Marking messages as read
Zulip automatically keeps track of which messages you have and haven't read.
Unread messages have a line along the left side, which fades when the message
gets marked as read.
Zulip offers tools to manually mark one or more messages as read, and you can
configure whether messages are marked as read automatically when you scroll.
You can choose how messages are automatically marked as read in the Zulip web
and mobile apps. You can configure the mobile app differently from the
web/desktop app.
- Always: Messages are marked as read whenever you scroll through them in
the app. You may be used to this from other chat applications.
- Never: Messages are marked as read only
manually. For example, if you often need to
follow up on messages at your computer after reading them in the mobile app,
you can choose this option for the mobile app.
- Only in conversation views: In Zulip, a conversation is a direct
message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a
topic in a channel. This option makes it
convenient to preview new messages in a channel, or skim Combined
feed, and later read each topic in detail.
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Click on the gear () icon in the upper
right corner of the web or desktop app.
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Select Personal settings.
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On the left, click Preferences.
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Under Navigation, click on the Automatically mark messages as
read dropdown, and select Always, Never or Only in
conversation views.
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Tap your profile picture in the bottom right corner of the app.
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Tap Settings.
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Tap Mark messages as read on scroll.
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Select Always, Never or Only in
conversation views.
Mark a message as read
Mark all messages as read
You can manually mark all messages as read, or mark all messages in a
channel or topic as read.
- Via left sidebar
- Via inbox view
- Via recent conversations
- Mobile
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Hover over a channel, topic, or your home view
in the left sidebar.
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Click on the ellipsis ().
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Click Mark all messages as read.
You can also mark all messages in your current view as read by
jumping to the bottom with the Scroll to bottom
() button or the End shortcut.
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Click on Inbox
(or if the views
section is collapsed) in the left sidebar,
or use the Shift + I keyboard shortcut.
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Hover over a channel or topic in the left sidebar.
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Click on the ellipsis ().
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Click Mark all messages as read.
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Click on Recent conversations
(or if the views
section is collapsed) in the left sidebar,
or use the T keyboard shortcut.
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Click on an unread messages counter in the Topic column to mark all
messages in that topic as read.
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Tap a channel, topic, or the Combined feed
(
)
tab.
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Tap Mark channel as read, Mark topic as read, or Mark all as read
near the top right corner of the app.
You can also press and hold a topic until the long-press menu appears, and
select Mark topic as read.
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