| 1 | 🤖 Replying and starting a thread are now two separate things, and you choose |
| 2 | which one you want. **Reply** quotes the exact message you tapped and stays in |
| 3 | the chat, the way it always has — reply to a reply and it simply stacks in the |
| 4 | conversation. **Reply in thread** starts (or continues) a thread hanging off |
| 5 | that message: those replies live in the thread, and the chat shows just an |
| 6 | "N Replies" tally under the original message. Nothing gets pulled into a |
| 7 | thread by accident any more — a thread exists only because someone chose to |
| 8 | start one. Replies you made before this all count as plain replies, so they |
| 9 | stay in the chat exactly where they are. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | "Reply in thread" sits next to "Reply" in the message menu, and on a computer |
| 12 | it's a button on the message itself: hover any message and it's beside the |
| 13 | reply arrow, drawn as two speech bubbles so the two are easy to tell apart. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | A thread reads as a small chat of its own: the message it's about is simply |
| 16 | the first message in it, with the replies underneath, all scrolling together. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | And a conversation that already got long in the chat can be moved into one. |
| 19 | Pick **Convert to thread** on the message a reply chain hangs off, and the |
| 20 | whole chain tucks itself into a thread on that message — everyone sees it |
| 21 | there instead of strung down the chat, with the usual "N Replies" tally left |
| 22 | in its place. It's offered only where there's actually a chain to move, and |
| 23 | it's one-way, so it asks first. This is how the conversations you had before |
| 24 | threads existed become threads. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Threads now open beside the chat on a desktop-sized screen instead of over it. |
| 27 | Tap a message's "N Replies" tally and the thread docks as a column on the |
| 28 | right, with its own reply box at the bottom — so you can follow the main |
| 29 | conversation and the thread at the same time. While a thread is open you'll |
| 30 | find it under the ▤ Views button in the header — and that same menu now has a |
| 31 | "Threads" row listing every thread in the chat, most recently active first, so |
| 32 | a thread you missed the notification for is one tap away instead of a scroll |
| 33 | back through the conversation. On a phone the thread still |
| 34 | lifts over the chat the way it always has. Tapping the quote card above a |
| 35 | plain reply jumps you to the message it's quoting; a search hit or link to a |
| 36 | reply made in a thread opens that thread for you. |
| 37 | |
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