That means it’s entirely possible to avoid spoilers for your favorite new movie or game. Or to avoid conversations about topics that tend to get overblown or overheated. If you want to avoid politics, for instance, that’s actually easy enough to accomplish. And the same goes for any other topic or turn of phrase. Effectively removing posts with those words or phrases from your feed. Going through the steps to figure all of that out, however, isn’t nearly as straightforward. And that’s for the same reasons as some of our other how-to guides. Namely, because there are different steps to follow on mobile and on desktop. But also because iOS — for iPhones and iPads — differ from Android. So that’s exactly what this guide sets out to explain.
How to mute words or phrases on Twitter
As noted above, the process for working out how to mute words or phrases on Twitter isn’t as easy as following a single set of steps across all platforms. Unfortunately, that also means that, since we don’t have an iPhone or iPad on hand to show the steps, there aren’t going to be any accompanying images below for the iOS segment. But, of course, if you’re on this site, that likely doesn’t matter much to you. Before getting started, there are a few points worth noting, however. Namely, you don’t need to use words or phrases with different capitalization or punctuation. Twitter will automatically ignore both. You can also mute mentions of accounts this way — but not the accounts themselves, as there’s a different process for that — by muting “@” and then the username or handle. Hashtags are also muted via this function, which is worth being aware of. Now, without further ado, let’s get started.
From your iPhone
On an Android device …or iOS
Android doesn’t feature the same on-post, context menu-based option to get to the muting page. However, just as with iOS, you can use the full Twitter menu. So learning how to mute words or phrases in Twitter posts on the world’s most popular mobile OS is also possible. And, if you need to regain access to muted words on iOS, this segment of the guide will help.
How to mute words on desktop Twitter
