Hide public Rooms without leaving them
Keep public Rooms in a collapsed section or remove them from the Ping tab while their Pings remain available in History.
You follow public Rooms for service updates, a local group, and an event. They are useful when something happens. They do not all need to sit beside the private Rooms you use every day.
PingRoom’s current Android beta gives you two levels of control. Public Rooms collect in their own collapsed section by default. If you want a quieter Ping tab, a new setting hides them from that list and its search while their Pings remain in History.
This changes the view, not the relationship. It does not leave the Room, mute it, delete it, or discard its History.
As of September 24, this is available in PingRoom 1.5.3 for Android beta, build 73. PingRoom’s beta page links to that exact build. The public App Store version remains 1.5.2, and we are not claiming that the currently linked iOS beta includes this control.
On the cover: Pingo the Pigeon™, our official mascot and fictional CMO, has filed the public-Room tokens and is already walking away. AI-generated editorial artwork using approved Pingo references; not an app screen, customer scene, or claim that Pingo can access a Room.
Start with the collapsed section
Install Android beta build 73 and open the Ping tab. Public Rooms that are not pinned or placed in one of your folders now collect under Public rooms. The section starts collapsed, so a status update cannot keep moving a public Room back into the middle of your everyday list.
Select the section when you want to see those Rooms. PingRoom remembers whether you leave it open or closed on that device.
Your choices still take precedence:
- A public Room in a folder stays in that folder.
- A pinned public Room stays with the other ungrouped Rooms.
- A public Room with neither choice goes into the automatic section.
The automatic section organizes what is already there. It does not change the folders you created.
Hide public Rooms from the Ping tab
If a collapsed section is still more than you want in the main list:
- Open Settings.
- Find the Rooms section.
- Turn on Hide public rooms.
Public Rooms disappear from the Ping tab, including its Room search. Private and Personal Rooms stay where you arranged them.
Pingo’s records table is an editorial metaphor for the setting: fewer items in the immediate view, with the rest still preserved behind it. The real control is saved on your device. Pingo cannot see your memberships, change the setting, or inspect your History.
History still carries the Pings
Open History when you want the timeline across those public Rooms. Hiding a Room from the Ping tab does not erase its Pings or remove your membership.
It also does not mute notifications. If a public Room is sending more alerts than you want, use that Room’s mute control separately. The list setting answers a different question: where should this Room appear when you are choosing what to open or Ping?
If every Room in your main list is public, hiding them leaves the Ping tab intentionally empty and points you to History. Turn Hide public rooms off whenever you want the Rooms back in the list. Your folders and membership are still intact.
Set the view on each device
The hide preference and the automatic section’s open or closed state are stored on the device. They do not rearrange the same list on another phone for you.
That boundary can be useful. You might keep public Rooms visible on a tablet used for browsing, while an everyday phone shows only the private and Personal Rooms you act on most often.
To try the control now, install Android beta build 73, then keep public Rooms collapsed or hide them from the list on that device.
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