Pinning a text message on your phone is a great way to keep your most important text conversations on your radar. By pinning a text, you’re essentially adding it to a priority spot at the top of your other messages so it is always easy to access. Here’s how to pin and unpin text messages on your iPhone.
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Go to your text messages, then press and hold someone’s name. This will appear:
Select “Pin.”
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When you pin a text convo it will appear at the very top of your text messages like this:
So you will no longer need to scroll through all of your messages to find the person you want to text.
I think of pinning messages akin to adding someone’s number to your favorites list. Both are quick ways to find the person you want to get in touch with via text message or call.
To unpin a text, navigate to your pinned messages. Select and hold until the menu pops up again and choose “Unpin.”
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Now you know how to pin and unpin text messages!
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Pinned messages allow users to highlight important messages, make announcements, or temporarily promote content. Pinning a message is, by default, restricted to certain user roles, but this is flexible. Each channel can have multiple pinned messages and these can be created or updated with or without an expiration.
Pin and unpin a message
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An existing message can be updated to be pinned or unpinned by using the .pinMessage and .unpinMessage methods. Or a new message can be pinned when it is sent by setting the pinned and pin_expires fields when using channel.sendMessage.
pinned | boolean | Indicates whether the message is pinned or not | false | ✓ |
pinned_at | string | Date when the message got pinned | - | ✓ |
pin_expires | string | Date when the message pin expires. An empty value means that message does not expire | null | ✓ |
pinned_by | User | The user that pinned the message | - | ✓ |
Retrieve pinned messages
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You can easily retrieve the last 10 pinned messages from the channel.pinned_messages field:
Paginate over all pinned messages
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Stream Chat also provides dedicated endpoint for pinned messages of the channel which can be used to retrieve all pinned messages page by page: