# Ability to mark private messages as unread

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [22 Settembre 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320 "2014-09-22T11:44:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [6 Giugno 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-mark-private-messages-as-unread/20320/10 "2019-06-06T06:10:15Z")

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This is now doable if you enable defer per `Enable defer to mark topics unread`

In your user profile in the interface section `/my/preferences/interface`

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/6/865681b556f2bd1d700fdacdd8837cf0676fb76e.png)

This works perfectly with both messages and topics.

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