diff --git a/landing/competitor-data.js b/landing/competitor-data.js
--- a/landing/competitor-data.js
+++ b/landing/competitor-data.js
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         ],
       },
       {
-        title: 'Background tab',
+        title: 'Muted tab',
         comingSoon: false,
         competitorDescriptionShort:
           'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque vulputate vestibulum leo, vel sollicitudin.',
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
           'Discord has a single function to mute notifs from a chat. You can mute notifs temporarily or permanently.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Background” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
+          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Muted” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
         ],
       },
       {
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
           'Keybase has a single function to mute notifs from a chat.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Background” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
+          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Muted” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
         ],
       },
     ],
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
           'Signal has a single function to mute notifs from a chat.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Background” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
+          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Muted” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
         ],
       },
     ],
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
           'Slack has several features for managing notifs across a whole community. However, when it comes to managing notifs from a specific chat, Slack is more limited. There’s only one option, which is to completely mute a chat.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Background” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
+          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Muted” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
         ],
       },
       {
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
           'Telegram supports temporary muting notifs from a chat, disabling message previews, and changing the notification sound associated with a chat.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Background” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
+          'Comm allows you to manage notif alerts separately from notif badging (unread icon). Comm also sorts muted chats in a separate “Muted” tab in order to avoid cluttering your inbox.',
         ],
       },
       {
@@ -590,12 +590,12 @@
         competitorDescriptionShort:
           'Telegram has a Chat Folders feature, but it’s not easy to move a noisy chat out of your inbox.',
         commDescriptionShort:
-          'When you disable notifs for a chat, Comm moves it out of your inbox into a separate Background tab.',
+          'When you disable notifs for a chat, Comm moves it out of your inbox into a separate Muted tab.',
         competitorDescriptionLong: [
           'Telegram has a Chat Folders feature. Your primary inbox always shows all chats, but Chat Folders can be configured to show or hide a set of selected chats. If you want to separate all of your chats into two Chat Folders, it takes a lot of steps.',
         ],
         commDescriptionLong: [
-          'When you disable notifs for a chat, Comm moves it out of your inbox into a separate Background tab. The Background tab is a core primitive in Comm, and helps you separate signal from noise.',
+          'When you disable notifs for a chat, Comm moves it out of your inbox into a separate Muted tab. The Muted tab is a core primitive in Comm, and helps you separate signal from noise.',
         ],
       },
       {
diff --git a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
--- a/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
+++ b/lib/shared/thread-utils.js
@@ -1174,9 +1174,9 @@
 // Consider updating itemHeight in native/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js
 // if you change this
 const emptyItemText: string =
-  `Background chats are just like normal chats, except they don't ` +
+  `Muted chats are just like normal chats, except they don't ` +
   `contribute to your unread count.\n\n` +
-  `To move a chat over here, switch the “Background” option in its settings.`;
+  `To move a chat over here, switch the “Muted” option in its settings.`;
 
 function threadNoun(threadType: ThreadType, parentThreadID: ?string): string {
   if (threadType === threadTypes.SIDEBAR) {
diff --git a/native/chat/background-chat-thread-list.react.js b/native/chat/background-chat-thread-list.react.js
--- a/native/chat/background-chat-thread-list.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/background-chat-thread-list.react.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import { Text, View } from 'react-native';
 
 import { unreadBackgroundCount } from 'lib/selectors/thread-selectors.js';
+import { threadSettingsNotificationsCopy } from 'lib/shared/thread-settings-notifications-utils.js';
 import {
   threadInBackgroundChatList,
   emptyItemText,
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@
       return;
     }
     prevUnreadNumber.current = unreadBackgroundThreadsNumber;
-    let title = 'Background';
+    let title = threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.MUTED;
     if (unreadBackgroundThreadsNumber !== 0) {
       title += ` (${unreadBackgroundThreadsNumber})`;
     }
diff --git a/native/chat/chat.react.js b/native/chat/chat.react.js
--- a/native/chat/chat.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/chat.react.js
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@
   MaterialTopTabNavigationHelpers<ScreenParamList>;
 
 const homeChatThreadListOptions = {
-  title: 'Focused',
+  title: threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.HOME,
   tabBarIcon: ({ color }: { +color: string, ... }) => (
     <SWMansionIcon name="home-1" size={22} style={{ color }} />
   ),
 };
 const backgroundChatThreadListOptions = {
-  title: 'Background',
+  title: threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.MUTED,
   tabBarIcon: ({ color }: { +color: string, ... }) => (
     <SWMansionIcon name="bell-disabled" size={22} style={{ color }} />
   ),
diff --git a/native/profile/default-notifications-preferences.react.js b/native/profile/default-notifications-preferences.react.js
--- a/native/profile/default-notifications-preferences.react.js
+++ b/native/profile/default-notifications-preferences.react.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   setUserSettingsActionTypes,
 } from 'lib/actions/user-actions.js';
 import { registerFetchKey } from 'lib/reducers/loading-reducer.js';
+import { threadSettingsNotificationsCopy } from 'lib/shared/thread-settings-notifications-utils.js';
 import {
   type UpdateUserSettingsRequest,
   type NotificationTypes,
@@ -154,19 +155,19 @@
         <Text style={styles.header}>NOTIFICATIONS</Text>
         <View style={styles.section}>
           <NotificationRow
-            content="Focused"
+            content={threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.HOME}
             onPress={this.selectAllNotifications}
             selected={notificationTypes.FOCUSED === selectedDefaultNotification}
           />
           <NotificationRow
-            content="Focused (badge only)"
+            content={threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.NOTIF_COUNT_ONLY}
             onPress={this.selectBackgroundNotifications}
             selected={
               notificationTypes.BADGE_ONLY === selectedDefaultNotification
             }
           />
           <NotificationRow
-            content="Background"
+            content={threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.MUTED}
             onPress={this.selectNoneNotifications}
             selected={
               notificationTypes.BACKGROUND === selectedDefaultNotification
diff --git a/web/chat/chat-tabs.react.js b/web/chat/chat-tabs.react.js
--- a/web/chat/chat-tabs.react.js
+++ b/web/chat/chat-tabs.react.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import { unreadBackgroundCount } from 'lib/selectors/thread-selectors.js';
+import { threadSettingsNotificationsCopy } from 'lib/shared/thread-settings-notifications-utils.js';
 
