How to mute and unmute your microphone in Meta Horizon Worlds

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Muting your own microphone can be crucial in moments where you don't want to be heard or to avoid background noises.

Meta Quest

Mobile device

Computer

To mute and unmute your microphone on Meta Quest, turn over your left wrist and select the Microphone icon.
You are automatically muted when you start a new session from your browser or in-app. To change your settings, tap or click the Microphone icon.

Note: On Meta Quest, you will remain muted until you re-enter Horizon Worlds or unmute yourself.

Mute other people in Meta Horizon Worlds

If you don’t want to hear from someone, you can mute them. You will no longer be able to hear them for your current world session.

There are a few ways you can mute people from your headset:

Hover over the person’s name tag, then select Mute.
You can select it again to unmute them.

Or:

From the main menu in Meta Horizon Worlds, select People to view Nearby people.
Hover over the person’s profile card, then select .
Select Mute.

Muting by creators and admins

Creators and their designated admins have additional moderation tools to govern their spaces like "Mute for World". If someone is muted using this option:

They can't be heard by anyone in that world.
The mute lasts for two hours, but a creator or admin can unmute them at any point.

Use mute assist in Meta Horizon Worlds

In worlds that have the mute assist feature turned on, your audio data will be reviewed to detect profanity, potentially offensive words, shouting, and other loud noises, so that you can quickly mute the source of it.

Mute assist is a moderation feature in Meta Horizon Worlds that automatically mutes or lets you quickly mute people you don’t know who make loud sounds, or use profanity or potentially offensive language. Your audio data will be deleted after mute assist is triggered. If you don’t want your audio data reviewed you can turn off your microphone. Only use party audio in party only mode while in the world, start a closed session of the world, or join another world that does not have mute assist enabled.

To turn on mute assist:

In Meta Horizon Worlds, open Settings then select Safety & Wellbeing.
Select mute assist and then select a sensitivity level:
- Off: You won’t receive any alerts.
- Low: Profanity is okay, but get the option to mute people who say potentially offensive words a lot.
- Medium: Get the option to mute people who say profanity or potentially offensive words repeatedly.
- High: Mute people who say profanity or offensive words even a few times.

When your microphone is set to OFF, an icon will appear on tyour screen showing that your microphone is muted. If your microphone is ON, the icon will indicate that the microphone has been unmuted. In your headset, the microphone indicator will only appear while you are speaking. When you're on a mobile device or computer, the microphone indicator will remain present even when you're not speaking. This feature will be turned on by default, but you can choose to turn it off in the Sound settings tab.

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