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#Your inbox

Open Messages to see your conversations, with pinned chats first. Switch between All and Unread, search people or messages, or start a New message with someone in your circle. Message requests and archived conversations have their own places, so your inbox stays tidy.

#Who can message you

You can message people you are connected with, or who have accepted your message request. Anyone else arrives as a request first, and nothing reaches your inbox until you accept.

For each request you can Accept and reply, Decline, Block, Report or View profile. Accepting a request lets you talk; it does not add the person to your circle.

#In a conversation

• Reply to a specific message, or react with Love, Celebrate, Helpful, Smile or Thinking.
• Edit your own message. Edited messages are marked as edited.
• Save a message to find it later, or hide it just for you.
• Remind me brings a message back in 30 minutes, 3 hours or tomorrow. Reminders appear while Hatch is open.
• Attach a photo or file, or invite the person to a session.
• Search inside the conversation and jump between matches.

#Conversation options

The ⋯ menu in a conversation lets you pin it to the top, mute notifications, mark it as unread, see shared and saved items, change the chat background, archive the conversation, report it or block the person.

#Voice and video

Direct voice and video calls are not available. To talk live, send a session invitation instead: it gives you a proper focus room with simple controls.

#Recent messages on Home

On Home, the Recent messages control shows the latest direct and pod messages at a glance, with the faces of who wrote and how many are new. Open it to reply or jump to the full conversation. Peeking does not mark anything as read.