Send a Direct Message to Someone in Google Chat
Initiate a one-to-one chat.
You can block anyone you want to prevent from sending you direct messages.
You can also block chat spaces. However, you can’t block people within chat spaces – you can only remove them.
You can unblock someone you blocked at any time, and you’ll be able to chat again.
When you block someone:
In Google Chat https://chat.google.com, while chatting with someone full-screen, click their name on top of the chat. Then select Block.
If you have minimized the chat, click the three dots icon on its top right and select Block.
Click the Block button to confirm.
Initiate a one-to-one chat.
Confirm that you want to start a chat with someone requesting to chat with you.
View a one-to-one chat or space in a full-screen chat window, or minimize it.
Pin a chat to the top of your chats list or remove it from there.
Hide a chat from your chats list.
Delete a chat from your chats list, along with your copy of the chat history.
Turn history on or off to control the saving of chat messages.
Enable or disable notifications for a specific chat.
Add a bot to a direct one-to-one chat session.
Stop someone from ever chatting with you again.
Remove a bot from a direct one-to-one chat session.
Remove someone from your blocked people list to start chatting again.
Send direct messages to a bot.
Remove a bot from your chats list.
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