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Conversation history settings

These settings control how messages appear in your conversation feed. All of them live under Profile Menu → Settings → Conversation History.

Conversation history settings

Managing longer messages​

Long messages can be cumbersome to scan, so you can control how much of them you see.

  1. Go to Profile Menu → Settings → Conversation History.
  2. Under Show only…, select the character count for message previews.
  3. Optionally, toggle on Don't compress text messages.

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AI summaries for longer messages​

By default, every message longer than 100 characters gets an instant AI summary, so you can grasp the main points without reading the full text. Tap the expanding arrows on a message to read the full transcript, or tap to listen.

To turn AI summaries off across all conversations:

  1. Go to Profile Menu → Settings → Conversation History.
  2. Toggle off Show AI Summaries by default.

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What tapping a message does​

It used to be easy to start playback by accident. You can now choose what tapping a message card does, under Message Tap Action:

  • Play Message — tapping a text or audio message plays it.
  • Open Message — tapping opens message details instead. Text messages can be played from inside, and Play All still catches you up on everything unread.
  • Do Nothing — tapping the body does nothing. Swipe right to left to open the message, or use the play button.

Audio messages carry a play button in the lower left whichever option you choose, so there's always somewhere deliberate to tap.

Clearing unread messages automatically​

You can decide how and when unread messages clear from your conversation feed, either manually for more control, or automatically to keep the feed tidy.

  1. Go to Profile Menu → Settings → Conversation History.
  2. Find Automatically Clear Notifications from Conversation Feed after….
  3. Choose a time frame, from never clearing automatically through to various intervals.

If you choose anything other than Never, an unread message clears once you've spent that much time on it.

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