 import css from './chat-tabs.css';
 import ChatThreadList from './chat-thread-list.react.js';
@@ -11,27 +12,27 @@
 import Tabs, { type TabData } from '../components/tabs.react.js';
 import { useSelector } from '../redux/redux-utils.js';
 
-type TabType = 'Background' | 'Focus';
+type TabType = 'Home' | 'Muted';
 
 function ChatTabs(): React.Node {
-  let backgroundTitle = 'Background';
+  let mutedTitle = threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.MUTED;
   const unreadBackgroundCountVal = useSelector(unreadBackgroundCount);
   if (unreadBackgroundCountVal) {
-    backgroundTitle += ` (${unreadBackgroundCountVal})`;
+    mutedTitle += ` (${unreadBackgroundCountVal})`;
   }
 
   const tabsData: $ReadOnlyArray<TabData<TabType>> = React.useMemo(
     () => [
       {
-        id: 'Focus',
-        header: 'Focused',
+        id: 'Home',
+        header: threadSettingsNotificationsCopy.HOME,
       },
       {
-        id: 'Background',
-        header: backgroundTitle,
+        id: 'Muted',
+        header: mutedTitle,
       },
     ],
-    [backgroundTitle],
+    [mutedTitle],
   );
 
   const threadListContext = React.useContext(ThreadListContext);
diff --git a/web/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js b/web/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js
--- a/web/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js
+++ b/web/chat/chat-thread-list.react.js
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     state => state.navInfo.chatMode === 'create',
   );
 
-  const isBackground = activeTab === 'Background';
+  const isMuted = activeTab === 'Muted';
 
   const communityID = useSelector(state => state.communityPickerStore.chat);
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
   const threadListContainer = React.useMemo(() => {
     const items: Item[] = [{ type: 'search' }, ...threads];
 
-    if (isBackground && threads.length === 0) {
+    if (isMuted && threads.length === 0) {
       items.push({ type: 'empty' });
     }
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
         )}
       </AutoSizer>
     );
-  }, [isBackground, threads]);
+  }, [isMuted, threads]);
 
   return (
     <>
diff --git a/web/chat/thread-list-provider.js b/web/chat/thread-list-provider.js
--- a/web/chat/thread-list-provider.js
+++ b/web/chat/thread-list-provider.js
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   activeChatThreadItem as activeChatThreadItemSelector,
 } from '../selectors/chat-selectors.js';
 
-type ChatTabType = 'Focus' | 'Background';
+type ChatTabType = 'Home' | 'Muted';
 type ThreadListContextType = {
   +activeTab: ChatTabType,
   +setActiveTab: (newActiveTab: ChatTabType) => void,
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   +children: React.Node,
 };
 function ThreadListProvider(props: ThreadListProviderProps): React.Node {
-  const [activeTab, setActiveTab] = React.useState('Focus');
+  const [activeTab, setActiveTab] = React.useState('Home');
 
   const activeChatThreadItem = useSelector(activeChatThreadItemSelector);
   const activeThreadInfo = activeChatThreadItem?.threadInfo;
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
     activeTopLevelThreadInfo?.currentUser.subscription.home;
 
   const activeTopLevelThreadIsFromDifferentTab =
-    (activeTab === 'Focus' && activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab) ||
-    (activeTab === 'Background' && !activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab);
+    (activeTab === 'Home' && activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab) ||
+    (activeTab === 'Muted' && !activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab);
 
   const activeTopLevelThreadIsInChatList = useIsThreadInChatList(
     activeTopLevelThreadInfo,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     const prevActiveThreadID = prevActiveThreadIDRef.current;
     prevActiveThreadIDRef.current = activeThreadID;
     if (activeThreadID !== prevActiveThreadID && shouldChangeTab) {
-      setActiveTab(activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab ? 'Focus' : 'Background');
+      setActiveTab(activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab ? 'Home' : 'Muted');
     }
   }, [activeThreadID, shouldChangeTab, activeTopLevelThreadIsFromHomeTab]);
 
@@ -178,9 +178,7 @@
     viewerID,
   );
   const threadFilter =
-    activeTab === 'Background'
-      ? threadInBackgroundChatList
-      : threadInHomeChatList;
+    activeTab === 'Muted' ? threadInBackgroundChatList : threadInHomeChatList;
   const chatListDataWithoutFilter = getThreadListSearchResults(
     chatListData,
     searchText,