Threads is trying to give customers extra management over the in-app expertise, with a brand new choice to disguise posts that embrace particular phrases out of your feed, in addition to the capability to mute notifications for interactions together 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 is able to then exclude posts that embrace these components from their feed, search outcomes and profile view.

So for instance, if you happen to don’t wish to learn something about “X’ or “Elon Musk”, that are each fashionable 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 again in 2021. It’s now additionally obtainable in your IG feed, offering further choices for curating your in-app expertise.

It may very well be a great way to eliminate the junk out of your Threads stream, particularly if there’s that one matter of dialog that you simply actually don’t care about, however it retains developing.

You could find the brand new “Hidden Phrases” choice in your Threads settings.

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

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

I imply, if you happen to’re getting so many notifications that they’ve change into tiresome, good for you, I assume, although there may be particular worth in having the ability to mute notifications a few submit which will have gained consideration for lower than preferrred causes.

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

These are useful updates, which is able to put extra management over your in-app expertise in your arms. They usually may very well be extremely helpful for these coping with undesirable consideration, or if you happen to 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 as we speak.