Mute, pin, archive, and disappearing messages
Quiet a noisy thread, keep an important one on top, tuck one away, or set messages to clear themselves.
Open any conversation and tap its name or info button for these controls:
- Mute: silence a thread's notifications without leaving it. Someone @mentioning you still gets through.
- Pin the conversation: keep up to five important ones at the top of your inbox.
- Archive: tuck a conversation out of the inbox. It comes back the moment there's a new message.
- Disappearing messages: set new messages to clear themselves after 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. Anyone in the thread can turn it on, and a small banner shows when it's on.
You can also save any message to your own Saved list from its actions, so the address or the time you agreed on is easy to find later.
Pin a message
A pinned message sits in a banner at the top of the chat for everyone in it, so the address or the plan stays in view. Long press a message (or a poll) and choose Pin. Tap the banner to step through the pins, or open the full list from the banner or from Pinned messages in the chat's info.
Who can pin depends on the chat: either of you in a direct message, the group's managers in a group thread, the hosts in an event chat, the organizers in a trip chat, and the managers in a Space's chat.
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