as what people are describing above, or does anyone recommend a different issue that already has been created?

[hiqua]

@kiplingw this is working as intended, and it's not a bug.

For the unarchiving thing, see: https://community.signalusers.org/t/do-not-un-archive-muted-conversations/6165/5
For the counter, iOS-specific thread (but the design is consistent across clients): https://community.signalusers.org/t/muting-group-chat-should-disable-chat-s-badge-notifications/5697

[EvanHahn-Signal]

@kiplingw This is working as intended. For more detail on the behavior you're seeing:

1. Muted conversations still have an unread message count, and this is true on all of Signal's clients. If you want to disable the app badge for muted conversations app-wide, you can do that in the settings. See the "Count muted conversations in badge count" option.
2. Receiving a message in an archived conversation will un-archive it, regardless of its mute status.

I'm going to close this issue because the original request has been resolved—mute settings are synced across your devices. If there's an additional feature request, please open a feature request. If there's an additional bug here, please open a new issue.

[kiplingw]

Thanks @hiqua and @EvanHahn-Signal. For the unread message count issue, it looks like this has already been fixed. In fact, I should have checked to see that I actually already had it enabled!

For the muted thread unarchiving itself issue, I've just posted on that thread a suggestion for how to implement a possible fix.