I usually mute notifications for specific groups/posters only. The groups can be particularly annoying if they have lots of activity, and some people like to give me a play-by-play of their entire day (e.g. I'm getting ready to have lunch at Shake Shack now).

Originally Posted by Cryofern View Post"If the in-app WeChat settings aren't cutting it for you, go play around in your operating system settings:
Settings > Apps & notifications > App info > WeChat > App notifications > (choose a category) > Importance > Medium: No sound"

My WeChat app notifications gives me different options than yours. I do have the option to show "notification dot" which I haven't seen before, which is what I think I am looking for. I am leaving on voice and video call invitations, which probably means my phone will ring if I get a call, which is something I want to happen. Thanks much to you and plunet.

If there are people who you want to be able to call you any time, simply don't mute their notifications. For others, I prefer to schedule Wechat phone calls in advance because I don't want my phone ringing when I'm in a meeting or at the gym. Even if you mute notifications, you can see who's messaged or tried to call you ask often as you like.

All I want to do is simply have a dot appear on my home screen in the way my text messaging works. I am attaching screenshots showing my system that doesn't appear to work that way.
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Message notification has important category, but I can't do anything with it. Don't see why I can't simply choose to have dot notifications of messages and not sound notifications.
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Chats screen doesn't seem to have a messaging option on my system like it appears to have on yours.

Also, I will experiment with friends messaging me and see if I can stumble on something that works. Thanks for all of your help.

Just add moondogsh as a contact. After we are connected, I will add you to the group

They say....'if you know the answer, it's simple'!!

So, if anyone can help me who is more tech savvy than myself, which I guess is most people, I would be grateful as I have looked everywhere through my iPhone (11) and cannot find an answer!

Is it possible to change the 'alert' notification sound for incoming WeChat messages?

Help!
 

Once again my wife's Wechat account seems to have blown up. Last time we gave up and simply made a new one.

The password I have written down doesn't seem to work. The mobile number showing on the account I do not recognize--I think maybe it's an old number that has since been changed and I'm sure I updated it on Wechat. Her iPad is logged in but effectively unusable--if her sister calls it will ring but she can't answer, everything else just shows a network error. There's no problem with YouTube on it, though--the network is most certainly working.

It is not anything in the network path, either--as I write this she's using my account off my PC to talk to her sister, no problems.

Any ideas?

Can you scan QR codes with your wife's iPad WeChat? If you can you may be able to log onto another device that way.

If not then have you attempted the account recovery process? If you have previously designated at least three other WeChat accounts as your emergency contacts that makes the recovery process much easier.

All accounts have one contact called "WeChat Team" or the equivalent Chinese name if you are using a Chinese version. If you are able to send messages to that contact, explain your situation and they will presumably set you straight. I've created new accounts (using different phone numbers) in the past when I've had urgent needs, and this always works, but I always want to keep my main account active because it has lots of contacts, and is connected to my bank/passport/WP/RP/health code/loyalty programs...pretty much everything I need to function in this country. Apart from situations when my main account is giving me headaches, I value my secondary accounts because I can send them photos or drafts of documents I'm working on and later grab them from any device.

You probably know, but that's what the "file transfer" contact is for. It's to send stuff to yourself.

I don't know:D, but USA Eric, Eric USA, and America Eric are all pretty easy.

I was out all day, when I got home last night I decided to see if anything along those lines was possible--and it's working fine! Absolutely no changes on our end, their system must have had some sort of hiccup. I am going to look into the account recovery stuff for future reference, I didn't know it existed.

And on my PC I'm not finding any "emergency contact" setting. Phone only, perhaps?

A lot of functions are either phone only, or much more intuitive on the phone versions. I think emergency contacts is phone only, but I can't state this with 100% confidence because it's possible that it's buried somewhere on the PC/Mac versions.

The "WeChat Team" contact is available on PC/Mac, and I've had good results fixing problems...apart from not being able to connect my BOC account (they want me to go into a BOC branch and ask them to swap my first and last names; that's not going to happen; thankfully Alipay isn't anal about this).

Following is a checklist of items if you want your WeChat account to be fully functional during your China trips:
-use a Chinese phone number that fulfills the real name registration requirement
-connect your WeChat account to one bank account; it doesn't matter if you actually use this bank account; you simply need it for WeChat pay to work at all
-get the health code miniprogram
-set 3 emergency contacts, and also use an easy (for you) password