Threads Provides Hidden Phrases and Submit Notification Controls

Threads is trying to give customers extra management over the in-app expertise, with a brand new choice to hide posts that include specific terms from your feed, in addition to the capability to mute notifications for interactions along with your posts.

First off, on hidden phrases. Now, Threads customers will have the ability to specify phrases, phrases, and emojis that they don’t wish to see, which can then exclude posts that embody these parts from their feed, search outcomes and profile view.

So for instance, when you don’t wish to learn something about “X’ or “Elon Musk”, that are each widespread subjects of debate within the app, you’ll now have the ability to exclude them out of your view, and maintain your timeline as you prefer it.

The choice replicates the identical on Instagram, which Meta first added to DMs back in 2021. It’s now additionally out there for your IG feed, offering further choices for curating your in-app expertise.

It could possibly be a great way to do away with the junk out of your Threads stream, particularly if there’s that one matter of dialog that you simply actually don’t care about, but it surely retains developing.

You’ll find the brand new “Hidden Words” choice in your Threads settings.

The opposite new replace is the power to mute notifications for interactions along with your posts.

So when you’re sick of seeing updates in your notifications about how persons are participating with a particular replace, now you can change them off, saving you from getting alerts about the identical.

I imply, when you’re getting so many notifications that they’ve change into tiresome, good for you, I suppose, although there’s particular worth in having the ability to mute notifications a couple of put up that will have gained consideration for lower than ultimate causes.

Along with this, the Threads crew says that it’s additionally began testing quote controls, which can allow customers to dictate who can quote their unique Threads posts. Customers can even have the ability to “unquote themselves” if somebody quotes their posts.

These are helpful updates, which can put extra management over your in-app expertise in your fingers. And so they could possibly be extremely helpful for these coping with undesirable consideration, or when you simply don’t wish to see stuff about sure folks or topics anymore.

Each hidden phrases and notification controls are being rolled out to all Threads customers from at the moment.