If someone is being annoying on Twitch, blocking them is easy: just punch theirTwitch name.

If you’re on mobile, you should see theBlockoption pop up in the user menu that pops up.

Then, clickBlock [name].

Gboard’s editing mode on an Android phone.

Twitch will quickly remind you what a blocked person can and cannot do.

If you’re okay with this, clickBlock.

you’re free to unblock someone by clicking on their card and selectingUnblock.

Person holding the Google Pixel 8a showing the apps menu

But this only works for a very recent block.

If you could’t see their messages, you could’t click their name to unblock them!

First, punch your profile at the top right, then clickSettings.

Someone using Twitch on their phone

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press theSecurity and Privacytab at the top.

Next, scroll down to thePrivacysection, then find theBlocked Userssection.

Twitch will then load a list of everyone you’ve blocked and the date that you blocked them.

Blocking someone on Twitch

Click theUnblockbutton adjacent to the user you’d like to unblock.

Twitch will save the changes immediately and remove the user from your block list.

This is because, weirdly enough, the Android app is missing a feature that the iOS version has.

The block confirmation screen on Twitch

Strangely, the blocked user list never made it over from iOS.

After that, follow the steps above for unblocking Twitch users via parameters.

twitch settings menu

twitch settings show blocked users

Viewing blocked users on Twitch

Twitch Settings page in iOS

Blocked users in Twitch’s Security & Privacy page on iOS