WhatsApp, don't want to block but...

[CaptainCanary]

Is there any way to temporarily restrict messages from certain contacts?

I'm on holiday next week and I know that a colleague is going to call or message me regardless. She does almost daily. I've already said I'm going away, I won't be available for work calls/messages but I'd really like to make sure I'm left alone! I'm one level above her in terms of management so I don't really want to block as that feels unprofessional, but at the same time there will be two other members of management covering the entire week, so there's really no need for her to contact me. I've tried to gently say this before when she's called on my days off but she says that she's most comfortable calling me as I did most of her training and she works with me more often than the others...

Can you just mute the chat? That way it will show on her phone as unread?

Tell her you’ll be turning roaming off

You can mute and archive the chat! Means you won't get notifications / see the messages when you open WhatsApp, they'll be in the archived section.

Then when you're back from holiday, you can unarchive the chat and it'll pop right back into the main section. It doesn't notify people they've been archived either, she'll just see it's been delivered but not read from my understanding 😊

You can't temporarily restrict but you can mute notifications from a contact. Her calls and messages will still come through, but you just won't receive notifications until you open the WhatsApp app and you can then either chose to reply or not. Depending on whether your account is used solely for business, if it is, you could change your account to WhatsApp business and that way you can add an 'out of office' sort of message which she will receive when attempting to contact.

I hadn't thought of archiving and didn't realise I could mute call notifications for specific contacts as well as messages! That should do the job