Change your availability status & mute notifications - Google Chat
- Sam Kardasz
To let others know when you're available, you can change your Google Chat status.
Status
Understand your availability status
Only people you share a space with or someone you've accepted a chat invite from can see your status. Blocked users won’t ever be able to see your status.
What happens when you mute notifications
You can temporarily mute notifications on all your devices from Google Chat or Gmail. To stop notifications completely, turn notifications off. If you temporarily mute notifications, people can tell how long you paused notifications so they don’t expect an immediate response.
With your Google Workspace account, your Calendar status will automatically update your Chat status to out of office, in a meeting, or in focused time.
You can override these automatic statuses with your own custom status.
Change your status
On your computer, open Gmail.
At the top right, next to your status indicator, click the Down arrow .
Choose: Automatic, Do not disturb, or Set as away.
Set a custom status
Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
From your status indicator at the top, click the Down arrow .
Click Add a status.
Follow the prompt to choose an emoji, write a status message, or end or clear a status.
Click Done.
Delete a custom status
Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
From your status indicator at the top, click the Down arrow .
Click the status to delete.
Click X.
Click Done.
Notifications
Temporarily stop notifications in Google Chat or Gmail
Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
At the top, click your status.
Select Do not disturb.
To set your preferred duration, select a duration from the list or click "Until a specific time."
Click Set.
Notifications automatically turn back on after the mute duration expires. To end mute sooner, click your status > Do not disturb > Turn off Do not disturb.
Schedule time for paused notifications in Google Chat or Gmail
Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
At the top, click your status.
Select Do not disturb > Set a do not disturb schedule.
Under “Do not disturb schedules,” click Create new.
Enter details of the times that you want to pause notifications, then click Save.
Optional: To match your time zone to your do not disturb schedule:
Open the Settings menu .
Check the box and click Save.
