# Mark chat as unread \[duplicate\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Proposal\ **Tags:** user-interface\ **Created:** [August 29, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077 "2025-08-29T06:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/1 "2025-08-29T06:47:04Z")
It would be very useful to be able to mark one or more chat as unread, after having opened them. On the drop -down menu, however, I find only the option “mark as read”. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/2 "2025-08-29T18:26:19Z")
Hello, Polin79! You seem to have blanked your post. Would you like this topic deleted? ---
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/3 "2025-08-29T19:54:44Z")
Hi Minim, Sorry there was a mistake: now it’s OK. Thanks Paolo ---
**Author:** ![9er](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/9er/32/2678_2.png) [@9er](https://support.delta.chat/u/9er)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/4 "2025-08-29T20:58:04Z")
There are unread messages counter and ‘down’ button - isn’t that enough? ---
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/5 "2025-08-29T21:55:06Z")
If I opened a chat and for example the text is too long and I want to put the chat in unread state to remind me to read later I think it’s good. In Telegram and Whatsapp I could do that ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/6 "2025-08-30T14:00:54Z")
Oh, you want a pseudo “up” button; marking something you have read as unread. I can see the use of that. You could also save a message to saved chats, but that isn’t the same. So in your original post, where you say “read” I think you mean “unread”. Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/7 "2025-08-30T17:07:30Z")
Yes, I mean for example when I receive a message in a chat I open the chat and I see that the message is too long and I don’t have time to read it and I want to read it later, so I put it in unread state ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/8 "2025-09-01T14:32:57Z")
Okay, I’ve retitled the thread (feel free to change the title again if you want). Manually setting the read status of a message from “read” to “unread” is a fairly unobjectionable functionality, and I should think it might well get added to a future version (you will get a notification if this thread is marked “solved”). Unfortunately, the devs are rather short on resources at the moment, and they are trying to do a lot. ---
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/9 "2025-09-01T14:51:31Z")
Perfect, many thanks ---
**Author:** ![Simon](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://support.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/10 "2025-09-02T22:09:51Z")
existing feature proposal about marking chats as unread: [Mark Chat as Unread](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread/497) ---
**Author:** ![user8525](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@user8525](https://support.delta.chat/u/user8525)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/11 "2025-10-03T16:30:44Z")
Oh yes, I’m missing this feature a lot every day! Can’t wait to see an update here and would even add to a crowdfunding for such a feature if it’s “only” a question of dev resources. ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/12 "2025-10-04T19:12:08Z")
I don’t know how much effort it would take, but some of the people on the forum would know better. There are multiple [donation methods here](https://delta.chat/donate) (with much lower fees than your average crowdfunding site); the devs might be okay with earmarked donations, if agreed upon in advance. ---
**Author:** ![user8525](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@user8525](https://support.delta.chat/u/user8525)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/13 "2025-10-04T23:10:58Z")
Good. What can be done or has already been done with regard to such agreements on this or other issues? I would be grateful for references to relevant information. ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/14 "2025-10-06T19:28:11Z")
I do not know of any such arrangement in the past, whence my subjunctive phrasing in both paragraphs. 🙂 @adbenitez, I know you’re involved in developing new features. Can you tell User8525 if their desire to sponsor a feature is at all practical? ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/15 "2026-03-16T08:24:12Z")
this post is a duplicate of [Mark Chat as Unread](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread/497) - but, anyways, good news: there is some progress on that feature, see [Mark Chat as Unread - #18 by r10s](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread/497/18) ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/16 "2026-10-03T13:13:36Z")
yeah! meanwhile, the feature is rolled out. it is available at places you would expect it to be: ![Screenshot 2026-10-03 at 15.10.59](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/3/35275d4873928e8251491e8060d11d0767994449.png) ![Screenshot 2026-10-03 at 15.07.42](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9d2070a8731e17ac537d581999a49c72758d2925.png) ![IMG_2713](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9b27e10ab06af993c00ba10c49b622dc1a9c85c0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ian](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/ian/32/3164_2.png) [@ian](https://support.delta.chat/u/ian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/17 "2026-10-03T14:09:21Z")
I’d say almost. The _title_ of the issue implies something else: “Mark _messages_ as unread”. To implement this feature, you would have to click … on a single message and select unread, and it would reset the unread marker to that message, close the chat and mark the chat as unread. You would then have the opportunity to continue reading from **that** point on. The body of the issue did not describe this sufficiently. Should I open a separate one about this then? ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/18 "2026-10-03T22:14:00Z")
if marking a single message as unread is _really_ the gist of the original author and they still think it makes a lot of sense, they’d come back ---
**Author:** ![polin79](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@polin79](https://support.delta.chat/u/polin79)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/19 "2026-10-03T22:17:27Z")
Yes, now it’s perfect ---
**Author:** ![system](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/1X/d435ee2a3c515521f06387caee1b32a67e183f89.jpg) [@system](https://support.delta.chat/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/mark-chat-as-unread-duplicate/4077/20 "2026-10-10T22:17:59Z")
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