Any guesses on how I can clear these messages? I can confirm they’re not in a group inbox (when I select the dropdown, none of the groups have unread messages). [CleanShot 2026-09-25 at 10.46.08] These have slowly accumulated, and one of those “I’ll deal with it later” things. Not a blocker, but …

do you have any unread replies in bot chats? those were recently filtered out of the main inbox so maybe the count wasn’t included searching for in:messages in:unseen might help but I don’t think that’s 1:1 with the count

It was this! Thankfully, I tagged all these bot chats, and I was able to view them in the standard inbox view: [CleanShot 2026-09-25 at 14.05.20] Because otherwise you lose that visibility in the current Bot Chat view: [CleanShot 2026-09-25 at 14.06.31] Thanks, Kris!

Oh good! we should look into filtering those out of the unread count to avoid this.

That would be appreciated! I whittled my unreads from 49 to 2 by reviewing bot chats. Still have to find 2 unreads to open somewhere, haha.

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putty (putty) September 25, 2026, 6:07pm 3

It was this! Thankfully, I tagged all these bot chats, and I was able to view them in the standard inbox view:

Because otherwise you lose that visibility in the current Bot Chat view:

Thanks, Kris!

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